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I have been taking concerta every weekday for school sense i was in the 3rd grade im pretty sure. Now im in 12th grade and still take it every day 54mg its been 54 sense about the 7th grade so of a total now i have been taking it for 9 years with only summer vaction as a long period break and not always becasue i would take it for camp sometime to. every day i dread coming to school it most be the worst place imaginable. I usually sit by myself all day quite well i seperate myself from everyone. i feel extremely alone everyday and when people try to talk to me i usually try to end conversation as quick as possible because i feel uncomfortable. I worry about every little possible thing all the time i always am concerend if people are thinkign about me negativly for example if some one were to just glance at me i would tweak out in my head and ask myself 1000 senrieos how they could be putting me down. I feel extremely depressed i have thought about suicide many time. Home life is not easy ethier as my mother always has expected the absolute best of everything i have done and is never satisfied with me and everything in the house thats a problem is my fault like i am the only problem at home and am constantly attacked. I only have about 3 people i really can talk to as they have been my friends before i started taking concertea i have mad no new friends and am always afraid of the consenqsces  of risks so i take very little risks as i do not take failure well so i have pretty much stoped trying to do anything as u cant fail if u dont even try to succeed there comes in my mother again by doing this at home i am constantly barraged with how i didnt live up to expections and how i failed as a son. I constantly think of how much of a failure i am and how i let everyone down all time and can never do anything right. I have done nothing with my life to progress to adulthood no liscense no job and had opertunnitys in school but lost them now because i stoped trying no plans for the future or job have not filled out a single college application. I have come to the conclusion that i have pretty much ruined my life due to the fact that i was to afraid of rejection which i think was due to the stimulation that the conretea gave me as i constantly focesed on how i was not good enough as my mother always told me and my dad doesnt care about me pretty much hates me and puts me down every chance he has. i have no ideas what to do with out the concerta i cant foces in school to get the little work i do done without it i am completly unfocesd and disruptive. because i have never learned to control myself without the meds i have become dependent on them because i took them so young i didnt see the long term effects and now as an almost adult i can not deal with almost any social situations with out feel awkward and i feel very sad all of the time. i would reccomend that no one ever give this to there child the effects can help foces but in the long run it has done nothing but hert me kids can learn without it they just need more disaplen and parents cant be lazy they need to work with there child and help them over come this. Dont put your kids through this i warn you i am a very sad and lonely person it may just be me but i wouldnt take any chances. 
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I've been taking concerta for a while and i have some symptoms but i don't know if it is because of it or just a different reason, so at school I've been able to focus amazing but sometime forget to put a letter at the end of the word also, my grammar is bad. i feel anxious sometime and feel like I'm full but I'm not, another thing I'm worried about is the short term memory. its very hard for me to remember things only from 1-2 hours in the past. and i can't fall asleep till 2-3 AM every night, these are sort of new symptoms. if anyone has any of these please respond
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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.

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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)

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same exact side effects im getting, i guess is the wrong meds...
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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.
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