Hello,
I totally know what you mean.... When I was 1st diagnosed with ADD and got prescribed Adderall I would do the same thing. Only a little worse... I am 23 now and in college we tend to drink often. I would end up going though this cycle where I would take my medicine then drink then medicine then drink. Cause they both made me crave the other one after time. I HAD to make myself stop doing that because I would end up running out b4 the end of the month and the next day was always like hell because we all know how impossible it can be to sleep on adderall. I would have real bad anxiety the next day also, expecially if I took more adderall to pep myself back up.
I have learned to control myself but for some reason when I am on Adderall... Drinking and Smoking ciggeretts always sounds good to me. I never even smoked ciggeretts b4 but now I catch myself craving them. Weird but I'm sure many others have seen this too.
As a WONDERFUL EXCELLET Suggestion to your question.... This works wonders... for coming down from the Adderall and if you ever have anxiety (I have horrible anxiety from the meds). See if your doctor will prescribe you script for Xanax. I would not have him prescribe you an anti-depresssent / anxiet med. simply because some of the antidepressants will cause you to get really messed up if you only have one or to drinks (ex.. Paxal).
HEY all!
I am 45, diagnosed ADD(no "H") in 01' Tried Ritalin (hated it) then stuck with Adderall. I have not taken it regularly during the last 5 years mainly because of being pregnant in 01' & 03' and obviously not wanting to risk my pregnancies.
BUT! Now that my little darlings are 3 & 5, currently I take between 20-30mg Adderall a day, on average 3 days a week. I am very conservative with it because I want it to continue working for me at a relatively low dosage.
I guess one could say I have regularly established drug holidays but I mainly take it when I have a lot to do and can't organize my brain enough to do it all. Anyway, I must be very sensitive to it because I am truly amazed by the people who have to take 50mgs or more every day to function.Yikes!! I still sometimes have problems sleeping on just 20mgs.
ANYWAY, back to my topic - I have always had a glass of wine or two in the evenings with dinner or such (again, except when I was pregnant) but on the days I do take my meds, I actually crave it more to counteract the irritability of coming down from Adderall.
So I am looking for feedback from others who feel the need to drink more with their meds. Upon self examination of my 'habits' I am assuming that since my 'normal' alcohol intake habit is already established it's a given that I would require (desire? crave?!) more on the med days which average about 4 to 5 glasses of wine! I don't like drinking more, it makes me feel like absolute c-r-a-p the next day.
Incidentally, I do not take more Adderall the next day to counteract the drinking as I refuse to get myself in a dangerous downward cycle of drinking and "upping". But sometimes it feels like this and, well, my self-discipline sucks and the wine is always there... No, it's not realistic to get rid of all my wine, we have a nice cellar in the back of our garage and we (hubby 'n me) simply enjoy our wine with meals or friends.. or both!
But does anyone else do the same thing?? Any suggestions? Thoughts? Opinions?
Thanks so much.
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