does strattara work at all??? I've heard not.

Hi,

Strattera does work for some. Again, each person is different; what works for one person, may not work for another. It's all trial and error- finding the right ADHD medication.

For more information on Strattera, please read our article at http://www.healthcentral.com/sleep-disorders/drug-information-1299-150.html

Terry

Hello,  I hope I'm not butting in, but I am 49 years old and a few years ago I was on Strattera and it worked fantastic!!!  I loved it, but it had one side effect that after awhile I couldn't tolerate - dry mouth.  It was just so bad I couldn't do it anymore.  My nephew took it for a short while, but he didn't want to eat and he had been a big eater before that.  They took him off of it.

My symptoms are total disorganization.  I also am diagnosed with bipolar disorder, but I don't think that is my scatterbrain issue.  I have always had trouble doing one thing at a time.  I'm a great multi-tasker, but I seem to make no progress.  I am a legal secretary and I have many things going at one time.  Here's my problem.  I will start working on something and get an e-mail answering a question I sent the day before and then I will drop what I'm doing and start on the other thing, and so on, and so on.  I do this at home, too.  Carry something to the kitchen see that I need to wash the dishes and start on that then maybe I'll see something I've been looking for and forget the dishes.  Sound familiar.  It is worth a try, good luck.

I am currently on strattera and believe it is helping.  I've been on various med trials over the past 2+ years--starting with adderall, then another stimulant instead, then ion concerta then only strattera and now on combination of strattera and adderall (mostly because I still had some left over from a previous script).  When I first started just on strattera, the dose was gradually increased and it worked to stop the constant thoughts bouncing around in my head--I actually complained to the psychiatrist that my head now felt empty, like there was nothing there--so I guess it was working!  But still couldn't stay focused on work--I'm in grad school with a lot of reading and writing required--and have much trouble getting it all done.  Decreased to 50mg strattera in pm and started 20mg adderall xr in am--now up to 30mg of the adderall---the combo seems to be helping--sometimes I wonder how much improvement I can expect from the meds and how much is now up to me to structure my time, because otherwise the day goes by and I still seem to get nothing done---I can find a lot of ways to distract myself from the job at hand---and can only work for about an hour at a time--and sometimes even then have to get up and do anything else except what I'm supposed to be doing.  For example--it's almost 8:30pm, I have a sermon to preach tomorrow and I haven't started it yet, plus 3 papers due Monday, 1 more paper due Tuesday (those are the big ones) plus 2 smaller papers on Monday, and 4 more short papers by Friday!!!  So what am I doing--anything but what I need to get done.   So maybe this combination of meds is not working all that well afterall--but the strattera does help to slow down the scattered feeling in my brain. 

Sorry, this is a very long answer--but I guess that's the ADHD. 

Good luck!  I'll be interested in seeing what others have to say on this topic.

Kate