Many thanks egoalien for your feedback. Especially, thank you for cautioning me about the rebound-depression. That might be very dangerous for me, because I have a history of suicidal ideation, (but no history of any attempt.) You've motivated me to keep my prescription current and not run out. If that happened, I might be too depressed to get out of the house and get the prescription and the drug. That's why I posted here. When something seems a little extra good, I gotta ask myself what's the hidden price. This drug does not take my depression away - as you say is the case with yourself. But, exactly as you say, "it has a definite positive effect that antidepressants alone do not seem to have on me." And, yes, it fails when things get rough. Still, right now I'm grateful for it. I am getting up in the morning better now. It can be calming, even though I know it is categorized as a stimulant. My depression is unipolar. My pdoc says we may go to the long-acting version down the line. I've said that I want to just keep it the way it is for now. He is also interested in upping the dose. Now I take 30mg at 8am and 30mg at 12 noon. He is quite enthused about upping it even further. After years of experience with meds, I say lets stick to what we'er doing now for awhile longer, before making another change. I haven't had any heart racing, which he has asked me about. It is interesting to me that it was the LA version that caused your heart racing, though I'm glad that leveled out. Short acting compared to long acting is interesting, because there can be relative downsides to both. LA isn't always better than SA, but certainly more convenient - and sometimes better all in all. I too have tended to be hypersomnic when very depressed. But the Ritalin has normalized that out a good bit.

Thank you again for important feedback.