ritalin

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I'm not using ritalin, I'm using Dextro-amphetamine. 10 mg in the

morning on waking, which is all I need it for, taking more later does

not make me more alert and was thus discontinued. I am taking the

same amount now as when I started two or three years ago (an less if

you conside I dose only once a day). It seems to put my sleep/wake

switch in the 'on' position, just as the dose of Hacion .25 mg, puts

me in the 'off' position, that dose has actually been taken down and

continues to work. Without either I am either contiously alert or

continuously sleepy. In that sense I am dependant (which is not the

same as addicted). I have no side effects, and for as long as that is

the case I expect to use these two. Ritalin has been on the market a

very long time (as the two I am taking), the advantage is that the

track record is well known and mechanisms understood. I would

hesitate greatly to take a new medication whcih does not have that as

a benefit.