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Concerta/ Ritalin/ Adderall - prescription only ?

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  • 24-07-2013 4:40am
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    kvh14
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭


    Hi guys,

    I am prescribed Concerta which is a stimulant for people with ADD, it really does work. The thing is I should be on 90mg but my doctor keeps me on 60mg, I don't know why, my brother is younger and sees a child psychologist and also has ADD and he is on 90mg.

    Anyway I don't get prescribed enough because I take an extra tablet a day to make the 90mg and run out mid month and have to wait for a new prescription then. Is there a way to purchase Concerta/ Adderall/ Ritalin besides being prescribed from your GP? Would be brilliant.
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    kneemos
    Registered Users Posts: 20,430 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Have a heart to heart with you're doctor would be the way to go.Medical advice aint allowed here,particularly illegal advice.


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    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users Posts: 24,494 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    Take what you are prescribed, not what you think is the right amount and talk to your doctor.


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    kvh14
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭kvh14


    Yeah making an appointment for today with my Doctor first thing, I never really asked my doctor to up my dosage because he always suggested that I should only be using these tablets as a temporary measure so didn't want to push it. It might not be a problem at all :) Sorry I know this post must look dodgy, swear I'm not a drug addict haha.


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    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users Posts: 17,797 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    I'm in two minds about this.
    Ireland's nanny state problem is completely out of control (WTFH at not being able to buy tribulus for example?!) and far too many things are prescription only especially for example when you look at sports supplements and compare what's legal here to even NI or the UK, it's ridiculous.

    On the other hand... Stuff like adderall etc, I would absolutely hate to see a situation developing here in which parents started to give these to little boys because they have too much energy for being mini professors in their pre-teens. The situation in the states over ADHD panic is absolutely horrifying, children are essentially being medicated to make them stop being children, and this is literally the last thing Ireland needs...

    This is why we can't have nice things.


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    mikeruurds
    Registered Users Posts: 1,870 ✭✭✭mikeruurds


    You can add St. John's Wort (anti-depression) and Ginkgo Biloba (dementia treatment and nootropic) to your Tribulus example. Relatively harmless herbs that are OTC everywhere else and used as an alternative to prescription meds but outlawed in Ireland.

    Nanny state indeed.


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    Artful_Badger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,339 ✭✭✭Artful_Badger


    Take a few lines of speed, same thing.


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    Penn
    Registered Users Posts: 33,603 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    kvh14 wrote: »
    Sorry I know this post must look dodgy

    Yes. It does.

    Thread locked. No medical advice allowed.


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