u/locnesshatthief

Had to stop taking because it was causing alopecia type symptoms. The good effects were really good with some other less ideal symptoms. I stopped taking the medication and slowly lost the ability to speak coherently. I swear I’ve always been well spoken w decent vocab but have noticed I’m starting to fumble on my words way more than usual. Has this happened to anyone else?? Is my brain deteriorating 😂

26m. No signs of hair loss before medication. I’ve experienced a decent amount of weird symptoms with these meds but have still been screaming about how effective it’s been from the rooftops. That ends today. I noticed circle shaped hair loss that made me think I developed alopecia. Lo and behold there’s a rare connection between these meds and developing alopecia type symptoms. Meds were really helping me at my new job and I’m kinda blown that I have to stop taking the meds because I know it’ll take me a while to figure out an alternative. Just sharing my experience because noticing the hair loss made me spiral a bit so hopefully this can help someone out in the future. The fight continues…

Hopefully this can help someone out in their journey. I didn’t believe this shit would help at all and to be fair it does take a while but I couldn’t be more glad I stayed the course. There were a lot of times where the symptoms that came with it almost deterred me from continuing. No benefits for a while and just brutal fucking side effects. They don’t all completely go away I’m not going to lie, this isn’t an advertisement. But I’d be lying if I said that this medicine was not completely changing my life.

I’ve taken stimulants non prescribed before and I can’t speak much on the continued use of that but hopefully people that use such meds are also seeing the positive changes in their life that they are looking for.

When it first starts working it’s hard to sense but you really have to lean in to it and not fight yourself if that makes any sense. It can quiet your head down consistently without fail to a point where you can truly do whatever you want. You just have to really put your best foot forward and believe in yourself. I am able to focus for way longer and it’s noticeable. Am also taking some other vitamins as well and I’d assume those are also helping magnify this effect. I have been pretty diligent with taking the meds and vitamins so far and everything else is kinda just taking care of itself.

This is not a post to brag or say look at me. I just struggled w ADHD for a while without knowing I had it and I finally feel like I’m making real progress. Long story short even if strattera is not for you, find your thing. Trial and error is the key to a lot in life so keep trying. The more you experiment to find something that works the better off you’ll be. You will thank yourself for it later. Godspeed