ATOMOXETINE vs CLONIDINE

For the first time in years I sat down, sorted through and cleared out all the old unread emails in my inbox. It took me about 2 hours and it felt great. Sorting through things that I know I should do but will leave for another time has always been a big problem for me so it was great to do that and

They snooped through my bag while I was visiting and found my atomoxetine. They obviously googled what it was. They think I’m just a lazy and irresponsible person and I should just stop and be a normal person and stop taking “unhealthy western meds” (I’m Asian). Honestly I don’t have the energy to e

* Since graduating 2.5 years ago, I’ve had 4 jobs as a frontend developer. * Every single time I’ve been fired, it’s the same reasons: delays, missed attention to detail, work needing multiple QA passes before it’s acceptable. * I joined my current company in December. In January, I started medicati

Phone call with a doctor a couple weeks ago. Literally broke down. "Sorry, we can't even consider the depression talk because you're on Atomoxetine." I cave in and ring my specialist, she has a history of shrugging me off but she actually walked me through the depression checklist, I show up as depr

I recently got diagnosed with ADHD. Doc gives me atomoxetine great. I can think before speaking. It's wild there's this pause before I blurt out what I'm about to angrily say. Eye contact feels less intense. There's no constant monitoring of yourself in environments. There's no constant thought cyc

I’m an Asian woman about to turn 30, recently diagnosed with ADHD. Growing up, I was called “lazy” and “irresponsible” because I was always late and procrastinated. My parents don’t believe in ADHD—they think I just lack discipline. Right now, I’m living with them, working part-time, and barely have

Yesterday my psychiatrist prescribed me a new medication for my ADHD, Atomoxetine. He told me it was hard to find, so I started my pharmacy run to see if I could find it. I managed to find a pharmacy that ordered it for me. After I payed for it the pharmacist commented that he had never heard of thi

I started strattera last Friday. It caused me to have intense dreams, except when I woke up I was stuck in the same state. It started two days ago, I woke up dizzy and confused. I accidentally ended up scraping my car on a large curb, but I believed it was from a lack of sleep. Yesterday, I felt ext

Height: 5’10” Weight: 200lbs American White Male Past Medical History: Concussion/GERD/Appendectomy. I was a Paramedic for 3 years during the COVID Pandemic. One day, I finally caught COVID from Christ knows where. Immediately after .. I was having episodes of lightheadedness and tachycardia. One

Below is a summary of my daughter’s past ten days. Our doctors are stumped. Any ideas or suggestions are greatly appreciated. Summary of Past 10 Days – 14-Year-Old Girl Baseline • Previously healthy, no major medical or psychiatric history reported, no drug use, no family history of mental illness,

My father (79 male) has stopped caring for himself. He has ocd, bpd, type 2 diabetes and struggles with depression and pretty severe anxiety. I'm not sure of his dosages, but he is prescribed welbutrin, metformin, valium, and clonidine periodically steals and abuses my brother's aderall and abuses a

19FtM, 5’4, 241lbs, white, USA, 200mg Geodon, 60mg Cymbalta, 0.2mg clonidine, 1200mg gabapentin, 15mg mirtazipine, 300mg lithium, daily testosterone topical gel, Kyleena IUD, 1000mg of Diamox. So I have chronic insomnia. I’m on the mirtazipine and the clonidine for it. For some reason, I became comp

32yr old female. 140lbs, 5’1”. History of anxiety and depression. I was inpatient in 2015 for suicide attempt. I stopped taking my meds when I found out I was pregnant in 2016. It’s weird, around 6/7th month of pregnancy I felt better and after birth I didn’t need meds. I felt better. I had a marita

One of my patient's is using clonidine to help with methadone withdrawal, didn't know that. I want to try and make this a weekly/semi-weekly thing to increase interest in this subreddit. Any thoughts?

Working in poison control, children getting into clonidine is not uncommon. It's sometimes around grandma's house or an older sibling has a Rx for ADHD. Usually the kid is drowsy for several hours or some bradycardia develops, but I've fortunately not had to deal with too many cases requiring intuba