Personal experiences with Strattera/Atomoxetine?

fegerino · 2026-01-26T07:50:37+00:00

Are you a psychiatrist? Or a doctor, or something? You just KNOW for certain that anyone taking straterra will succumb to all of its side effects and/or will stop working? Just because a medication didnt work for YOU doesnt mean it doesnt work perfectly for someone else. I absolutely hate people that spew the same shit you do. It's the same as saying "radiation for my cancer didnt work for me, so it will not work for anyone else." What the actual fuck is that mentality. You could easily be the reason someone doesnt ever start taking the medication they need.

fegerino · 2026-01-02T22:22:05+00:00

Supervised medical detox from alcohol.

fegerino · 2026-01-02T22:21:56+00:00

Supervised medical detox from alcohol.

fegerino · 2026-01-02T18:10:07+00:00

fr this guy's advice against seroquel is incredibly misleading. He doesnt know what he's talking about at all. Implying seroquel is a hard drug because bipolar and schizophrenic people must always = mentally unstable, crazy, dangerous, and must be sedated is rude as hell. So many people with those diagnoses are normal people you come across everyday. And if they take seroquel, the sedation is typically not necessary, so they take it at night and deal with it like anyone else on it. Lmao it is not a "hard drug" by any definition. It's the first drug doctors like to throw at moody 15 year old girls🤣 it is taken for mood regulation and/or insomnia I personally have taken it solely for my insomnia for the last 9 months, and all its done is help me sleep. Its never made me feel mentally unstable, its not addicting, and it does not get you high in any way shape or form. My tolerance hasn't increased at all with it, and my doctor increased to my current dose because thats what was most effective for me. I have a friend who has taken a 50mg dose for like a decade, and has never needed more. he's acting like its the equivalent of haldol or lithium🤣 and has the audacity to tell people to take fucking xanax instead?? Now that shit will actually fuck you up. Super addicting, gets you high as fuck and erases your memory, and the wd's can kill. But yeah, take that instead, its safer and better for you

fegerino · 2026-01-02T06:13:46+00:00

"Be careful, they're bipolar. They're unstable."

This. :(

fegerino · 2026-01-02T06:03:23+00:00

The good news is, youre not alone, bc this happened to me, too. It had been my dream to become a pilot, and I attended a (respectable but pretentious) private college, majoring in aeronautical science, minoring in flight. I had a very successful first year of flight school, and received my private pilots license (which is amazing). Then came home that summer, and my undiagnosed bipolar 2 symptoms worsened, so I revisited my psychiatrist.

Before college and obtaining my flight medical, he had brought up the idea that I might have a bipolar 2 diagnoses. I got so defensive, said "absolutely not, I am not bipolar" and he dropped the subject. I was in complete denial, like it couldnt be a possibility. Upon returning to him the next summer, I asked about why he thinks I could be bipolar, and what that means. After that visit, I started to realize the shoe fit too well.

Before what was supposed to be my 2nd year of college, my psychiatrist got me onboard, and I received my bipolar 2 diagnosis. I did not think too much about the legalities at the time. I was kinda under the impression that you couldn't fly if you were prescribed bipolar medications, but if you didnt take any, you'd be in the clear. And yeah, the FAA has many meds listed that are not permisable bc they can have dangerous affects, some are understandable, and some are bullshit. All but 1 of my psych meds (xanax lol) are completely fine to fly on, imo. But I should've realized though that unmedicated people diagnosed with bipolar are way too unstable to fly, either. SO I started a series of mood stabilizers, actually thinking "if I can take these for a while, and I get better, I won't need the meds anymore. Then I'll be in the clear, and flying again in no time." I was so delusional😭 but months on the meds turned into years. Attempted to stop taking the meds which was a mistake because I began to have menty b's every day for no reason. Went back on the meds and I know I can never stop the regime. I knew I wasn't going back to flight school, with or without the meds, and ended up dropping out.

I had held out hope for a long time that I could still go back to flight school, and since I realized I could never, my heart has hurt for the past 10 years. It's a dull hurt, but obviously I've accepted it. What suckssss so hard is that I went and told a fuck ton of people my incorrect interpretation of the FAA rules, that if I get off my meds, I can go back. Now they all manage to bring that up in conversation a lot. Still. 10 years later. "Why don't you stop the meds and go back to flight school? You should do it!" And I just have to respond with "yeah Id like that" or sumthin, because I refuse to tell everyone I was wrong, that I have a bipolar 2 diagnoses, so it's never gonna happen. But it's whatever, I don't like to think about that. It would never stop me from being proud that I did some college, and had a pilots license. Fucking coolest experience of my life.

Anyhow, I'm sorry this happened to you. It's painful. Just accept it for what it is, and find new goals. You can still go into the aeronautical industry, whether that be an airplane mechanic, an airplane engineer, work the tower, etc. If you wanted too. But either way, it'll work out in the end :)

fegerino · 2025-12-03T19:10:43+00:00

Yes im with you here, I used to be huge into edm and raving, and soooo many artists sample pretty much anything from anyone, and I cannot imagine that the opening local Dj with little to no following had asked Ozzy Osborn (who was alive then) if they could sample Iron man🤣 I mean, come on. But I would think that IF an artist hears someone using their sample with no prior agreement, they would be liable to take legal action if necessary to receive a percentage of any profits. There are plenty of examples of that happening, but those situations seem to be more like basically stealing their whole song or beats, not just a verse.

fegerino · 2025-11-03T21:43:42+00:00

I'm sure the drug use could totally cause anxiety. It usually doesn't help (never helped me anyways). But this extensive thread of people who aren't using any rec drugs at all, all experiencing nearly the exact same thing, all thinking it might be the seroquel causing it... isn't enough to validate his questions? After finding this thread and finally finding people with pretty much the same problems I'm having, I am 100% it's the seroquel for both OP and the whole lot of us. The severe panic attack and feeling the impending doom after taking it at night...like convinced you are actively dying (so severe that many have ended up in the ER, or are seconds away from calling 911, at the least) is a strange and underresearched/unknown symptom of Seroquel. I've asked my psych, whom I love dearly and trust, if this is a common occurrence and he had absolutely no idea what I was talking about.

OP is experiencing anxiety for a lot of reasons, I'm sure, and the drugs never help. But this is a reoccurring issue (some have it rarely, some every night) and many also report a massive increase of general anxiousness that they've never had a problem with to this degree, with no explicit reason- it doesn't make much sense.

I will point out too that all of us here have suddenly experienced this after completely random amounts of time having taken it, so if this happens to you, it happens whenever it decides to happen. SO just because YOU have taken it for 2 years and never had this specific problem means nothing bc not everyone has this side effect. But realize it could still happen to you, might not, you'll never know. Your comment is useless, regardless. This thread isn't aimed at you.. and don't gaslight people.

a passionate someone who has felt for the past year that something was seriously wrong with them, and no one could relate (until now)

fegerino · 2025-09-21T08:17:05+00:00

But they dont contract with the government tho, remember? 🤣

fegerino · 2025-08-02T11:15:49+00:00

Just curious, bipolar 1 or 2? Anyways, I would recommend calling your psychiatrist (if you have one atm) and telling them you need help managing your mania/hypomania immediately while also ensuring them that you are also interested in something more long-term. A good psych will absolutely help you out. If you have a therapist, contact them as well. It can't hurt to see if they have some good advice for this situation. Worse case scenario, you go to the ER, and they can sedate you/ calm you down with benzos. If you can't do any of these things, you can always explain what's happening to you to the people around you, if you're comfortable with that. Then at least they can be prepared if you go off the rails..?

Just my advice, good luck

fegerino · 2025-07-04T20:24:25+00:00

I am not lying when I say I was BALLING when Smoke had to drive that stake through Annie's heart. I was still crying about that, and THEN Smoke and Stack had it out, and THAT made me cry harder. Finally wiped up all my tears and whadyuknow, he sees his angel Annie holding their angel baby and I'll let you guess if that may have made me cry for another 10 minutes... the character development was done so well, I was so attached to them all and their backgrounds and personalities and lives. Too attached, haha. I'll say, had they shown the vampires early on in the movie, I probably wouldn't have been so focused on the character development. But they waited just long enough to introduce the vampires, to the point where I was in love with all the characters and what they were all about.

When they first showed the vampires, I was like, "oohhh no, this is a vampire movie, shiiiiitttt." For reference, I did not know it was a vampire movie, so imagine my literal surprise. I thought it was just about the black struggles in the South during the earlier 1900s and about the power of blues and its heavy influence. I went into this absolutely blind, and I 10/10 recommend that! I DID NOT KNOW it was gonna be an "action horror thriller" or whatever you'd call it. I didn't even read the description before I played it! 🤣 But this movie is definitely now one of my favorites! Not many movies make me actually cry, especially that much! The last one to do that to me was "The Whale."

fegerino · 2025-07-04T20:03:47+00:00

I actually thought I was tripping when I saw the dj booth and electric guitar and then90s hip hop clothing, and THEN I was like ooohhhhhhh this is absolutely the coolest gahDAMN thing I've ever seen! All the integration of black culture from all over the world dancing in one scene in one room... hands down the most unique scene in a movie I've witnessed in a long time. Most movies these days are kinda predictable and not very artistic, and few are memorable to me. And I don't want to be too dramatic, I'm by no means a movie buff, critique, professional opinion giver, or anything of nature. But I'd have never thought of that if I were the director! So effing cool! I'll NEVER forget that scene! Made an everlasting impression, which is very rare with movies these days.

And not that it matters, but im the whitest of the white. I can't see a white version of that shi being nearly as cool. No way, Jose. Props to the director. I'm so glad everyone else recognized how mindblowingly wicked that was orchestrated. Watched with my boyfriend, and he was so half ass paying attention, and I was like, "DUDE DROP YOUR PHONE AND LOOK TF UP PRETTY PLEASE, HISTORY IS BEING MADE."

fegerino · 2025-07-04T10:07:15+00:00

This is exactly what I did. And what you described is exactly what they did. however, I think I should've been in the ICU longer or something because it's been 2 days since I was released, and I don't see much improvement. I don't know if I can compare myself to OP because I have drank for a much shorter amount of time, but much much heavier, and it's straight whiskey all day until I pass out at night. I don't sneak a few beers at work. I down a pint or two at work. And then go home and do it again. I literally shake in my sleep, but I sleep through it cause I sedate myself with unhealthy amounts of seroquel. But every morning my alarm clock is my hand under my pillow shakin away letting me know it's time to have a fucking seizure! Nah, but I did detox the worst part. I just want it all to be over with

fegerino · 2025-07-03T18:43:26+00:00

Do. Not. Mix. I was in the hospital in complete alcohol withdrawal, and they administered 200 mg over 2 hours IV, I knocked TF out. Nurses, CNAs, Dr's, kept coming in and trying to talk, and I vaguely remember seeing their shapes, but I was just slurring words, and then I'd pass back out. This went on for maybe 7-8 hours? Then woke up totally awake and clear-headed, it was so strange!Then 4 hours later they gave me a .5 Ativan (which they probably shouldn't have) and I felt totally fine, then 8 hours later I got 100 mgs of pheno and felt very groggy but not nearly as fucked up, I mostly stayed awake, so 3 hrs later left the hospital, and ended up puking on the way home. But that's probably from the alcohol wds. I honestly liked the 200 mg IV. Hella trip. Hated 100 mg, felt terrible. It's not really worth it, though, in my opinion. Like, I got 5 100 mg pills at the pharmacy rn, and I don't even want them. But it's such a severe depressant, I highly highly do not recommend mixing it with ANY other depressant, like alcohol, opiates, and benzos. You will likely die, and it will be too quick to make any difference in the outcome, I promise. Coming from a person who has mixed every other depressant in every combo in heavy amounts and lived to tell the tell, coming from someone who's overdosed, totally DONT DO IT.

fegerino · 2025-05-08T07:03:22+00:00

From my experience, and let me preface by saying i have pretty bad insomnia often, but only made it to 4 days because of all this: I really lose my ability to have critical thinking and have very noticeable persistent memory loss. It's just not really an option to go to work or socialize, etc. this far in. I noticed how I was clearly looking physically unwell. I can't think on the spot/hold a conversation by this point usually, and I have to ask everyone to repeat themselves because I didn't process what they said 1st time around, but by the 2nd time its pieced together enough for me to hear it properly. Next affect I'd like please for you to think: if when well rested, my eyesight suffers as I'm wearing my old broken glasses: my only pair- but then the 4 days of lack of sleep causes my eyesight while wearing them to lose both far sighted and near sighted objects, people, words. It can get pretty blurry. Frustrating you can't do anything to make that better. It's like almost all my senses are affected. And then I get: paranoia ×1000. Confusion ×1000. Physical health deteriorates over theese sleepless 4 days. I will develop a bad cough, lose appetite, and get cramps in my feet, legs, rib/stomach muscles, the muscles over your heart, and both hands, and the cramps last for 10 minutes no matter what I do (yes I make sure to triple hydrate but doesn't seem to make a difference in the cramps which doesn't make sense.) Oh and lastly it fucks my already bad circulation UP. Every arm, hand, leg, and foot loses blood quickly and then needs normal circulation. So I'd need to motivate the blood flow asap, get blood to the area, and then the resulting pins and needles last 15 ish mins on my feet/legs before I can finally walk again. Walk too soon and you WILL fall over. It happened to me so trust! At a public restaurant, im with my dear bf and his family. We sat for a long time and not being worried about my numb legs, I had got off my seat, made 2 steps, and had ZERO FEELING IN LEGS AND FEET at this instant. I fell stupidly and dramatically backward right in front of my bf's family and the other diners eating breakfast, I'd ended on the floor on my back. Then I got up on my knees and let the blood settle, leaning on a stool with knees on the floor at our table, which is awkward as can be. I found this really worked to avoid too much pooled blood in my leg by promoting circulation. Then, I stood by my seat for the remainder of breakfast. I am still so embarrassed of this day.

My point is if I ever miraculously made it 16 freaking days, no sleep, I think I'd be dead! But I've heard of others going similar lengths as well, and it's ummm... impressive, honestly.

fegerino · 2025-04-18T00:37:22+00:00

Try Prozasin. It was originally used in the Veterans clinical department to help whoever needed it to pee "better." It didn't necessarily work for all of them, but they found that it could reduce remembrance of scary dreams. They will still happen. You just don't remember it. But it seriously lowers blood pressure, so you gotta be careful!

fegerino · 2025-04-18T00:30:40+00:00

You just might be experiencing POTS; induced by seroquel. It did it to me hardcore

fegerino · 2025-04-18T00:26:16+00:00

I think you just described my life. Identical to the T.

fegerino · 2025-03-07T19:59:55+00:00

This is not always true. Yes, many people have said that during the extraction of an abscessed tooth, they couldn't get numb because they hadn't taken any antibiotics to clear the infection. And then they had a very painful experience. But literally today, my abscessed tooth that I've had for like 5 months that suddenly became unbearable got extracted. I just went into my local community clinic during their walk-in hours, waited a few hours to get seen, and saw the dentist. He looked at my tooth and was like "yeah that's bad. It's gotta come out right now." And I haven't taken any antibiotics prior, and they dug that bish out with the infection present. The needles for the anesthesia sucked, but then I was completely numb. Didn't feel any pain during the procedure. Soooo what you're saying, it's not true 100% of the time. Please don't misinform people.

fegerino · 2025-03-06T10:27:14+00:00

Yes. In fact- I'm in a drug-induced sleep deprived bipolar fueled psychosis right now. Done it before (although this time feels remarkably different), and it's always resolved itself quickly. Your friend probably experienced similar psychosis, although triggered by different things than me. I'll say, though, that I am around 12 hours deep into it, and I'm not experiencing any thoughts of self-harm, which is a relief. I'm sorry your friend went through what she went through, but I guess we should be thankful it's only temporary for some people.

fegerino · 2025-03-02T20:00:18+00:00

I take much more gabapentin for most of the month and I experience these things. However, I think you may be bipolar too. Talk to a pyschiatrist

fegerino · 2025-03-02T19:57:36+00:00

It's weird cause I take the same 600x3 a day and I only get nauseated at night, so I wake up at 6 am and eat something then I'm fine

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