My ADHD-blog

Last week a big daily newspaper in Sweden, called AftonBladet has been writing a few articles about Strattera.
The medicine which I have been testing for a little more then a month.

The first story was about 2 doctors who are advisers concerning Strattera.
Because Strattera is still not on the market in Sweden.
I was one of 600 people who could test it with a license.

As you have read by now it was a hopeful beginning but a terrible ending.
After I stopped I felt the next day that I woke up out of a nightmare!
I was so relieved and so was my wife, because right away I felt better.
Not so aggressive and irritated!
Of course I still have the problems, big ,heavy disturbing problems.
But at least I'm a little more in control, not the medicine.

anyway to come back to the article in Aftonbladet, the second article was about the experience of a 15 year old boy.
He was getting serious suicide thoughts, which he never had before he used Strattera.
And a article about a 25 year old girl.
She was getting crazy thoughts like when she did see children walking in the street she felt like kicking them.
She never had those thoughts before.
Now when she stopped with Strattera, she feels so much better again! ( with other meds now)

I recognize the crazy thinking and feelings they had.
One moment, that bad moment as I described I had before Easter was also so extreme crazy.
I felt like I was laying on the ground in the woods, and that I had to call my wife to tell her she had to pick me up.
Because I could not walk anymore.
(which was a hallucination since I was normal and walking in the same time I had this thoughts)

I am so happy that this journalist took the effort to write those articles!
Because it will become more difficult for Eli Lilly ( the producer of Strattera)
to get it on the Swedish market. Since the experiences in Sweden are also not good, I don't see any reason
why they should put it open on the Swedish market.

I don't know where I read it, but I have read it that it was meant to be a anti depressiva from origin.
And that Eli Lilly ( the producer of Strattera) decided to market it as a ADHD medicine.
So that way they still good make money with it.
And the ADHD market is a growing market.
Although I must say that although I have ADHD myself, according to the hospital in a high grade,
I still think that allot of times people give themselves or their children to 'easy' the label ADHD.
So many symptoms can also be caused by other or handicaps ,whatever you want to call it.

The reporter ask for my name and telephone nr.
I gave it to him, but will not give an interview in my own name.
The reason i simple: I have 2 companies and I have a fulltime job.
I don't want to be known as the one with ADHD.
I want to know as a 'normal' hard worker and company owner.

And the attention should not go to me. But to the fact that Straterra is a dangerous and bad medicine what should not be allowed on the Swedish market.

The blog is getting way to long again, so I better stop.
I'll let you know if they are going to interview me, and if it gets published.
And most of all I hope that I might be able to report later that the medicine will not be allowed on the Swedish market!