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I am on Strattera and love it... I was diagnosed with ADD as a child but was very active which helped to level me out. Went into the Marines and was fine for those 4 years. But now that I am out I noticed that my concentration level was alot less than it used to be because I am not nearly as active as I have been. So I went to see my Doctor about it and she put me on Strattera and now I am back to normal.
The biggest thing is that ADD or ADHD is an illness. Which can be regulated by diet and excercise. The biggest thing you need to remember that this drug is a stimulant kind of like speed. Meaning that if you grabbed one of those pills it would give you quite a boost. But for someone with ADD or ADHD it boosts them up to the level with normal people.
So if your son was significantly boosted its probably because he doesn't have ADD or ADHD, he is normal. The easiest way to tell is if it boosts him up above the normal level. I would definetly say he is misdiagnosed.
One of my nephew's friends was having alot of problems in school and I noticed that he had alot of the same symptoms as me when Im not on the medicine. So, I brought him to my doctor who sent him to a specialist which they found he had ADHD with bipolar tendencies.
He is on Adderall(sp?) and it hasn't had any side effects of making him be over energized "jumping off the walls" because he actually has ADHD. So, my suggestion is to go to another doctor and make sure they run full tests. Because from my observation I would say that he is misdiagnosed.
These drugs are only meant to make you normal not make your heart start beating a million miles an hour or give you so much energy you are jumping off the walls.
Just my 2 cents....
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