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Post by mizmog on Jun 23, 2012 9:17:52 GMT
Hello, I don't know quite what's going on lately.. Since upping the concerta dose to 54mg, I'm finding I'm having more and more miserable bouts! Not depressed or frustrated just miserable. It almost feels like I'm really sulking!
Now I don't know if it's concerta related or I am just really miserable with my life, but it's like nothing pleases me now! I'll give u an example: I had been texting a very old male friend just purely as a bit of banter but it has been everyday for the last few months.. Hubby knows so I wasn't doing anything i shouldn't, but a debate got heated and I kinda over reacted and so we no longer speak! Since then, I have not been able to react to anything - fantastic financial week at work, didn't even raise a smile, my Dad after years called me on Fathers Day and said he loved me, didn't raise an eyebrow! It should be the one thing to make me elated but nothing does at the moment!
I haven't explained it very well, but basically it feels like something very small but routine had disappeared and left me just miserable about life!
I didn't take concerta for a day to see if it made a difference but I just went into spin mode ... Has anyone else had this from meds? Or am I just unhappy with my life?
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Post by Notlonelyinacrowdnow on Jun 23, 2012 9:57:08 GMT
I'm so glad I just read your post... Weirdly I've been feeling similar Misery feelings and on Concerta 18mg I saw my specialist yesterday he asked if I was depressed unsaid NO but I suppose I should have mentioned the low mood I've always been a bit Deep anyway so swung from cheery to miserable prior to Meds but I get you when you say Nothing changes the mood even good news n stuff!!!
This morning as I looked in the medicine cupboard for my usual Thyoxine and Meds I decided there & then not to continue on Concerta I've only been taking it just under 6 weeks so I figured I'd coped be it struggled for 40odd years prior to recent diagnosis so I am going to see how I get on .. I havent told my hubby I'm stopping as he will want me to continue as he has seen changes in me but who wants Meds for life I'm already on them for Thyroid troubles The only concern is Low mood but I'll know if it was Concerta ?? Xxx
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Post by mizmog on Jun 23, 2012 10:07:47 GMT
Hay lonely, I haven't been able to tell Hubby either.. He doesn't want me to stop my meds! I keep trying to relate it to pre-med moods, but I know they would hv been so erratic from high to low and possibly destructive... When I didn't take meds for a day, I got a faint reminder of that so I continued. Just don't know what to do to lift this.. I feel worse I think because my youngest child has now become very independent and takes herself off out so I don't hv any destructions left! It feels like the only thing that made me smile was the thought of getting in the car and keep on driving far far away.. Pre-meds I did it, regularly and never went back! I suppose in hind sight, it might be the concerta curbing the natural impulse to seek out the 'freedom' leaving the miserable mood.. I don't know
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Post by Notlonelyinacrowdnow on Jun 23, 2012 12:20:15 GMT
Aww bless it's hard isn't it.. To be honest my outlet is Music not listening to it as such but I play guitar and write songs so I can and do spend hours on end recording and have music sites I frequent without my musicianship id feel Empty. I just slipped up to my hubby that I haven't had my Concerta today he just said You should take it but I told him I'm going to see how I go for a day or 2 one think I have noticed already is I'm a bit restless and over thinking lol can't win can we xx
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2012 12:52:39 GMT
Guys, it's worth remembering it's not always about ADHD. You sound depressed, Mog, because you're fighting with your OH, and however you position it here, it sounds like an important fight.
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Post by claudhopper on Jun 25, 2012 16:01:57 GMT
I've been diagnosed as having disthymia but I think a lot of it is down to disappointment with my grand plans going to ground than my very nature. If my plans get off the ground I'm full of hope and socialising a lot more. Hopefully meds will do enough to get me moving again.
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Post by mizmog on Jun 27, 2012 12:15:10 GMT
I think there might be a certain amount of o/h issues there Shiny, but I hv done a lot of thinking this last week and I wonder if it is just disappointment that yet another friendship has Disapeared.., I find though, that they are always so intense and when they go it leaves a big hole! Chalk it up to experience I suppose, feel miserable for a while then move on...
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Post by Notlonelyinacrowdnow on Jun 27, 2012 15:34:14 GMT
I'd stopped my Concerta for 2 days thinking it was making me miserable however I had the worst 1 days more depressed than in a long while so took my Concerta this morning and feel great again.. So I'm thinking the low moods are prob not my Meds but me!!! Sometimes a swift kick up the butt is needed x
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Post by mizmog on Jun 27, 2012 20:23:16 GMT
Think your right lonely, i need a big boot!! Lol
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Post by Notlonelyinacrowdnow on Jun 27, 2012 20:31:36 GMT
Ha I meant I need it but yeh I think sometimes we can worry ourselves sick I daren't read up on any symptoms or bad things as I then makes self think the worst lol I'm going to start listening to my body and taking the Concerta after a 2 day break made me realise I do need it xx
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2012 20:47:57 GMT
Hey - is the concerta having benefits generally? I wonder whether it might be related to your expectations about the changes you might've expected. I had a bit of a period like that and it was due to the above reasons I think. Do you exercise? I don't enjoy it but I make myself go to the gym 3 x a week. I reckon that helps. Does for me anyhow. Good luck with it all
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