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I would also ask this.
Stratera was the first medication a doc put me on, and I was maybe 8 or 9 at most, but even I recall what was insufficiently described as more confidence and felt like better mood regulation overall.
But I was drug through the least consistent medical care for most of my childhood. If I wasn't making their lives miserable, then we just didnt go, no matter how horribly I was feeling etc etc.
I've been diagnosed with AdHd/ADD by 3 seperate doctors over my life already, each with a new suggested med, and currently having to wait a bit longer than I think is fair just have a fourth doctor do the same so that I can recieve meds in this state.
I've never been on any singular medication and dosage to speak on much of anything with certainty, but I do remember for a a moment that Stratera was helpful. I was only allowed to take it for a bottle or so I think, so i'm not sure.
Pretty sure that it was one the two least gut-affecting meds I have tried though.
Ritalin being the absolute worst, meth fucked with my stomach less than even the initial dose Ritalin did. I remember being upset with teachers all the time cause of how much time I felt I had to spend in the bathroom, so I was focused... on how anxious I was.
Meth sucks other ways though, so don't go get some cause you're tum tum hurts kids. Hands down thats the dumbest shit I ever did by a long lead.