Medication & Weight Loss | ADHD Information

Thank you both for replying!

Well, I guess I am the only one experiencing this with ritalin.
Hmm... Ah well.

And my gawd! 5'3 and 107-110 is skinny! Be careful.
I'm 5'3 and I was skinny when I was 115 in high-school, over 10 years
ago! Maybe your frame is smaller than mine. I hope you're not losing
any more weight.

No more weight lost, I am small boned. I also have a very high tolerence to meds. Thats why I need a large dose (20mg 3 times a day) I don't abuse, it just takes that much to make a difference. I know some pple would be climbing the walls, not me, I just feel focused and somewhat motivated. I just move at a normal pace. W/out it I'm pretty worthless!

I hope I don't build up a tolorance, b/c I heard 60mg is the limit! But I still eat, just not as much.

oh yes the joys of fringe benefits,

its ironic that y'all are talking about this b/c i was thinking about posting a topic on how i feel inhibited about telling my psychiatrist that my wellbutrin+adderall combo has great fringe benefits: my sex drive is back w/ a vengeance (lexepro and paxil should only be given to old ppl that don't care about sex) i've lost 35 lbs..(paxil and lexepro made me gain that in the first place, you can eat 0 calories on paxil and still get fat)...and i don't want to tell my doc about all of this..and OH YEAH i have the most mind blowing orgasms as well.

i'm not trying to get all frisky here..its just a fact.  and i definitely will not be telling my psychiatrist that i not only do not want to get off of this combo b/c its saved my life ..i'm no longer absolutely clinically deppressed and i can finish things, i'm afraid she'll think i'm abusing my meds just b/c i have some other benefits other than the benefits the meds are prescribed for ..you know what i mean? 

its bad enough that adderall et al are so strictly governed, you don't want to go running into your psychiatrist's office and telling her : OMG this is giving me the best scary good orgasms i have ever had and now i don't want to kill myself anymore..i always put on the calmest impression i can of a person perhaps on zoloft so that she doesn't think that i'm some kind of addict.

is this just sheer paranoia? are there any others out there feeling the same way? i feel that my meds are such a good thing that i will be devestated if i didn't have access to them. its not an addiction as much as its the straight bare fear that i will recline to my cave of deppression and finally manage to off myself properly..b/b before i found this winning combination i had already succeeded in creating (what they call suicidal ideation- i.e. fantasy..never thought anyone would have fantasies of inhaling carbon monoxide? welcome to my world)  the perfect catalogue of emergency -eject plans...

i know its horrible, but i think i am just this way. this isn't a sob story post guys. these are the plain facts surrounding my sense that everything will be taken away from me b/c its too good to be true...

 

 

The weight loss is a bonus for me! Adderall makes you eat less, and at 47, I just might be able to put some serious poundage on! I've only been overweight as a pre-teen(baby fat it was called) I'm 5'3 and go between 107-110 pds. Now if I could just start exercizing again, I'd feel great! And also beable to wear a bikinni again.

And diets DO suck and I don't think I could ever watch pple eat and not go crazy. But w/adderall, it dosen't faze me

i've been diagnosed for 1 week now.  I started adderall 7 days ago and have lost weight. About 5 pounds.  I make sure I get my 3 squares but no appetite at all.  I used to make 5 or 6 raids on the kitchen for snacks at night.  I think I might have been using the snacking to focus.  I also used to go pop a bag of pocorn at work when needing to sit at the computer for a big project.  I think munching kept the distracted part of me busy while I was thinking and working in a focused way.

Anyway, at 42 I am thrilled that I am actually sliding down a bit.  I never could stick to a diet.  I have maintained about 15 pounds over my wish weight for several years, nice to see it getting distracted and wandering off!

Tigirl

One amazing thing that methylphenidate has done for me is:

*** my sense of being full has returned! ***

I think somehow I lost that feeling or forgot it, years ago... I would eat
and eat and definitely clean whatever was on my plate.

Since my meds, I eat and seriously cannot eat everything on my
plate (which are ridiculously large portions, anyway).

I still eat at least 3 meals a day, but I know when I am full. Now, my
extra chubbs are going away. Very nice.

Anyone else get this from their meds?