Will do. Just realized I spelled it wrong-Strattera.

I tried it once, and so did my teenage daughter. Neither of us liked it. Both of us were jittery, uncomfortable, restless...just didn't work for us. The mftr really pushes this drug on doctors, who push it on their patients. We went back to adderal.

I don't believe Effexor is the same thing as Strattera. Effexor is Venlafaxine. Strattera is Atomexetine. They're molecularly similar, I guess, being made up of Carbon, Hydrogen, Nitrogen and Oxygen. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venlafaxine and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomoxetine

Anyway, I do use Strattera. I've been on it for almost a year now, after spending most of my life on Ritalin and later Concerta. I had to stop taking Concerta because I was getting depressed and into obsessive-compulsive non-productive loops, as well as feeling increasingly distanced from the world. I didn't like it. Note, however, that I had been taking Ritalin or Concerta for years with no such side effects (almost 30!).

I was worried about switching to Strattera. I rather liked that I could have medication-free weekends and the like with Ritalin/Concerta. You must take Strattera all the time and it can take weeks or months to build up the right baseline amount in your body. Now that the dosage has been stabilized, I'm happy with it. I actually like it better than the Ritalin/Concerta. Like Concerta, I only have to take it once a day, which is easier to manage, but I feel it does a much better job of helping with mood lability. Before I used to get upset/angry and enter into a cycle where I could watch myself getting angry and responding inappropriately, but I felt unable to stop myself -- too small of a gap. With the Strattera, the gap seems larger plus I'm not as moody to begin with. I think my interpersonal relationships have benefitted a lot. In terms of concentration, I get pretty much well the same focusing effects as I had with the Ritalin/Concerta.

All in all, I'm quite happy with it, but your experiences may differ. Everyone's neurochemistry is unique. Heck, even mine changed, which is why I could no longer use Ritalin/Concerta in the first place.