Author: QuittingOpiatesSweden

Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 2:41 am

My doctor knows that I have a concerta prescription and he wouldn’t have put me on suboxone if there were known dangers of combining the two, however I have still not dared to take them both at the same day yet. I’m supposed to take concerta all days but I don’t, I only take them days when I work or have something else really important that I must try had not to screw up, and not even all such days, because I really really don’t like the way they make me feel. When I was younger (like 14-15) I was prescribed racemic amphetamine (known as Adderall in the US, the bottle in Sweden looks like a white generic bottle with a sticker saying "Amfetamin 5 mg"). Those had less side effects, and helped me more, but after some year of taking those I learned that amphetamine was a "drug" (something people get high from) and I refused to take it. (I was very very anti drug taking in my teens).
I later in my 20s found many of the unused amphetamine bottles and used them now and then to help me function better in college and with daily tasks. It really helped me a lot getting things done. It did give me many similar annoying speedy side effects as concerta, but not nearly as bad, and it didn’t feel "dangerous" the way it sometimes feels when I’ve taken concerta, feeling that something in my body is about to break, like i’ll suddenly get an aneurysm or whatever.
Anyway, now that I’m an adult there is no chance that they’ll prescribe it to me again anyway, they almost never prescribe it even to children, much less to adults these days.
As for the idea that concerta would not be a stimulant, I don’t know what they would mean when they say that. It is. Not much to argue about there really.

Author: QuittingOpiatesSweden

Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 2:41 am

My doctor knows that I have a concerta prescription and he wouldn’t have put me on suboxone if there were known dangers of combining the two, however I have still not dared to take them both at the same day yet. I’m supposed to take concerta all days but I don’t, I only take them days when I work or have something else really important that I must try had not to screw up, and not even all such days, because I really really don’t like the way they make me feel. When I was younger (like 14-15) I was prescribed racemic amphetamine (known as Adderall in the US, the bottle in Sweden looks like a white generic bottle with a sticker saying "Amfetamin 5 mg"). Those had less side effects, and helped me more, but after some year of taking those I learned that amphetamine was a "drug" (something people get high from) and I refused to take it. (I was very very anti drug taking in my teens).
I later in my 20s found many of the unused amphetamine bottles and used them now and then to help me function better in college and with daily tasks. It really helped me a lot getting things done. It did give me many similar annoying speedy side effects as concerta, but not nearly as bad, and it didn’t feel "dangerous" the way it sometimes feels when I’ve taken concerta, feeling that something in my body is about to break, like i’ll suddenly get an aneurysm or whatever.
Anyway, now that I’m an adult there is no chance that they’ll prescribe it to me again anyway, they almost never prescribe it even to children, much less to adults these days.
As for the idea that concerta would not be a stimulant, I don’t know what they would mean when they say that. It is. Not much to argue about there really.