Comment on Discussion Thread 🚙 Friday 15 August 2025

• LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  At first it wasn’t great because I was having heart palpitations and crying spells. I lowered my dose to a quarter of a tablet and I don’t think it did much except increase my heart rate. I would go for a light walk and my HR would be around 140-150. My sleep has also been terrible but I think that’s because I’ve been waking up early and finding it hard to sleep at night at a decent time.

  I will be upping my dose today, potentially of the clonidine too, because that’s not doing anything either. Having a call with the psychiatrist on Tuesday and he might prescribe me non-stimulants, which are exorbitantly priced. I’ve wasted so much money on meds over the past few years that haven’t done anything or made the situation worse, so hopefully we’ll get to a good point. I’m thinking of trying skills over pills (e.g. time and stress management, using discipline over motivation).

  I have a fear of failure, to the point where I enter a freeze response, and end up failing. I think that’s the cause of my problems, and if I challenge the excuses that my brain makes and power through, I should be fine.

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  • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I understand that last paragraph really well.

    The non stimulant is probably called Zyban. And yeah it’s around 150 a month.

    Sorry you’ve had such a hard time with it. Tbh I did as well for about a month. It’s hard to put your life on hold for that long experimenting with dosage.

    Fingers crossed it works out with the psych :)

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    • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Thank you :)

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