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<blockquote data-quote="GoingNorth" data-source="post: 685701" data-attributes="member: 1963"><p>I don't know much about ADHD drugs personally. I've taken both Strattera and Ritalin; both of which were a really bad idea for me.</p><p></p><p>My husband took Ritalin as soon as he got out of the Army, but he took it on an as-needed basis, not on a schedule, and went off of it once he became ill enough that maintaining weight became a big problem for him.</p><p></p><p>He was naturally very thin to start with, but very heavily boned, and when he was on Ritalin,he just didn't eat-period. Then, when it wore off, he'd eat the refrigerator, and be VERY cranky until he got a massive jolt of caffeine into him.</p><p></p><p>So, we dealt with the appetite suppression aspect of stims, but hubs was in his thirties when he started on Ritalin, so growth suppression wasn't an issue.</p><p></p><p>The interference with appetite and growth in kids on stims really worries me. I wonder what sort of long term damage is being done by these drugs as we are now finding that the brain doesn't finish maturing until somewhere in the late 20s.</p><p></p><p>We know that daily recreational use/abuse of stims causes CNS and cardiac toxicity. What about medical use???</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GoingNorth, post: 685701, member: 1963"] I don't know much about ADHD drugs personally. I've taken both Strattera and Ritalin; both of which were a really bad idea for me. My husband took Ritalin as soon as he got out of the Army, but he took it on an as-needed basis, not on a schedule, and went off of it once he became ill enough that maintaining weight became a big problem for him. He was naturally very thin to start with, but very heavily boned, and when he was on Ritalin,he just didn't eat-period. Then, when it wore off, he'd eat the refrigerator, and be VERY cranky until he got a massive jolt of caffeine into him. So, we dealt with the appetite suppression aspect of stims, but hubs was in his thirties when he started on Ritalin, so growth suppression wasn't an issue. The interference with appetite and growth in kids on stims really worries me. I wonder what sort of long term damage is being done by these drugs as we are now finding that the brain doesn't finish maturing until somewhere in the late 20s. We know that daily recreational use/abuse of stims causes CNS and cardiac toxicity. What about medical use??? [/QUOTE]
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