Although it's structural differences aren't completely definitive, it's likely that plays a role in understanding this as well.It also may give us some insight into it's side effects as well. Also known as Atomoxetine.
My doc started me low and we worked up to 40mg. Weekly threads to plan and notice the positive in our lives. If it did antidepressants would work immediately. 3 years ago. To that, I will be completely honest, I have no idea myself. Dopamine transmission is what is responsible for motivation and rewarding behavior as all of us know, and stimulants make us high by increasing that transmission. Dosing of children and adolescents up to 70 kg body weight STRATTERA should be initiated at a total daily dose of approximately 0.5 mg/kg and increased after a minimum of 3 days to a target total daily dose of approximately 1.2 mg/kg administered either as a single daily dose in the morning or as evenly divided doses in the morning and late afternoon/early evening.
No additional benefit has been demonstrated for doses higher than 1.2 mg/kg/day [see Clinical Studies (14)]. (I'm 5'3 and 100lbs … It's most prominent use is as a treatment for ADHD though it differs greatly from many conventional medications.
A week ago I started with Strattera at 18mg (23 year old male, 55kg/121.2 pounds).
After all: "prohibition kills, education saves lives".Press J to jump to the feed.
Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts So, Strattera. Atomoxetine targets norepinephrine directly, but doing so possibly also over time makes changes to the dopamine levels.New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be castThis SubReddit was created in an attempt to combat the worrying amount of drug-related questions and misinformation on the internet.
An increase primarily in norepinephrine transmission has been shown to cause many adverse psychological effects, such as anxiety and dysphoria, along with it's physical side effects at higher levels such as an increase in blood pressure and heart rate. Increased serotonin does not itself relieve depression. Dosing of children and ad… I started breaking out a lot more with acne on my face and im not sure if it's from strattera. Currently on only 60 mg and not seeing much of a change. Hello r/ADHD,.
Atomoxetine for about 30%. Over the course of 4 weeks, doctor had me slowly ramp the dosage up. For reference I’m 170 pounds 5’11 male.
The fact that Strattera doesn't do it's work on this is near certainly the reason it's effectively useless in achieving any high. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts So, Strattera. It may be that both need to be targeted and in just the right parts of the brain. (Especially) when drugs/substances are involved, it's vital to provide reliable information. Those of you who don't know it, that's perfectly understandable and you're missing absolutely nothing. Although from what I've read it is both norepinephrine and dopamine that are implicated in ADHD. A somewhat infamous drug out there that is only spoken of in reference to it's lack of quality and at times lack of good experiences as well. This drug's effects and pharmacology makes it debatable as to if it can even be called a stimulant. Those of you who do know it, don't bother trying it as again you're missing absolutely nothing. I speak from personal experience when in itself it is possible to build a tolerance to Atomoxetine, and although I'm definitely no doctor I believe that this deduction has some merit.I hope this was informative to you all, and I will see you all around potentially. Oddly enough, Strattera, or Atomoxetine as mentioned earlier, bears more similarity to some antidepressants (serotonin reuptake inhibitors) rather than conventional stimulants.
Many of our 900k+ users express they 'feel at home' and 'finally found a place where people understand them'.Press J to jump to the feed. I had a horrible experience with Strattera. Sorry, this post was deleted by the person who originally posted it.It doesn't appear in any feeds, and anyone with a direct link to it will see a message like this one.A place where people with ADHD and their loved ones can interact with each other exchanging stories, struggles, and non-medication strategies. Also known as Atomoxetine.
Excuse me if I made this sound excessively formal and all; if this tone has me coming off as theatrical, well, you're not wrong, but I also don't really know what other tone to put this in.On a second note, I was thinking of putting out my own experience with Strattera here since I've been on it for years in a second post (all this is already enough of a textwall on it's own), but I wanted to know if you all were interested beforehand so I started with this.Share your thoughts in the comments if you'd like, I'm curious to see what y'all to say on this!Stimulants work for about 80% of people with ADHD that take them. It's been shown to be On a second note, despite Atomoxetine's many differences from conventional stimulants, I believe it possible that it can prompt an individual to build cross-tolerance with Amphetamine and it's cousins, as both are metabolized primarily by the enzyme CYP2D6. I havent changed my diet much but since starting my face has been non stop breaking out. Atomoxetine is probably the same. Everything was fine at first, I felt the ease in elaborating my thoughts immediately, the calmness, the increase attentiveness. These side effects have been experienced by many even at therapeutic doses.There is also the question of it's chemical structure, which may offer additional insight. Though, despite all of this bad rep there is very little common understanding of how the drug itself works, and why exactly it's just so To start, I believe it best to explain the pharmacodynamics (fancy way of saying mechanism of action) of it.
Those of you who do know it, don't bother trying it as again you're missing absolutely nothing.