adderall, aggression and potential withdrawal affects

Guest06 · Guest

I began taking adderall about a month ago. The first few days/weeks were too good to be true. I had taken Straterra about 3 years ago, and noticed some effect, but the sexual side effects outweighed any good.

After an amazing first few weeks on the Adderall, insomina and sleep deprivation gradually caught up and I noticed mood swings and the need for more dossage. Has anyone else noticed that as the meds wear off that unexplained aggression or rage emerges?
The disturbing aspect is that it isn't my normal behavior, and it goes away if I take a pill.

I tried going off of the meds to see if it made a positive difference, but experienced such extreme exhaustion that I was forced to resume the meds.

2 questions:
1. any other aggression experiences, if so how did you remedy.
2. if I decided to go off the meds, what happens? withdrawal symptoms?
Can anything positive result from going back to "normal?"

Guest · Guest

hey i've been taking addrerall for years and i've found that if i take a "vacation day" once a week it cuts down on tolerance and side effects dramatically. If you work a normal 9 to 5 a good day would be sunday. it can really help you if you take it responsibly and don't look for the buzz to know its working. the buzz goes away after a little while but the focus stays

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im curently off it i had taken it for 8 years and got off it.it was the most unpleasent expirience iv ever had.but it did go away after like 2-3 weeks and just recently i had ben put on it agin but i took the same dosage as when i had ben taking it before 50 milagrams,and it was a bad idea i mean i hated it and i felt way outa my normal state of mind so i stoped taking it and agin am going thru the withdrawl and the only thing i find to help is no its ganna hapen so do what u got to and take and think to give u energy so u can function with out feeling the need to sleep or lay down. all in all the afecs of aderall r not worth the withdrawl and mental change in mood. Very Happy

Guest · Guest

I was on adderall xr for almost two years, and I did experience the major mood swings. Ecspecially when i got off it, or forgot to take it for a day. I did what the previous person said, I would take one day that i could sleep and hang around not doing too much of anything and not take any adderall. Also the insomnia never quite went away, but one way it was easier to counter it was if i woke up pretty early in the morning and excercised, I would take my adderall when i first woke up so by the time i got to the gym i was wide awake and ready. By the tiime i hit the pillow at tnight i could fall right asleep by 930 or so. When I got off it i had some serious withdrawl, it was the type of horirble mood swings you have experienced, and being very angry with everyone, last about id say weeks, I also gained some weight slowly over the course of a year after I went off it. Good luck

Upton O'Goode · Silver Member Joined: 30 Jul 2007 Posts: 174

I sometimes take less on the weekends if I think I might need to catch up on my sleep or if I get busy and forget to take my second dose and realize it's much too late. (You should never take Adderall after around 2:00 PM, and ideally you should take your last dose at noon.) I start to feel scattered and frustrated, like my old self, but I wouldn't say that I feel aggressive, although I probably anger more easily.

By the way, when I first started taking Adderall, I found I couldn't go to sleep at my normal bedtime. At first this scared me because I had just been diagnosed with sleep apnea about a year before and had been profoundly sleep-deprived. I found I needed at least 8 hours of sleep, with a CPAP machine, to be completely alert during the day. I thought the Adderall was going to make it impossible to get that much sleep and I'd have to choose between being alert or being focused.

But after the first week, getting about 6 or 7 hours of sleep, I was surprised to find that it simply wasn't catching up with me. I wasn't nodding off and I was waking up before my alarm went off about 80% of the time--better than I had been doing before.

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I'm a freshman in college and I've taken adderall for about six years. I started on 30 mg but later dropped it to 15 mg. This past summer, before my first year of college, I stopped taking it to gain some weight back and to reduce my tolerance. I've noticed now that if I decided to take it just for one day, if I don't take it again the next day I get extremely irritable and experience episodes of explosive rage at little things like mild traffic and whatever. Then my mood deteriorates into bleak depression. I have found though that drinking a pot of black coffee really helps feed my stimulant needs and improves my mood. But I am concerned about the horrible withdrawal symptoms. But if I don't take it I will undoubtedly fail out of school. (I'm an engineering student at the University of Texas, Austin). I'm at a loss for what to do. Sad

Guest · Guest

whoa crazy

im an engineering student at UT also. I just started taking adderall two months ago. I already feel like im building up a bit of a tolerance. I guess the first month or two were too good to be true.

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I have been on adderall for almost a year now and had to keep upping my dossage. A couple of months ago I started taking supplements that have drastically lowered my tollerance and now I take about half of what I was taking, which is now 20 to 30 mg a day. I take a 10 in the morning, and another after lunch, then if I have to study or do homework I take another 10 around 5 or 6. I am alert as late as I need to be, but then whenever I decide to go to bed, I take a 200mg L-Theanine which inhibits the stimulatory properties of adderall and caffeine. Like an on/off switch. It takes about 20 minutes before I feel that its working, and then I can go right to sleep. Its a great change from not being able to sleep no matter how hard I would try.

am333 · Newbie Joined: 17 Nov 2007 Posts: 1

I am an artist and a full time yoga instructor and I have had Add since I was a kid but no one caught on to it... I was just a "daydreamer". I have always had trouble concentrating and finishing anything and forget about sitting still. Sometimes I can but it takes sooooo much will power and even then my feet or my hands are moving at lightening speed figeting with something. I had a big project I had to finish this week and asked a friend of mine if I could have an adderall to get me through the night to concentrate. I had taken one pill a few years back and was floored at the effects. The pill I took this week was a 20mg and I have never been so clear headed and elated in my life. I was like wow! is this how normal people think? I was able to accomplish everything I had to do and my self esteem and reminder thoughts to think about good things was off the hook! I don't have insurance or even a doctor and would love a low dose prescription of this but I know it is regulated heavily. Does anyone know how I could go about getting a prescription? Or really even finding or talking with a doctor about it. Can you request specific drugs? I am 29 years old and a professional and am not interested in abusing it, I just really want clear thoughts and the ability to function efficently...
The only side effects was the sadness of my scattered mind coming back the next day.

Guest · Guest

I am so upset that you would even ask to get meds. without an rx!!! This medicine can be dangerous. People like you are the reason children are getting ahold of these meds. and dying!!!!!!!!! The person you get it from illegally might just be the one a kid got it from and over dosed and died!!!!!!!!!!! If there isn't a demand for it illegally then this wouln't be a problem!!!!!!!!! BOO WHO!!!! Go to the doctor like the rest of us and get it legally!!! Theres a reason why is regulated heavily!!!!!!!!!

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