Really interesting thread. I'm glad to come across it! I was dx as adhd at 28, after 8 years of being wrongly dx as bipolar and treated with a bunch of psych meds that did nothing except add more issues and made me gain weight when I was healthy body-wise before that. Fast forward 4 years and yeah, I am definitely adhd amd have been since toddlerhood going off of family stories. My mom told me after I got properly diagnosed that she has inattentive adhd bu5 doesn't believe in medicating or diagnosing it. Thanks, Ma. 8 years of wasted life there with doctors throwing the kitchen sink at me.
Anyways, what I find curous about this is that the teso seems to have SNRI properties. I tried one years ago, welbutrin, when I wasn't happy with sertraline because of the sexual numbing. It made me go crazy. It made it seem like I was manic. I got off of it after like 2 weeks but that reaction perpetuated the false bipolar dx for another couple years because we kept bringing it up as 'that one time I definitely had a manic episode'. Turns out it was just a rare reaction to welbutrin. I am absolutely not bipolar and never have been. I just had bad depression and severe adhd symptoms that were uncontrolled/ unacknowledged for my entire life.
In any case. I'm curious about the teso after reading this but concerned about another welbutrin-esq reaction. I don't love the adderal xr I am on currently and only take it 1x a week. But the other 6 days I am a slug of a human so that's not ideal.
Anyways, what I find curous about this is that the teso seems to have SNRI properties. I tried one years ago, welbutrin, when I wasn't happy with sertraline because of the sexual numbing. It made me go crazy. It made it seem like I was manic. I got off of it after like 2 weeks but that reaction perpetuated the false bipolar dx for another couple years because we kept bringing it up as 'that one time I definitely had a manic episode'. Turns out it was just a rare reaction to welbutrin. I am absolutely not bipolar and never have been. I just had bad depression and severe adhd symptoms that were uncontrolled/ unacknowledged for my entire life.
In any case. I'm curious about the teso after reading this but concerned about another welbutrin-esq reaction. I don't love the adderal xr I am on currently and only take it 1x a week. But the other 6 days I am a slug of a human so that's not ideal.
