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I'm not really sure where to post this so i'm putting it here to see if anyone has any advice or help.

I currently take 30mg of adderall xr every day and was put on strattera, which i took for about 18 days. On april 9th i had an episode of really bad vertigo where i stood up and the room started spinning and then i got really nauseas, light headed, started sweating a lot, and my pulse dropped about 30 bpm. I have thyroiditis and my pulse is typically between 95 and 105 and during this it dropped down to about 66 but started to go back up after about half an hour. and an hour later i was fine and felt great the rest of the week.

then this past sunday the 17th i had another episode of vertigo with the same symptoms. I ended up going to the ER to get checked out because my pulse was not going up at all after about 45 minutes. It took about 1 1/2 hours to get in to see someone at the ER and by that time i was starting to feel better. They told me the vertigo episodes could be caused by the strattera so my psychiatrist took me off of it on monday. Since sunday/monday i have felt completely exhausted emotionally and physically, and i had been having some chest pains. I went to the nurse practitioner at my doctors office and she told me that it is probably all related to my thryroid. She did an EKG that looked normal, of course when i wasnt having any chest pains. 

Has anyone else had similar symptoms or experiences with strattera?? I felt so much better when I was on the strattera than I do now, and it really was helping me a lot.

Any suggestions I should bring up with my doctor or psychiatrist? 

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Kerin15

Hi- wondering how you ended up addressing this issue with Strattera.  I am currently going off of it and caffiene hoping to reverse adrenal fatigue. I am in the trenches feeling fatigued and unfocused.  My hope is that I will be better off in the end.   Amy 
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Guest

I was taken off of the strattera for a while but my dizziness went away and I haven't had any vertigo since those episodes. I felt horrible when I was off the strattera. I could tell a huge difference from when I was off of it and how I feel today after being put back on it. I'm not sure if the strattera has helped much with my focus issues, but it has helped my mood and pairing it with the adderall that I am on I think is a good combination for me. Hope you are doing well Kerin15, and I hope you find something that works for you! 
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