Adderrall Addiction | ADHD Information

I have been trying to find other people with a story similar to time.  So far what I have found makes me think I might be one of the few who has this bad of problem. 

I have been taking adderall for 6 years, at first I was taking it like I was suppose too.  But it didnt take long to realize if I pop and extra one I would have more energy.  I started with 20mg, then I kept getting my doctor to up it.  My last legal dosage I was prescribed a day was 90mg.  And then on top of that, I was tripling up my dosage.  So on an average day I was taking 270mg or more.  I would do this for 2 weeks then crash for two weeks.

 

Well they finally figured it out and I have been clean for 6 months.  But I cant get a staight answer how much damage I have done to myself.  I know I drasticlly messed with my sleeping and tolerance to other meds.  If I need sleeping pills (which I do every night)  I have to take 20- 25mg of Simply Sleep Which is 500mg.  And if I take Ambien I take 6 which is 60mg.  Then of course I sleep walk like crazy.  And again, I cant seem to get a straight answer to how much damage I am doing to myself.

 

If anyone has a similar story, plelase let me know.  I realize I am a big time addict even though I dont do any street drugs. 

Dinah - I urge you to get some professional counseling to find out why you feel the need to do this.  Prescription drugs are not meant for recreational use.  I'm not sure but I think that's illegal. 

I would also suggest having your doctor help you quit the sleeping pills.  You may be an insomniac for a while (or maybe permanently) but it's better than being a slave to some pill.

I had a problem with diuretics and laxatives about 10 years ago and I messed up my system.  But there's no way on God's green earth that I'm going to abuse myself like that again.  Life is too short, why make it shorter?

Lastly, the first step is recognizing you have a problem.  So, you're off to a good start.
not that it's really extreme like yours, but I have a problem stopping the adderall simply because of the strong compulsions to eat and thus the rapid weight gain I have when I stop taking adderall for two or more days.  I hate the side effects and the general ride of the medication, but I can't stand getting in the shower in the morning and discovering my new pot belly that I have to work off.  270 mg Adderall is absolutely ridiculous though, at some point you have to ask yourself what you're doing, I mean how can you take 9 pills in a day and not seriously consider what you are doing to yourself?  I've taken 90 mg before (I'm prescribed 60 mg a day) and it leads to serious insomnia and exaggerated side effects, it sucks.. Don't do that anymore.

I have stopped.  Its been 9 months since I have taken any.  I know my story is a case of total extreme.  It became a vicous circle for me, alot of it had to do with my super stressfull job.  That coupled with my bodys ability to build up some wacked out tolerance to meds made it far to easy for me to become how I became.  It was only taken during the work day becuase I could super focus for a 18 hour day.  But the next day I would feel like crap, so to keep working my insane shedule I would to it all over again.  I knew what I was doing was wrong, but I wasnt strong enough to stop what was going on.  It finally got to the point were I was impossible to be around and work with.  I held a very, very high position where I worked and it eventually lead to me lossing my job.  After I got clean and proved I was a new person, I regained my job and now head my own division of the company.  But I'll be honest, its a struggle everyday.  I now have untreated ADHD, so I have had to work twice as hard to just do things that come natural to most people. 

 

I believe I am a very very extreme case.  But on the other had, its an example of how someone who is smart and very sucsessfull in life can easily become an addict.