Can some one please tell me what happened to me? Let me start by saying that thank go but i was just diaged with adhd inactive type it has pretty much ran my life but that is another story. I tried to find something related to my quest but could not find anything similar.
Well i have been taking Adderral xr 30 mg once a day for probably 6 days now i know i didnt give it much time but something happened that really disturbed me. What happend what on the 6 day that would be today i woke up took my normal perscribed dose and headed of to work. No i did not eat anything in the morning but i never eat in the morning. Well it almost seemed my medicine was not working like it did for the first so many days. The first day i took this med it was like a night and day diffrence and it was great, focus attention and i was very willing to do my job now. ok well i was getting the whole insomnia thing for like the two nights before last night, last night was the first full night of sleep i got but today it was terrible i had no energy and didnt feel like doing my work can anyone tell me what happened or is what they call a CRASH but i thought they did last very long?
O YEAH FORGOT TO MENTION IM AT WORK AND IM DOING A JOB THAT IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT THAT I FINISH TODAY!!!!!!!! AND THE ONLY OTHER PERSON JUST LEFT THAT I WAS FALLING BACK ON, JESUS NOW IM TOTALLY FREAKING OUT
LOL ILL POST BACK AND LET YOU KNOW IM I MAKE HAHAHA
COMENCE HYPERVENTILATING LOL
hi donny...i take adderall xr 30 mgs too. what probably happened is that your body was so exhausted from the two sleepless nights, that even your regular dose was not enough to jumpstart you. you also may need to have your dose adjusted. it is possible that after six days your dose just wasn't enough. my advice would be to keep a journal and record when you take your meds and all the different ways you feel during the day. then i would go over that with your psychiatrist. there are many meds for ADD...perhaps this is not the right one for you. your psychiatrist may notice something in your notes that tells him another med would be more appropriate. i have ADD, OCD, and Bipolar I disorder. I have basically been on every med out there...it took a lot of trial and error, a lot of frustration and work, but i did eventually find a combo that works great. your best tool, and best weapon in fighting disorders is knowing your stuff. read all you can about it, glance over the DSM in the section of ADD. Its important to know if you just have ADD, or ADHD because a different med may be more appropriate. talk to your psychiatrist...don't be afraid to voice your concerns..if you dont feel like you are being heard, find a new doctor...yes, its time consuming, and yes its annoying, but your health is the most important thing. if you are having trouble focusing on reading up on ADD or if it is just too overwhelming, ask a family member or trusted friend to do the research for you and go with you to your appointments as your advocate. I often would forget to tell my psychiatrist important things in my session, and then as i walked out I would berate myself for not making a list. this was a lot for me to deal with, so i just sucked it up, and asked my brother to go with me to my appointments. before each appt, we would get a cup of coffee and write a comprehensive list of what i needed to tell the doctor, and my questions, and so forth. then in the appt when i would inevitably go blank, my brother took over. it was comforting and very helpful. these are just some of my tips...i hope they help...and always remember, there is a med that will be perfect for you..you may have lucked out with your first try, or it may take a couple of hard years, like it did for me, to get on the right meds. either way, don't give up. good luckHey thanks for the reply i thought no one would give me a reply but anyways good info and about that writing stuff down before you go to docs office LOL ITS JUST LIKE U READ MY MIND LOL well just let me ask u a few more specific questions. The main symptom i had when i was diaged to adhd was VERY excessive day time sleepyness wich may be narcolypsy same med to treat it.
My question is being that im not the normal naturally hyper adhder and i have the oposite of reaction, needless to say in the begging while taking the adderal for the first couple times it made me feel like a gazillion bucks i had all the energy i needed to complete work not to much so that it was annoying to everyone.
ok ok question : does that feeling go away once the meds balance out or do you get it to a degree once youve been on it a while.
question 2 is there other meds that wont make me a zombie because i need all the energy i can get from gate remember this is why i even bother to get to the doc in the first place.
o and im going in on monday i just have the patience of a two year old
ok question one...the adderall will still do its job and help you focus...it wont become less effective. in time some of the annoying side effects will go away, you know the restless energy, and racing heart. your body will adjust to these. even though some of the same meds are prescribed for narcolepsy and adhd, its important to know what your exact diagnosis is. there are some meds for narcolepsy that arent for adhd and actually may work better for you if narcolepsy is your main problem.
if you have an appointment on monday and are afraid you wont be able to ask the right questions, write me back and tell me in a nutshell what you want to ask...doesn't matter if your thoughts are all over the place...i will be able to decipher. then i'll type up a list for you to take with you that you can print out. if all else fails, just give the doctor the list. the main question you want to ask which i'll write on the list is "what exactly brought you to the decision that i am adhd rather than narcoleptic? what exact symptoms to i exhibit that differentiate the two?
okay, gotta go now...i will look for your response later.
Donny I have had and am having a lot of the same troubles that you are. My doctor and I have been trying to find the right med and dosage for more than a year. I have the same type of ADD as you. Without stimulants I am dead tired and an air head. I have had better luck with Vyvanse. It is still very frustrating because one day I feel like a million bucks, very clear headed and motivated. Other days it just seems like it is not working. I just wish I could get some consistency. As hard as it is you just have to be patient and hope that your doctor is good. Good luck!Yeah thinker my exact diag was adhd minus hyper lol it called innactive type the reson i mentioned narcolypsy is because originally that was what i was gettin tested for. I had only a few simptoms of it not alot but the main ones i was complaining about. But that is kinda how i found out i was adhd. Now when i first took the med for adhd it was amazing to me, The diffrence was noticed right away i knew where everything was i did my job well and correctly and everything was going great until it seemed a light switch was fliped off. I know yesturday I was loosing my tools i couldnt keep my mind on the whole picture u know im a pipefitter by trade and really need to be able to understand what is going on with a whole pipeing system. Anyways im running off here but to experience how it I should be and to feel normal for a couple day and then just yank it away just like that really sucked. Im 24 years old with the patience of a two year old lol.
As far as the book yeah i have deff been keeping up on it for mon i cant wait im going to ask for him to take me off the xr i dont like it, i think if i took an instant type it would be alot easier for me to get around the loss of appetite too. Also i think im going to need something else with my adhd meds because it seems as though if something happens to get me a little upset its amplified like 100 times. O and i was tested for Narcolypsy i had sleep study done and so forth.
ok Just to updsate its day 7 and the meds are not making a diff at all im VERY forgetful and unable to get intrest in my job i decided to try and split the pill 50 50 i only took half of the med today but its not making a diff is it possible to need a stronger one already or might it be that the xr is relasing to little too long well i guess ill find out mon.