There is a new med called Strattera that is non-stimulant.  I believe it is the only one but I am not positive.

http://www.strattera.com/index.jsp

Strattera is very expensive, 40mg daily for 30 days will cost over 140 at walmart or Walgreen's.  I tried 80mg daily and it was 165 a month.

-Jaime

Peace & Luv,

Very simple  & very powerful....Thank you!

Continue to be Blessed!

If you read this bless your heart... I warn you now that it is going to be a long post... get out while you still can. heh   Lately I have been mourning food. Weird I know but I never realized how much food comforted me until I hit a few bumps in the road and really needed comfort... I wished I could eat to make myself eat to feel better and that is when I realized that I was a binge eater. That I used food to numb out the same way that an alcoholic uses beer to solve his problems. I can't eat anymore and I want to binge. I want to eat and I really cant... ugh - this is pathetic that I miss food. But it's almost like I lost a friend or something...   I am so overwhelmed in life right now. I work 25 hours a week in a pert time job that doesn’t even come close to paying my bills. I go to school and am enrolled in 15 credit hours. I should have graduated LAST year but I have changed my major 8 times! Yea only 8 lol. So I still have 2 years... and then I will be an elementary school teacher. I honestly cannot wait to be a teacher. I love kids and I think that I may have found the major that will stick... but you never know. I thought that about my last major too.    Aside from school and work I want so badly to have a life. I am only 23 so I should be having fun and partying and goin to bars and clubs and what not but I have an issue with those places. I hate crowds... I hate parties and being around large groups of people just stresses me out. I don’t drink cos of the surgery and the crippling fear that I will become an alcoholic. So bars and clubs are generally not fun for me. another thing that makes parties, bars, and clubs awkward and bad for me is I hate being touched... I don’t like it when I am close and touching other people... it goes along with bein overweight... I just don’t want people to touch me and be grossed out and I feel like I take up too much space and when I maneuver through a crowd I can’t help but think that the people that I am sayin excuse me to are thinking here comes fatty or some other negative comment. IDK it makes social settings weird for me. when I do hang out and what not it basically is me hanging out with the same group of friends from my school or my sister and her group of 35+ friends that play poker... I feel that I live an uuber lame life. I feel like I am missing out on my life at a single twenty something girl... but at the same time I am lost and confused and I have no idea what to do about it.    Then there is the guy issues... I want to date I want to fall in love and I thought that after losing 50lbs I was ready so in November I began dating. I met David on match.com and there was this instant connection. He and I dated the entire month of November and I truly fell for him. I really felt this amazing connection to David the way I never have with anyone. But David is bipolar and we have been off and on for the last 6 months. In between I have dated a few other guys and had no real connections the way that I connected with David. But David will not be easy to be with forever and yet I choose him... the only problem is that I don’t know if he chooses me. I think it all boils down to trust and IDK if I trust that he isn’t goin anywhere again. I want to but I just can’t seem to trust it the way I want to. IDK if he is in it for me or in it for sex or what... I just wish I was a mind reader.   Also, I really don’t know what to do with all the new attention that I am getting from guys... I mean really I don’t know how to handle compliments - they make me feel awkward and idk it’s weird. Although I have lost 136 lbs I feel like I look the exact same and I don’t have any confidence. NONE. pathetic I know but I don’t have any self worth and that has led to some bad choices. Like sex... I caved and had sex w. David... he made me feel wanted and although I wanted to wait til I was married I had sex w. David. When we are together I don’t regret that decision... when we are broken up I totally regret that I did. I feel that I have lost part of my identity as a Christian as someone living chastity and I feel bad for it.   I know that this is a lot of rambling but I just needed to get it all out there.  I am thinking of goin to counseling for the food addiction and body image issues... I think it may help me to vent... but IDK who to go to or if I would even be covered for counseling... UGH I am just feelin very FML at the moment.    

 Do you mean sick as in dumping or hangover sick? Wine was my drink of choice. I never made me dump or anything like that. But I definitely got hangovers.

You need to be honest with your doctor and yourself.  I'm sure they will be happy to help you. I know how hard it is to quit - you can't do it alone.

Not to start a "which wls is best" thing because I decided on the ds simply because my surgeon talked to me about all 3 and for the amount of weight I needed to lose the ds was my best option for surgery.  That being said, I am glad now that I decided to agree with my surgeons recommendation because I can take time released medications.

I still do not notice a difference when taking the medicatin but I have not been on it long.  I see the doctor tomorrow and I would imagine he will adjust the dosage.  He told me it can take a while to find the right dose.

-Jaime