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I get terrible pain in my eye muscles and neck muscles. There are also cysts in my right eye. My eye and neck muscles pull tight and it feels like a knife is cutting behind my eye. I have been on Ritalin for twenty years and I think this is causing the damage, Thanky you. this has been going on everyday for 6 months and its getting worse. What must I do? Thank you. My right eye also feels like its swelling up and pulling into my skull. I get a panic attach as i take the ritalin cause i am waiting for it to cause muscle pain or pull my eyes into my skull. I am going through hell and yet Ritalin is the only drug that seems to help me with my ADD. I did not know long term use causes muscle damage. I take them everyday. what is wrong. thank you. The Pain is unbearable
Hello Dick,
Get a good massage therapist to work on your muscles. Get on a really good nutritional program to replace what you are losing by taking Ritalin. Take extra vitamins that feed your muscles. Magnesium is supposed to feed the muscles, along with calcium and vitamin D3.
Check out every alternative to Ritalin that you can find on the internet. There is the Drake Institute that is supposed to be a good alternative to medication. There is music therapy and many other forms of therapy. Perhaps a Naturopathic doctor could help you.
Depending on how serious your symptoms are that they are calling ADD, hopefully you could get off medication. There are brain exercises and all sorts of things available.
If you were in Utah, where I just moved, I could help you handle the traits that contribute to ADD but I have to work in person, or else with very good photos to determine traits and how to get them to work for you, rather than against you.
I wish I could help you more but I do encourage you to really get busy with research and see what you can do and get. I can be contacted through my website, www.personalityconsultant.com and there is a little more information there on ADD that might help you understand what is going on in your brain.
I wish you the best and would be glad to answer a private email again.
Sharon Crandall
www.personalityconsultant.com
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Sharon Crandall
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Behavior and learning challenges are usually caused by personality traits such as Restlessness, High Physical, Low Concentration, Wide Tolerance (spaciness), Force (anger), Aggressive, plus others. I can help in either area.
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25 years experience working with families, teaching them how to work with traits so they work for you, rather than against you. As mother of seven grown children and grandmother of 19, I have seen first hand the beauty of recognizing talents and potential in a child who is difficult to raise. I could not have raised my last daughter, who had a very strong personality, without this knowledge. Besides working with families, I have worked with individuals and businesses. The challenges are always the same--learning how to work with your own traits, plus learning how to handle trait differences between yourselves and others.
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