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Concentration medacine did n't help my son or I with school. It worked very little. We are kinetic/auditory learners not visual ones.

Hi there,

I'm very interested to know if any of you who take meds could share your success stories. Is your current treatment REALLY helping you? THanks

I take (generic) Adderall 20mgs 3-4 times a day. 20mgs last about 3 hours. It has made an AMAZING difference in my life. I've never been so focused, organized and productive. I'm finishing college (finally). Being able to accomplish things has improved my self-esteem, which in turn has improved my relationships. There are a few side effects (dry mouth, the usual) but I'll take 'em!Helps me mucho. I'm married, 4 kids, one married, 3 have ADHD, I'm still married, 3 kids at home, one got married. I work successively successively successfully, in that I have unprovoked career moves frequently, but always land on my feet, doing better and better. I'm a scientist/business manager. I publish, I create, I invent, I sell. I have figlets of my imagination that get out once in a while.

I'm on RitLA 60mg for 4 years, Provigil 400mg for 3 years, Cymbalta 120 mg for 2 months (formerly Effexor 600 mg). I've been trialed on about 15 regimes over the last 8 years, and they had some effect, some good, some bad. This is so far getting close to being the best. However, I still maintain that before this saga started, I was fine, it was everyone else who wasn't...

Barb wants me to write a success story, so I will ADD it to the collection of many projects I have going at once, trouble following through, but I invited her to volunteer to finish up, so maybe, we'll get something printable. Will one page do?

Hey Barb, you forgot that I forgot where I put that Arts in Crafts. You'll have to guide me there, b/c this forumat doesn't have a worksearch tool. And after 380 some psots, I've no idea what I've said. Maybe I should write a disclaimer. I"ll put that on my procrastination list, where I deal with it by waiting until the last minute...
Hey, Parrothead how long have you been able to maintain these optimum results on the aforementioned dosage? Years? Months? I'm dying to know. I'm starting to really want to try out the non-XR of Adderall. Can't tell too much difference with my 15 mg. dosage only once a day. When I've taken it twice, I think I can tell. But it seems most people post that you WILL know when you take it, seem/feel happier & right now I just feel like I'm guessing or it's psychosomatic.Hey Terrihead, you never told me it was 15mg XR! No wonder you wonder. Either you're a babe, or very skinny. Either you're black and white. That's like 1.25 mg/hr. I kick it with 10 mg/hr, plus whatever the Cym is worth. Either I'm wired and severe.

Hey, speaking of kicking a habit, remember my bp was skying the other day, so I quit trimethylxanthine? Well, my bp has torped, and I've had these killer headaches (like, wow, for me they are, zuc I never get them), and my Pharm said I'm going through withdrawals! Can you believe that! Like I was addicted or something like that... Anyway, yesterday I woke up with a bp of 90/40. I thought I was dead. Wow. Maybe I'm bi. Bi-bp. From 164/106 to 90/40. Hey, once I was in a wreck (it was not my fault, honest), after not eating, except potato chips and coke, and my bp at the hospital was 210/160. I thought I was dead. woW. Maybi I'm be. Be-pb.
All I can see is potato chips strewn all about a wrecked automobile. I'm in a complete fog. So the massive almost-migraines that antibiotics can't prevent & Vicodin can't relieve are withdrawls? Good to know--I must be withdrawing fromthe Thermogenic pills. I guess. Or I'm just sick. But if I was just sick I should have cured by some of the above (Advil-icodin-icillin-ijuana-afed).Considering I cheated and read your other posting a/b finding out you were sickl (see, your husband was right!), sounds like your headaches might be more than just trimethylxanthine withdrawals. But they may have crystalized the migraines...

[QUOTE=terrie]Hey, Parrothead how long have you been able to maintain these optimum results on the aforementioned dosage? Years? Months? I'm dying to know. I'm starting to really want to try out the non-XR of Adderall. Can't tell too much difference with my 15 mg. dosage only once a day. When I've taken it twice, I think I can tell. But it seems most people post that you WILL know when you take it, seem/feel happier & right now I just feel like I'm guessing or it's psychosomatic.[/QUOTE]

I've been on this dosage about 9 months, before that I took 20mgs 2-3x a day, skipping weekends trying to make my prescription last. I had that 'euphoria' for about the first 6 weeks when I'd take it, but that's worn off. Too bad, cuz I liked it! But that's OK, that's not why I take it. However, the adderall does allow me to focus, organize and actually get things done - which makes me feel better about myself, and as a result I'm just a happier person overall. My outlook on life has improved 1000% and I'm optimistic about the future.

That's totally cool--I'm happy for you. I do the same thing--skip weekends so my meds will last longer--too expensive! My high lasted the first day only--what a rip! But, like you say, that's not why I'm on it. The addict in me (pretty much ALL of me) will just have to buck-up. (No, that's not a miss-spelling . . .

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