Posted by Helena24 on February 2, 2010, at 12:58:09
In reply to Re: Vyvanse 30mg, not pleasant... » Helena24, posted by floatingbridge on February 1, 2010, at 19:08:09
@ floatingbridge:
I suffered all my life with undiagnosed add and depression.
In my country,Greece,it's impossible to get meds like Dexedrine,Ritalin is almost never prescribed to children or adults.
There is only one uneversity-clinic in whole Greece,that prescribes Concerta to a small number of adults.From my early twenties I went from doctor to doctor and there wasn't even the possibility to get drugs like desipramine or bupropion at that time.
After many years and out of dead dispair,I purchased Ritalin over the internet illegally.This was about 4 years ago.
I never took it continuosly over 2-3 weeks and in summary not more then 3 months.
Then they started to send me placebos and I spend nearly 1000 Euro's out of dispair and need to get the real stuff.Then I gave up.The real Ritalin worked like a miracal drug for me.
It wiped away all my add-symptoms and depression at once.
Only at the evenings I became a little moody but that was nothing to my ''baseline-situation''.
I'm sorry I can't give you any info's on long term efficacy.About a year ago I finally found a doctor who prescribed me Concerta.
I took it for a month or so.
I made me depressed and was much less effective than Ritalin.
I think it made my add even worse.
I wanted to add an antidepressant to help with the worsening of my depression and agitation due to Concerta,but the doc said that he only prescribes it as a single medication and doesn't want to deal with the responsibility to prescribe it in combination.
There wasn't any kind of doctor-patient trusting relationship,because I lived in another city and had to take a long journey to see the doctor.Sorry that I write so much...I want to send a massage how bad the situation is here for adult ADD-sufferes.
Sorry that I'm a bit out of topic.
This issue makes me very emotional.
To have this condition makes me suffer so much!
To KNOW that there are drugs that could make my live worthy of living and I can't have them because of stupid european laws and greek doctors' mentality drives me almost nuts!I take modafinil now with tianeptine and benzos,wich make my situation somewhat bearable...
I was reading an article that said the company that produces Vyvanse tries to get approval in Europe.I hope we will have it someday here in Greece,but I'm pessimistic for my personal situation since I'm already in my early thirties,and when it gets approved in Greece,after ten years or so,no doctor will prescribe it to me...to risky,to old,heart risk,bla bla,you know...
I'm sorry for the essay...
Helena
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