This afternoon I have my next appointment with my family physician, a follow up to my initial prescription of Strattera at the starting dose of 10mg daily.
I hope it goes well. And by well, I hope he increases my dose and carefully listens to my feedback and observations. I will keep them short, as follows:
My side-effects with Strattera have been tolerable. Dry mouth, which I have remedied with sipping on water. Brilliant, eh? And constipation, which I remedied with Metamucil (non-soluble fiber), and finally with Lactalose, a synthetically combined galactose-sucrose sugar in a syrupy form which acts as a laxative. I used that once and it worked well. I'm now back and regular and my insides are operating smoothly. You may now all cheer in unison.
Go ahead.
Please, cheer - I'll wait for a minute.
Okay, thanks - that was great!
My positive effects in the short time I've been taking it - as far as I can deduce - have been subtle and mild: working memory improvements (staying on task, returning to task, less forgetting and misplacing), I am calmer around people - but this might be the clonazepam or maybe less anxiety because I am not forgetting stuff and misplacing stuff and able to get things done and am not anticipating bad outcomes from it all). Also, I think I have been more productive (appropriately so) and less perseverative and hyperfocused on inappropriate tasks - i.e. better sense of priorities.
He'll either understand or he won't. Hope he does.
Cheers,
Mungo
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