Not Eating while on Concerta 54 MG/ can't be healthy

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danielgreen2 wrote:

I took Ritalin for 8 years in elementary school (both are methylphenidate, they are just different brand names.

I am now 21, and a recreational drug user.

This is relevant for 2 reasons, as I have just started taking Concerta for school.

Firstly, I spend far less time 'drugged' now then when I was growing up.

Secondly, I smoke marijuana pretty much every and have done so for the last 4 years. I have learned that this is common with people who were heavily medicated with methylphenidate as a child. More so , I feel much more drugged while on Concerta than after smoking marijuana.

To this day I find it very difficult and painful to deal with memories of my childhood on methylphenidate.


I say this with the utmost sincerity and gravity.

IF YOU LOVE YOUR GRANDSON. TAKE HIM OFF 54MG CONCERTA.

There are other options, such as physical discipline.

If your grandson is using Concerta because your daughter feels it is easier to deal with him, she is a horrible and selfish person. By keeping him on this drug, you are causing him permanent psychological trauma and likely developmental damage.

If you would to talk with me more, please get in touch with me.

I don't want to post my email for fear of spam, however I already get alot of spam and this is a very important issue for me.

you an reach me at:
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Please state that it is regarding concerta in the subject.

If you don't get a reply please keep trying


Sincerely,
Dan Green

Are you seriously claiming that Concerta is responsible for your problems and ignoring the real cause that you were getting high on marijuana for 4 years of your life? That's ridiculous. That's like me taking vitamins every morning and drinking alcohol, then blaming the vitamins for making me drunk. Ridiculous man, ridiculous. You must of been high the moment you made this post, Concerta is suppose to make you concentrate, Marijuana has the opposite effect, what a dumb ass...

You are comparing vitamins to concerta... Don't do that.

Being a drug user ain't bad. I did marijuana to eat and sleep and talk wen I was too quiet. Yea I chose to but it had a greater benefit then a sleeping pill. Rather hav a plant then watever they put in em. So ur a dumbass why shud u care its not yu. Ppl have coping skills of their own. I'm not a dumbass and I smoke n take 54mg of concerta. And I KNOW my spellings not correct but it takes forever typing on a phone. Plus the weed takes away the headaces n the irrability away. So shut ur trap. I hav stoppd all drugs cold turkey and not damn thing happen. I dnt need ritalin no more just dnt abuse it and sh*t gets solved for ur life.

Ok, let met and get you a little better answer then that. I am 19 years old now and I have taken concerta for school over the past 5 years. I have been fully diagnosed with ADD by a proper psychologist, not just by walking into my doctors office and saying I can't concentrate/I have bad grades. Now all that being said, I can say that this drug will not traumatize your child/grandson or make him smoke weed. I know this myself because I have tried Marijuana and gotten very high from it( so it wasn't cheep stuff and you can trust my honest opinion knowing that I felt the full effect of the plant) and I can tell you I feel know need to smoke it again concerta or otherwise. I don't buy it myself, and I don't use it when I am employed. All that craziness aside, 54 millagrams seems like an pretty high dosage for a ten year old, unless he is a really big kid. Being on such a high dose will make him quiet or even moody in some cases but that is a normal effect of the drug. When I was in high school I knew that I needed to feed myself even when I was not hungry at all. I simply though about what time of day it was and if a normal person was hungry at that time, then I would eat. However, a ten year old lacks that amount of reasoning and discipline unless someone has explained it to them. I suggest lowering the dosage, He is not "suffering" or "being damaged" as other post may suggest. But he is not really old enough to appreciate what the drug is doing for him. As for the rest of it, like making him easier to deal with a ten year old boy is always going to need proper parenting/guidance and discipline. It is not good to let him/teach him to blame all his mistakes and failures or misbehaver on ADD. This is not the case. Allowing him to use it as an excuse will hold him back and not let him reach his full potential. Do not use excuses to hold yourself back! P.S There are a lot of other medications to choose from, as they work a little different for everyone, I suggest trying a few others to see which will work best for him. Once now if you like, and then again when he is a little older and can make a better decision on his own.

You smoke because you have adhd. You took concerta for the same reason. Thats the only link

Hey i would love to get in touch with you, i just started on concerta and i would like to talk to you about that because i see in your post that u started in your twenties just like me. I am 23 year old and i really really wish they took the test on me way before. So if you let me contact you please leave your email or some ways to contact you in next comment please =) thank u

Take him off its the devils food. I hate concerta. As im typing this im on concerta, i was looking up to see if my heart will stop if i dont eat on it. I am in college. Take that child off of that medicine if you give a damn about him.

My ADHD doctor recommends that children should take around 15-25mg of Concerta. And the sleep/appetite thing is very common in kids/teens and some adults. The best advice is to tell your grandson to eat during the day. I was loosing too much weight by not eating during the day and it started to affect my everyday life. Mabey take him to the grocery store and look at the healthy options. Cliff bars are a great source of energy! Baked chicken is a good one also. My last tip is to get him on a sleep schedule. It's a well known problem to have a hard time sleeping when you take Concerta in the PM hours or with an empty stomach from the day before. If none of this works. Take him to his pediatrician.