ANYONE HAS ZOLOFT +DEXEDRINECOMBO?

[Hopefullymoon]

Hi everyone!

My doctor thinks I could try dexedrine, and stop the adderall I've been on for the past 4 months.

I'm so sleepy nomatter what or when I take the meds.

Would love to hear your experiences !

[BlessedLady]

A friend of mine tried Ritalin and Adderall when she was first diagnosed at age 45. But she needed more help. She tried Dexedrine Spansules 15 mg and still needed more help. Finally Dextroamphetamine 10 mg was the right fit for her. It can take a while to find the right medication or combination of medications.

[Hominid711]

You need to tell doses. It matters if I eat a cake a week or one per day. At least over a lifetime. Have a look on the box and memorise the exact milligrams or micrograms and how often per day.

Make it a habit as you enter old age with many more drugs and weird names to come. It can be lifesaving to remember as you lie gasping for breath on the golf course or next to your knitting buddies. They won't know how to help, just nudge you with their putters or try to stick their needles into your trachea, but if you are fortunate enough for someone to remember 911 the paramedic might. And better if you know your doses, just like it is to know if you have low BP or high or that you've taken your meds 7 times today because you missed to take them on holiday last week.

Memorising names and numbers is also good to slow down dementia. And of course of more use than Sudoku.

I'm on Vyvanse 70mg and I went up there quickly as I wanted to see how much I'd get out of the drug without side effects.

I selected from the leaflets which ones would turn me into a different life form and which ones I personally wouldn't like much.

I wasn't afraid of the serious ones as I knew statistically I'd more likely choke to death even on the only-weekly cake from earlier.

And whether I'd get that tic or not, really, it might even get me a seat on the bus.

It's all in the outlook.

To be fair, I have a longstanding professional background in pharmaceutical risk interpretation and science, plenty in human behaviour and behaviour altering factors coupled with a special interest in speculative evolution and the sci fi/horror subgenre of body horror so my threshold for the tolerable is probably different from yours.

But I must say I feel well. Zzzz Zzzz Zzzzzzz.

I'm also on Effexor. Same with dosing and happy enough on 300mg which I worked out gives me the approximate amount of SRI as my previous SSRI. I always like to try new drugs designed to make me better but also with an eye for what has worked well before. Caution is good but when deciding how much one should exercise one usually excludes variability in human perception, beliefs and knowledge, and of course also in scientifically validated biological effect. Also, most hysteria around side effects is based on historical examples and the media's shameless, yet understable (because profitable) nurturing of our anxiety, and is given food and water as we live in times with less existential worries for most of us.

And by Netflix!

So we tend to worry a great deal about the meds but we also mistrust science and/or our doctors.

We think they are all in cahoots with the devil - the pharmaceutical industry.

Honestly, they couldn't care less.

The drug that gets - and keeps - you out of the waiting room and them out of the courtroom is the one they will likely prescribe. And lots of it.

I must know.

I'd always go with a specialist - no second opinions, that would be my anxiety talking, unless I have a feeling of serious dodginess.

I like the coffee that comes with the good ones on the rare occasions I go private.

But then you've done your all to minimise the risk. Then it's down to you. Nobody says it's that easy:

Be nice to the man/woman and you will be treated as an equal. And don't think because they have to be nice no matter how you treat them they don't keep some thoughts from you. Or a plan for sometime from now.

Besides this you have every reason to be fearless, open and optimistic. They aren't stupid. They really hate any patient-related hassle and the courts and won't antagonise you.

Another experience: not being afraid of the higher end of recommended doses I've so far fared well. There is a loooooong way to toxic.

Let science be your thing. Read or listen more. Worry less. And look up primates and the palaeolithic and you get a feel for our ancestral fears.

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[Gettingittogether in reply to Hominid711]

Nothing at all odd about that combination (Zoloft & Dexedrine). Your doc's recommendation sounds quite logical to me. Dexedrine is similar to Adderall, but lots of people react much better to one of those vs the other .