To reply to the first post, I my self have been experiencing that more than ussual and I've been taking it since i was in 7th grade. I go to a technical college in Minnesota and there are some days I get so nervouse that I've not gone to class. I dont know what to tell you but you are not the only one.
I went on concerta in grade nine but I has also just moved and it made me severely anxious in my stomach.. and depressed all the time because of it, I would cry day everyday if I could.... and I premuch suffered from it, I thought it was just me cause I have always been anxious my whole life and I found out I have OCD! or i'm sure just severe anxiety because I worry about real things. When I take concerta I can actually feel it when it works in my stomach I get this panicked feeling or sickkk feeling ... when your worrying about something so much because you think something bad is gonna or is happening, that's what I felt all day everyday for 3 years because of concerta. I always thought it was because of issues such as school and moving and I blamed alot of other things until I realized how jumpy it makes me feel, that reminds me of usual anxiety and also when I DON'T take it I feel less nervous. I don't know how it does it and I want to know but i'm glad in a way that others have felt the same because it like tortured me but also made me like a genius at school just from being anxious and trying to pay attention at the same time (hard to explain that but I think it makes u try to learn to try and take your mind off the anxiety.) because i'm.. on anxiety medication now & I'm soooo much happier for I don't feel the sick feeling (..jumpness) in my stomach anymore when I take concerta with it, at all BUT I can't pay attention NEAR as much as I use to when I had the jumpysick feeling in my stomach. I think that's suppose to be there to give ppl who don't have worries or anxiety alil bit of it so they give themselves more responsibility and jumpyness (id shake...) makes you learn . (if your thinking well if you already had jumpyness or anxiety whyd u take it ...I feel jumpy already but towards things like ppl judging me, I cant pay attention to what the teacher is saying AT ALL though I day dream alll the time. concerta I think makes ppl feel jumpyness towards everything infront of them which makes it ten times worse for the things I already feel jumpy with :/ . Anxiety medication I take makes it so I cant feel that way towards ANYTHING nomatter what ..so I dont feel like concerta is working anymore with it at all, I actually day dream sometimes with it. That was never possible when I just had the concerta and no anxiety medication.
p.s. jumpyness feeling I feel is like the attention allurt feeling you are suppose to feel when taking them. (worsened my anxiety and made me pay more attention to it- I could feel it in my stomach allday everyday)
same exact side effects im getting, i guess is the wrong meds...
Sorry to hear you are going through that. I know Anxiety well! Concerta has done the complete opposite for me. I have almost no anxiety. I use to have anxiety and depression issues due to Stressors caused by ADD. I feel like I have taken a miracle pill. I have only been taking it for about 3 weeks and only as needed so I can perform at work and it a great fit for me so far. Hope you find the right fit because axiety is a horrible feeling to have an axiety attack I am sure is 10 times worst.