you alone have to weigh the pros and cons of ritalin...if it is working for you, helping focus more, and it isn't doing anything to your blood pressure, then go with it...i am on 20 mg three times a day and my blood pressure is low. Lower than it has been in a while. So that is good. I know it doesn't work for everyone that way, so I am the oddball, not the norm, but not the abnormal either. However, since the warnings can be such that a stroke or heart attack could happen, I would give it a test run to see how you do. I hate the crash and burn that I get when the Ritalin wears off and before the next dose kicks in. So we are trying to get me on Concerta...it is a once a day pill and spreads itself over the entire day...have to say it would be an answer to the pill situation...is so much easier than taking the Ritalin three times a day at precisely the right time each day...

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