I got diagnosed with ADHD as an adult. And my doc first recommended atomoxetine saying it's safer than stimulants.

But then some things went wrong in my personal life and I went back to doc, he ran some cardiac tests and finally gave me methylphenidate. Been taking it for 4 days now but I am not sure if anything is happening.

I've read it changing lives of other ADHDers and I had a lot of hope especially on the stimulant. But so far I don't feel it doing anything. I am even taking atomoxetine too as the doc said.

What should I do?

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I got sick so bad I went from 220 pounds to 170 in five weeks. I had to look deep in to the drug records to find it. There was a very rare side effect that was below the threshold for reporting. It only occured in two people inthe trails. I finally found a forum where just two other people had this side effect. By that time I was on week four convinced I was going to die. They said their symptoms started to go away after the sixth week. Sure enough I finally could stand without throwing up and had a appetite in the sixth week of that hell.

The symptoms were persistent 24/7 nausea accompanied by dry heaves when I stood up.
No apetite at all. I had to force food down and if it was more complex than a cracker it came straight back up. This went on for six weeks. I went ten years before I nerved up enough to try another non stimulant ADHD med.

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