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Yeah ADHD meds regulate neurotransmitters by boosting Dopamine and Norepinephrine in the brain, which can improve fluency for some stutterers, not all. For others, dopamine antagonists help more with...

Research shows that, depending on the group, ritalin can both ease and worsen stutter. Looks like for some people stuttering is indeed caused by dopamine dysregulation, while for others it's something...

Substances That Help and Hurt My Stutter (Personal Experience)

Substances That Help and Hurt My Stutter (Personal Experience) I started stuttering at 13 and have always had periods of fluency and dysfluency. Sometimes I’ll go for weeks speaking pretty fluently, o...

Propranolol is good when not used regularly… when I start taking it frequently my body will find a way to stutter so I will end up just stuttering and having the side effects of propranolol...

Yes! I have been on Vyvanse and Ritalin, it reduces my stutter but when the medication wears off I'm left almost mute! I had to stop taking it because I couldn't handle the insanely anxious crash!...

Thank you so much for this reply, I’ve actually thought about therapy for not only my stutter but also my anxiety and depression and delusions as well, but working overnights means that even if I did ...

I don’t consume any drugs or substances at all anymore, and doctors say there's nothing medically wrong. It's just my air flow gets disrupted more than the average stutterer. There’s varying degrees o...

Get a neurological, brain scan to rule out tumors. Perhaps your medications are making your speech more difficult. Legal and illegal drugs, and alcohol can affect fluency. When you sing, do you stutte...

My son (21) started at 5 and went to 10 and speech improved. Went to 15 and felt awful. Back to 10...now going to try 5 and see if speech is better or unchanged and hopefully with less side affects (f...

I tried Abilify, started at 2.5mg and went up to 5mg in about 2 weeks. I had to stop taking it because I was getting blurry vision and not enough improvement in fluency to excuse that side effect. 3...

How effective is speech therapy?

How effective is speech therapy? Hello, im 23 years old, male, i dont have a severe stutter but it can become and worsen the more anxious i feel and the more i think about it, i have never done any ty...

Hmmmmm…. You’re in quite a few meds there, and Ozcarbazepine could be the culprit. Have you told your Psychiatrist about this sudden onset of stuttering? Ozcarbazepine blocks voltage-gated sodium cha...

What “neurodivergence medication” are you on? Did your stutter start after starting these meds?...

Yeah, I accidentally became dependent on benzodiazepines many years ago trying to find ways to reduce the stutter. Talk about a hellish withdrawal!...

At lower doses yeah but when I took too much I was just TWEAKING and speaking was extremely hard lol....

I'm trying to think whether any drug actually improved my speech fluency (not only anxiety) and tbh I don't think there was any. I've done over 25 drugs. Most popular benzos, opioids, amphetamines, ot...

Stuttering and anxiety

Stuttering and anxiety Hello guys 24m just wanted to see if anyone has some advice. I have had a stutter and anxiety since I was very young but I feel like it’s been getting worse as I get older I’ve ...

Nooo that’s not the way to go, I took antidepressants in high school and also anxiety meds. Worst thing ever, made me feel like I wasn’t myself at all and made me feel like a robot. Make friends or fi...

"Valeriana officinalis (valerian root) was found to significantly increase dopamine levels in all tested brain regions, except for the cerebral cortex and hippocampus.”It did not have any noticeable e...

that really sucks you're going through this, especially when the meds are helping in other ways. definitely talk to your prescribing doc about the stutter getting worse, they might be able to adjust d...