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I started on 5 mg a day,With some help,but 15mg did the trick.My chest pain would be severe and it would come all of a sudden.  BUT, I've always been one to have chest pain.  I just seem to have alot more on Adderall.  You know your body better than anyone else and if it makes you uncomfortable, maybe you should get it checked out?  Just getting them to take a listen to your heart and tell you it's fine ought to help.  There is such a thing as chronic chest pain that has no serious root. I think  20mg may be too high of a dosage for me I will talk to my doc and see if we can try a lower dose.

Thanks,
Josh


Hi,

I am taking 20 mg of adderall XR which works great but am having a few side effects.  Any one else taking a lower dose and still experiencing the clinical effects.   I was taking metadate CD at 20mg w/ no clinical effects and no side effects then upped to  40mg started to see some clinical effects but the side effects where pretty bad. Now adderall at 20mg works very well but the side effects mainly Chest/ Muscle tightness (which the doc assures me is not heart related and that the stimulant can make your muscels tighten) So i was just wondering if any one was taking a lower dose and if it is effective... or did you start taking a lower dose and find it not effective.   Has any one else experienced these muscle pains in the chest/neck back area?

Thanks,
Josh

How long have you been taking it?  I had those problems when I first started with 20mg but after about 2 weeks they pretty much went away.  My doctor upped me to 40mg and I had all kinds of bad side effects taht wouldn't go away and I couldn't wait for them to go away any longer cause it was driving me crazy, so I went back to 20mg. The Max legth I have taken adderall without a break is about a week and 1/2  I have been on it for about a month but have had to stop once for 2 days per Dr's orders for a neurological eval.  and stopped this weekend because starting thursday  My chest pains where pretty bad and then friday I had a relally  headache so I took some excedrin (which has cafeine) then I went and gotr my BP checked and it was 150/95  higherst it's ever been.  MY BP has always been a bit high Metadate made it go higher with Adderall it's been ok.  the day I took adderall and excedrin it was very high so I skipped this weekend thinking my body needed a break.   I had to worked saturday morning and man did I  notice a difference I could clearly tell that I was un-medicated with regard to doing my job.  The rest of the weekend I was exhausted/ Unmotivated.    Today is monday I took my 20 mg this mornign and am back at work and things are going fine right now jnust slight chest paisn.  The chest pains are my worst side effect my Dr.  does not seem to be to worried about it but I still do.    All the official literature I read says if you experience chest paisn to stop taking immediatly  but I have seen people in this fourm report that chest pains are somewhat common.  how severe were your chest pains?  and after 2 weeks did they go away completely?

Thanks,
Josh