Just back from GP got Adderall script | ADHD Information

Ironic, my Doctor's Father diagnosed me we adhd 30 years ago and put me on ritalin.  His Father was a great man, a great loving Dr.  He sewed up my head from my adhd accidents more times than i can remember.

I gave him the 61 question self-test, and talked to him...he relized right away and prescribed me the Adderall.

Even more Ironic, I told him how much I loved his dad as a child, and he told me if he was still alive this would have been his birthday.

OpenYourEyes38202.4728703704OpenYourEyes, Good luck with your new prescription.  Keep us posted on your progress.  What dosage are you on?  I just started Adderall XR 15 mg about 10 days ago and I really haven't noticed much of a difference.  I am thinking about contacting my psychiatrist to see if he will up the dosage.  I'm not sure how much longer I should give this.  Anybody have suggestions on how long it should take Adderall XR to make a difference?  -Gettingagrip-

I'm on 30mg of XR.  It's supposed to work immediately.  But, Doc says the changes can be subtle in adults, especially if you aren't challenging your mind in school or new job.  I'm in a very ADD challenging situation with new job training...I'll know more about it later.

Open Your Eyes, where do you take this 61 question self test? Is this something available on line?

I take 10 mg XR in the a.m. then a 5 mg booster dose around 4pm.  I noticed the difference fairly quickly.  However, I have noticed fluctations of the med working great on some days and seemingly not at all on other days.  I heard that PMS can pretty much null and void any ADD med and I think that is true. 

So it may depend on your mood any given day, what you have eaten, how much sleep you got, etc.  I think you pretty much feel the full effect when you are eating well and getting enough sleep.  IMHO. 

Well, on just two hours of sleep and first day on adderall xr 30mg, I learned more in one day than Ive learned the entire week in this training I'm doing for  a new job.  The effects have been amazing.  I feel like i'm finally waking up from a deep sleep.  I feel normal.  I can concentrate and focus.  I'm pretty happy with the results.  Thanks for the help everyone.

I'm really happy for you! Glad things are going well.

Gettingagrip, sounds like your dose is too low! Or you could try other medications  and see if your system reacts better to those? But I'm willing to bet it's the dosing and OenYourEyes is right, but you should have noticed it by now!

Hey guys just some of my input on Adderall XR....As an pharmacist with ADD, I have never been too thrilled about any sustained-release dosage form. First of all..i did start on immediate release and was pretty happy with the results..I then switched from 15mg immediate to 20mg XR and didn't feel the am "kick" that I liked...felt no benefit at all on some days....and....constipation!!

I realize that the XR works great in some people ...but for me I like the control I have with the immediate release..."control-freak" issues I know...whatever.

My current regimen (2 months post diagnosis) is 15mg with 2 cups of coffee in am (whenever I get up),10 mg approx. four hours later and 5mg in early evening (usually no later than 6pm). For the record I have been sleeping consistently well for the first time in years...an unexpected benefit!!

I also noticed some afternoon "breakthrough crankiness" on the XR...I guess that occurs while waiting for the second "wave" of pellets to kick in. I avoid that with the immediate-release by spacing those am/pm doses by no more than 4 hours.

Bottom line...I have been damn impressed with Adderall overall and can't imagine switching to any other stimulant at this time.

This is so interesting. I've been on prozac for about ten, maybe
15 years which definitely helped end distinctive severe
depressive episodes of obsessive negative thoughts during
unproductive periods. It did not really help with procrastination,
general low energy, potheadedness, severe disorganization
and continual failure to follow-thru on brilliantly executed
beginnings. Three years ago I embraced the opportunity to take
on larger responsibilites. Early in July I began to realize that
the above-mentioned faults needed to be addressed more
directly or serious legal and financial consequences would
threaten me and my family. Groping for solutions I wondered if
psychopharmacology might not say that Prozac was only
partially successful, and have something more to add,
especailly as I had heard that a lot of people had tweaked and
improved on the anti-depressent regimens of the last decade. I
went to a psychiatrist and questioned whether there might be a
more stimulating anti-depressant. He added Provigil to the
Prozac, and very soon I felt, likeOpenYrEyes, that I had
awakened after a long sleep. More specifically tho I felt like a
sleepwalker awakening to find himself on a precipice. Then, in
reading about Provigil on the web I finally realized that I am
extreme and classic AHDH. The realization stuck -- but the
Provigil effect wore off quickly. Doubling the dose helped, but it
is prohibitively expensive and not covered by insurance except
for narcolepsy. So I went back to the shrink and announced that
I definitely has ADHD. Whereupon he prescribed AdderalXR
20mg. For the last week I've doubled up to 40mg daily, one
dose at 9 am, and I'm very pleased with the changes in my
behavior and awareness. I'd like to try 30mg (so I need to get
some 10s), because I don't want to take more than necessary,
and god forbid the effect should begin to wear off . . . I'll be able
to increase. Whew! Now I'm working with an organizer, an
adult add support group, a small business planner,
shamefacedly exposing my chaos to accountants, feel much
like an alcoholic facing his past. Realizing how much of my
personality, opinions, positions, which I have taken to constitute
my Self, are in fact strategies to hide my faults and lapses and
detach myself from the pain of successive failures, wasted
opportunities and advantages, dropped friendships, etc. I am
still particularly haunted by several occasions on which I have
dropped important projects on the verge of completion, going
all the way back to childhood piano lessons when I could learn
difficult pieces all the way up to the last few measures, whichh I
would findd impossible to master even if they were
comparatively easy. I don't quite see how ADD explains such
such episodes, some of them quite embarrassing; but
somehow I believe it does. Anyone have similar experiences?

Good to talk to you all.

Best wishes,
Mark