anyone taken this before? did it help? any side effects? did you like it?

i just got a Rx for it

1/21/2007 4:58:23 PM

concerta is a time-release version of ritalin

1/21/2007 10:54:11 PM

man, i tried that stuff before, it made me feel WAY too wired, couldn't sleep at all had trouble thinking straight, ended up switching to adderal xr, which worked pretty well without any untolerable side effects

1/22/2007 12:12:21 AM

i took it when i was in high school & it made my blood pressure really high
it was very popular among the pill heads though

1/22/2007 12:29:21 AM

^^how many mg's were you taking?

1/22/2007 1:45:00 PM

yes
yes
no
it got the job done

1/22/2007 1:49:03 PM

i use them during exam time, the 650 MG, 12 hour time release. kinda odd feeling, i was awake and alert but i felt like a zombie. i'd use it to stay up 24 hours at a time, when it was all over id crash for roughly an equal amount of time. got me through cram sessions though, no reservations about using them again this semester.

1/22/2007 6:51:26 PM

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"^^how many mg's were you taking?"

it's been a few years, so i don't remember the dosage, but i do remember it being a yellow cylindrical pill, and according to this drug website, that's the 18mg version

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"i use them during exam time, the 650 MG, 12 hour time release"

Is that a typo???

1/22/2007 7:20:57 PM

i took it from 12th grade until junior year of college
i prefer my Adderall XR to the Concerta XR

there is no 650MG XR Concerta. I'm pretty sure it goes up by 18s, at least the pills i had for it did. so maybe you took 54 or 72mg....

1/22/2007 7:47:25 PM

54 is as big as you can get, though I wish they had the 72. As it is, it costs me twice as much because I take 72 mg a day (twice the number of pills per day, and the price is pretty much a flat rate regardless of the dose), followed by a small cap of Ritalin if I need it.

And hell yes, I need it. Everything becomes confusion unless I try REALLY hard to keep it in line, and keep my workload to a minimum. I took Adderal throughout my junior and senior years, and in retrospect, I really should have taken a significantly larger dose. Concerta at the dose I'm taking is something that finally seems to work somewhat.

At my job, keeping my workload to a minimum just doesn't happen.

1/22/2007 8:30:57 PM

yeah, my fault, they were 72MG, thats sleep deprivation for ya.

1/25/2007 7:12:37 PM