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| 3 | ADD | I cannot bring myself to eat anything at all from the moment I take the pill to about eleven hours afterward (6 am until 5 pm). I have frequent (albiet small) panic attacks throughout the day (I had only had one panic attack in my life before Concerta) After the pill wears off, though, I raid the kitchen and eat several meals at odd times (lunch around 5 pm, dinner around 9 pm, and a large snack around 12 am). During the course of the day, a bottle of Pepsi is all I can bring myself to have to eat. When the medicine wears off, I can't concentrate on anything (homework gives me many problems). My vision is blurred, and during this time, I become obsessed with one topic. Right now it is the side effects of Concerta (that's why I'm typing this now, I guess). Before the side effects of Concerta, it was methods of suicide. Before that, it was atheism and philosophy. During this time, I feel dizzy and tired (although I am not able to take a nap during this time.) After that stage, a | Although I've got some pretty bad side effects from it, Concerta does help me concentrate and remain interested in school work. I am still taking the medicine, and I think I will be for a while. I'm not sure I'd recommend it to others for long term use, but I don't think it'd hurt too bad to try it for a little bit. I have a bunch of side effects that are very uncommon, but about 75% of those taking Concerta won't have any side effects at all. I would recommend highly that someone with ADD try out the medicine, because even my side effects (pardon my French: Hell.) are outweighed by the benefits of the medicine. | M | 17 | 1 years | 8/27/2009 | 3 | improve my concentration at school. | Weightloss,decreased appetite.(but i also get extremely hungry), irritation, depression, blurred vision, insomnia, anxiety. | From the age of 12 till 17 i took about 54mg of concerta daily. Iam now im my final year in high school, ive been taking 100mg due to the increased amount of work at school. Ive never till today felt so depressed, my confidence in down the drain, i no longer want to play netball or go to school dances. I feel that i dont have a personality, im constantly very quiet and reserved. Its gotten so bad that i fear of leaving my room at boarding school and if i do i make sure i come back asap. I easily feel intimidated and im always thinking that im not good enough. Concerta does help me concentrate, i do one thing at a time and im very patient. Weirdly my hearing has improved tremendously, for example; im able to hear when someone is walking down the passage quiet a distance away. When im studying and concentrating really hard, ill tune in to the sound of someone crunching a paper or drawing with a pencil on the other side of the room and get extremely irrated or if a clock ticks ill stare at it for a long time (hoping that it will stop). Judging from my marks at school, concerta has helped me alot. But the way i feel about myself now,regarding my self esteem and doing things at school or anywhere, i wouldnt want anyone to feel like this. Yes i have been to a psychologist many times, but honestly it doesnt help. I feel i cant go without concerta. Actually my body is dependent on it, i can immediately feel when i havent taken it, i feel almost tipsy and i struggle to speak properly, | F | 17 | 7 years 100mg | 2/13/2016 | 3 | improve my concentration at school. | Weightloss,decreased appetite.(but i also get extremely hungry), irritation, depression, blurred vision, insomnia, anxiety. | From the age of 12 till 17 i took about 54mg of concerta daily. Iam now im my final year in high school, ive been taking 100mg due to the increased amount of work at school. Ive never till today felt so depressed, my confidence in down the drain, i no longer want to play netball or go to school dances. I feel that i dont have a personality, im constantly very quiet and reserved. Its gotten so bad that i fear of leaving my room at boarding school and if i do i make sure i come back asap. I easily feel intimidated and im always thinking that im not good enough. Concerta does help me concentrate, i do one thing at a time and im very patient. Weirdly my hearing has improved tremendously, for example; im able to hear when someone is walking down the passage quiet a distance away. When im studying and concentrating really hard, ill tune in to the sound of someone crunching a paper or drawing with a pencil on the other side of the room and get extremely irritated or if a clock ticks ill stare at it for a long time (hoping that it will stop). Judging from my marks at school, concerta has helped me alot. But the way i feel about myself now,regarding my self esteem and doing things at school or anywhere, i wouldnt want anyone to feel like this. Yes i have been to a psychologist many times, but honestly it doesnt help. I feel i cant go without concerta. Actually my body is dependent on it, i can immediately feel when i havent taken it, i feel almost tipsy and i struggle to speak properly, | F | 17 | 7 years 100mg | 2/13/2016 | 3 | ADD | It started well but after like 2 weeks I noticed severe abdominal pains and cramps, Irritability, a crash around 12pm after taking at 7 am and what seems to be a sinus infection/very runny nose. I need something for my ADD so I can't stop taking it but the side effects are dreadful. If you experienced this or know of something that may work better | F | 17 | 2 months 18 | 4/17/2017 | 3 | adhd | lack of sleep, i think im having mood swings because of it and they mis-diagnosed me with bi-poler, lack of commen sense? i guess, i find it harder to do things, im more lazy, and i make the same mistake over and over weather im on the pill or not. | I like it because i am able to focus a little more like i can remember lists of things i need in my head and i can walk into a room without forgetting why i went in there. but the sleep problem is horrible, my appitite got better after taking it for about 6 mo. but all the side effects ive listed are still a problem, an will anyone with any information about mood swings when on concerta please e mail me because i think im on medication right now that i shouldn't be do to it. | M | 17 | 3 years | 6/28/2006 | 3 | ADD | sweating,WEIGHT LOSS, anti-social, motivation increased, depression. | i have been taking concerta for a number of years and i find it very helpful in my studies. although since ive been taking concerta i have developed depression. this makes it very hard for me to want to take part in social activities since the side effects are sometimes anti-social. i stay motivated for a number of days, weeks, occasionally months, but soon after something bothers me (weither its relationships or school related) i dont have the motivation anymore. i think its possibly because i have been taking concerta for so long. maybe my body has adjusted to it. it does help me stay focused and i tend to want to be a "better person" while im on it. I can carry on a conversation well but i do have out bursts if things dont go the way i want. another horrible side effect that is possible to develope (but doesnt always) is an eating disorder. which ive struggled with for the past four years. | F | 17 | 8 years | 6/3/2008 | 3 | Add/ Adhd | Inability to sleep without sleeping pills, huge loss in hunger, confusion, irrotability, changes the real me. | While on concerta im not myself. People often mistake me for being a stoner, it makes me very mellow compared to how I am without it. I belive it effects my social life greatly and has more cons then pros. Occasional depression for no reason. Some times I get so confused and have no clue where im supose to be. | M | 17 | 7 years | 11/13/2008 | 3 | i have O.D.D. | shaky, major loss of appetite, mood swings, got really hot a lot, dizziness, anxious, depressed? | i felt like sometimes it wasnt working, but then i figured out you have to take it AFTER you eat. i always feel very shaky and nervous, which i dont like. Also i can go days without eating when im on it. I never get hungry. Lastly, the only good thing is sometimes i over achieve and it helps to stay awake. | F | 17 | 7 weeks | 12/11/2008 | 3 | ADD | Irritability, Headaches, Fidgety, Intense Anxieties, Extreme Motivation | It's weird, above all concera made me drowsy. I would have energy during the day, but then I'd just crash. I'd be easily upset by the smallest of things. | F | 17 | 3 weeks | 2/10/2008 | 3 | ADD | Inability for sexual climax, weight loss/loss of apetite, depression, insomnia or extreme drowsiness. Physical dependency if I go off it. | It changed my life by allowing me to focus on school and social relationships, but 5 years later I'm still trying to figure out if it was worth the side effects. | M | 17 | 5 years | 1/9/2008 | 3 | ADD | Iritability, Loss of apetite, Insomnia, slightly depressed( most likely because of the lack of sleep, Muscle Tension | Started off taking 15 mg of Ritalin every morning (did this for about 3 weeks) which did almost nothing and wore off after my first class. I switched to taking 54 mg of Concerta every morning, deffinetly noticed my concentration improve. After the first day using Concerta i was unable to fall asleep that night and ended up staying awake till i had to go to school again. I took my 54 mg's that next morning just so i would be able function in school that day. That night i had trouble falling asleep but ended up getting about 4 hours in. Today i took another 54 mg's in the morning and am feeling quite depressed and irritable at the moment. I realize that different medications treating ADD/ADHD will have significantly different effects on one individual over another. . . this drug just isn't for me i guess | M | 17 | 4 days | 3/13/2008 | 3 | "ADHD" | Headaches, Insomnia, Nose bleeds, Anger issues | I'm gonna try to keep this short, I took this drug in order to do better in high school. I did find a bit more focus, but I'm fairly sure it was simply due to the fact that I was hyper from the concerta. It turns out that men with ADD have many of the same symptoms as men with depression. Before committing to an increased dose of attention deficit medicines try out anti-depressants for about 1 and 1/2 months. It may allow you to miss out on many of the extremely negative side affects which I experienced first hand for no reason. (As for the anti-depressants I suggest welbutrin, it worked for me!) I hope that this helped. | M | 17 | 2 years | 8/20/2006 | 3 | adhd | Loss of appetite. Headache when i first take it after a long time without. Mouth tics. I've been taking it for awhile and its the best adhd medicine I've been on I've been on a lot of different ones. | F | 17 | 4 years 54 | 8/31/2012 | 3 | ADD | Nausea, Loss of Appetite, Headache, Anxiousness. | it certainly helps me focus in class and retain what I study, but whenever I take it I feel sick almost the entire day. There is a slight nausea and I get headaches easier. Due to the nausea I don't eat much because I feel like I'm about to vomit. Also I've noticed that I become more anxious and I can't sit around and do nothing otherwise the anxiousness and nausea get even worse. If I'm occupied it's okay, but otherwise it's terrible. Although I think this drug helps me and I don't have bad drops from it, the nausea makes me not take it when I don't have to. | F | 17 | 1 years 54mg 1X day | 9/7/2010 | 3 | for ADHD | moodyness, i feel really cold | so i was diagnosed with adhd this year and i started with 5mg of ritalin twice a day, then gradually bumped it up all the way to 15 twice a day 10 at night. When i started on ritalin i was really depressed and i felt like i had tunnel vision. slowly it got better i realized a half hour after i took it i had extrmeme focus but i didn't like the imbalance with my moods it created by taking it 3 times a day. i just started 36 mg of concerta i feel no difference, i feel pretty normal. | F | 17 | 1 days 36 1X day | 3/2/2010 | 3 | ADHD | I have experinced weird ways of thinking and what I call hyper focus, its when you get so instensly focused on school work that you feel like you are using it as an escapism from dealing with real life. Smoking pot and being on concerta is not a good feeling I would recommend against it, drinking on it is not to bad but you get really tired the next day. If you plan to do Ecxtasy you have to take more then you would orgionally think, and do not do it while on the concerta. I feel that sadly smoking ciggarettes all day even thought it makes me tired helps me focus with my ADHD sometimes better then the concerta sometimes worse. I wonder if smoking cigarettes while being on birth control and concerta is bad for my heart though? It says alot that if you smoke you should be careful taking birth control and concerta is a stimulant too, so it concerns me but I feel like there are no other options for what I can do right now. | F | 17 | 9 years 40mg 1X day | 5/25/2010 | 2 | ADHD | Dry mouth, leading to bad breathe, suicidal thoughts, intense irritation, hyper focus, increased hearing tolerance, social awkward, dizziness, head aches, stomach aches, twitches, very intense heartbeats the the point where I could see my stomach beat through my shirt, shakiness, no tolerance, cold hands and feet, over thinking, depression, loss of eating completely, didn't have to eat for days, paranoia, intense insomnia, crying. | I originally took concerta because of my lack of focus in class. It made me extremely focused and I got very good grades but, after a while I started to be a zombie and became a person who didn't talk and just worked. I lost all of my personality, never felt right, was self conscious, and never knew what to say. I also could not handle stupid comments. Any kind of joke or any person who is in any way annoying would make me flip out. I also could not sleep until it wore off which was around 2 oclock at night. Eating was not even an option and became too skinny. Always paranoid for what I had to do. In class I sweat excessively and always smelled bad. When I got home I felt alone and nothing could ever make me happy no matter how hard I tried. I also felt weak and thought I would fall down when ever I would stand because of the dizziness and weakness in my body. | M | 17 | 3 years 2 36 MG 1X day | 5/28/2010 | 2 | ADD | weight loss, extreme loss of appetite, paranoia, depression, feelings of isolation, worry, anxious feeling. | ive gotten way better grades in school, but the side effects have gotten worse and worse. it take the pill at 7AM and until about 7PM i can't eat anything. no food looks appealing enough to eat and i have to literally make myself eat. i feel myself drifting away from my friends unintentionally. the side effects are not worth the good grades. friends>A's in school. | M | 17 | 6 months 27 MG 1X day | 2/12/2010 | 2 | ADD ADHD | anxiety,General feeling of being late, extreme focus, sudden interest followed by sudden disinterest, Complete inability to deal with people. | I hate my Concerta I hate taking it I hate not taking it. When I first started on it around 12 it helped my ADHD and my grades shot up. I also started to have problems socializing I only had 5 or so friends at an age when most kids are friends with all the kids in there grade. once I reached 8th grade the medicine had pretty much become my way of life. Up until 8th grade I really did not really notice that my medicine made me unhappy, in 8th grade I started to be interested in girls, but since at this point out of my five friends 3 of them I only talked to in school, and the other two where as socially uncomfortable as me. I never had the chance to really hang out with people or go to parties or do anything most kids did. I realized the meds were holding me back but I really did nothing about it. Then when freshmen year came around I started having more pressure then I could handle alone ( at this point I only had one good friend left.) I stopped doing my homework after school and instead would just kill time focusing on one hobby until it no longer interested me and move on with in a month to a new one. Since I was not doing my home work after school and the meds in my head demanded I get it done some time I started taking it before beds o I could not sleep and I would do my home work at around 3 or so in the morning and then to stay awake during the day I would double or triple my dosage. then repeat until the weekend. I remember one week where I had a lot of projects I did | M | 17 | 5 years 108mg 1X day | 7/27/2010 | 2 | ADHD | In the first hour- pupil dilation, mild euphoria, walked really fast. After the first hour- Constant headache, no appetite, loss of self(felt like I had no soul), irritability, couldn't act or sing well(things I'm naturally very good at), kept walking into people in the hallway(never happens). | I took ritalin on and off for a few years a while back and it worked for a while but eventually I didn't feel like I needed it. Recently, school's tanked. Realized I haven't been able to focus so got a prescription for Concerta. This was my first day. It felt like my brain was linear, which is quite different than the usual. It almost felt like my ability to concentrate decreased. Felt like I lost all my creativity and sense of humour. Overall, didn't feel like myself, like I'd lost me, not necessarily depression, but similar. | M | 17 | 1 days 36 mg 1X day | 11/29/2011 |