- Dopamine Lack and ADD-Like Symptoms

[Guest guest]

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A pharmacist friend has lent me his textbook and I've been researching

the three neurotransmitters, too.

According to the adult ADD books I've been reading, ADDers suffer from

LOW dopamine. The ADD-like symptoms we have include brainfog,

inability to screen out extraneous stimuli, even irritability. So,

unlike you, I'm looking for antideps and stimulants that *increase*

dopamine right now. I notice that you feel dopamine hurts you. Can you

say how/why? BTW, accd. to this textbook, Dopamine functions in the

production of norepinephrine.

Something that confuses me: why do the tricyclics, which also meddle

with the three neurotransmitters, make us SLEEPY (and gain weight!)

while the " newer antideps " make many of us jittery and INSOMNIAC--when

they're all mostly increasing the availability (i.e., usually, that is,

inhibiting the reuptake) of one or more of these same neurotransmitters?

I'll see if my pharmacist friend can explain. It can't just be

idosyncratic responses.

Lynea