Long-term effects of Adderall

sorry I am bad at writing

Sorry that you may be a grammar nazi but I am bad at writing

I've just started taking it and have posted a question in "prescription stimulants" category. Any advice helps (:

What are you asking though

Hey Lauren, I know this post was a few years ago now but I wanted to see if things have gotten any better? Are you still taking the aderal? I've been taking it for a short period of time and am worried I the side effects which is how I came by this comment of yours. I agree it doesn't seem fair to give this to a child who doesn't know what they're getting into. Anyway, shoot me an email if you ever have time. Take care

I am a mother of an 11 year old child. I had to put him on a class in his school that will give him extra help to avoid him stay behind. He is in 5th grade and can barely write. He is very bright but his attention span is equal to that of a mosquito. Even when he is the one that asks the questions and one may conclude from his question he wants the answer if I take more than few seconds to repond he will look away and continue talking about something else.  He had no patience to listen to a story when he was a little boy, he did not liked me to sing, thigns that were slow were BORING! he would manifest his frustration with lots of tantrums and crying and even some little boy violence of bitting and hitting and crying.  Once he discovered video games, he became a centered boy, passive, and spends long hours entertained, the video game is fast and makes him happy; YET, school is a dissaster, he starts a test, answer one question and starts looking everywhere, when the 5 minutes mark comes finishes bubbling what ever in the paper. I then sit by him and call him every minute he gets his brain floating and he is able to finish but ends up all mad. Thinking is very hard for him, yet give him anything he likes and will learn it (video game, computer stuff) in less than 5 minutes, and finish a game hard level in one day. Not autistic, I have taken him every where. The problem with this is that people do not see what I see, the intelligent part of him and he feels he is dumb. His self steem is suffering.  As a mother I have two choices, let him as he is. I am afraid of addiction, heart and suddend death, and all the things you guys have mentioned. Garbage pickers also make good money. But, will he be happy that way?? will he feel he can do much more and will resent not being able to perform like others??, addiction? may be he'll discovered meth on his own and will find he can focuse with it and THEN will become and addict the worse way. May be he will feel in the future depressed for not living to his potential and end up addicted to alcohol or other to kill the pain inside.  May be giving him now a way to CONCENTRATE  and try to focus and learn will help him learn and achieve something and feel better about himself and with a little now, guided medication awake the part he needs to "know" of his brain to learn.  I have two choices and I will go for the medication and tomorrow if he posts here and my decision is wrong, I will say I did the best I could.   I have thought it well, and I have seen him suffer thinking he is less and dumb, lets see what happens with the medication.  The medication is not to make him intelligent is to help him use what he has.

I just not read this and my heart is breaking for you. I hope you are still with us and have started to heal.

I'm a Junior in highschool and i was prescribed conserta in 2nd grade. Then around 6th grade apperantly my ADHD was affecting me more and more negativly so i was then prescribed Aderall. My grades in school have never really been that great and i usually dont like to use my "ADHD" as an excuse but to be honest it has taken its toll. I can say that it is alot easier to stay on task but i my grades still suffer and it doesnt seem to do all that much to help but its kind of been just my usuall schedule to take it. Like i said while on it i still struggle to stay on task but i specifically notice my distractions when i am reading. I read very fluently its just that if i read a passage, by the time im done with it i have no idea what i read. You said your curios how it effects you mentally and physically. Im not a doctor, obviously, but from experiance i can say that physically my skin tends to be red and my face gets hot at times. Im a very active person and i always am running around and i can say that iv never experienced pain of any sort. Mentelly on the other hand i am alot more skeptical about how the medicine works. When i take it, like i said im deffinetly on task alot more, but i also tend to get chills and feel a sort of awkward feeling even though im a very social person. When im not on the medicine im alot more hyper. Iv always been the funny guy and i tend to laugh alot at stupid sh*t with my friends and to be honest its great but it isnt great when im avoiding my school work to do it. I dont know if its just me but the medicine also reduces my appitite quite a bit. Other the that the main problem im having, and the reason i looked up this topic was that i felt like i was being sort of dependant on it and most of all losing myself. I have been on drugs since i was 8 for my ADHD and i know what its like to be off them. The only time i really get hyper as i explained before is when im with my friends and being social. I need to take care of myself and as im writing this i think my advice to you is the same that i should give to myself. That is yes, we get distracted alot and yes, its alot harder to mangage than other people but as far as my grades go i can honestly say i can do better. It comes down to how much you want to be you, and not depend on the drug. Thanks for reading this and thanks for letting me write this. I feel like me actually saying it helped myself out alot too. -Dane

Long term effects of stimulant use might present as: marked impulsivity, hypervigilance, agitation/aggresion, decreased inhibition, short term memory impairment,  and personality disorder such as malignant narcissism. These adverse effects are all subject to numerous variables.

Lauren, I don't know if you see this, but how are you now???

wow i have fifty fifty custody of my daughter and last week her dad took her to the dr and she was put on adderall. and reading this article really scares me but i know my ex wont listen to me. because i dont feel she should be on it she just lacks disapline like alot of other kids now days and does what she wantse

God will never put you a task which you can't accomplish you can do it have FAITH and believe in him

I know exactly how you feel, except that I am 56 years old, just started taking Adderall 2 years ago and am at the exact same feeling as you just wrote. I don't know what to do either. My psychiatrist waits for me to tell him what to prescribe so I don't know where to get help. My husband knows what's going on but he abuses drugs and he doesn't really want me to stop Sty he just pretends everything is fine. Even when I stood in front of him and v yelled "Help! I'm in over my head and I'm about to go down! Please notice!" he just got quiet and never mentioned it again. That was over a year ago and it has just gotten worse. if I were in your situation though, I would show your doctor the post you wrote here exactly. Tell him you need help.

Lauren,

How are doing? 3 years have past since this post... As you may have found life has so much change, in fact its the main constant in our life, good or bad. Hope you are doing well.

Kevin

Read Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game saga. story of a 'gifted' boy who learns to make peace with the demon of efficiency; with his very existence-- throughout his entire life. The Demon has me too. Every soul is my enemy, and I must either pass their test, or beat it to a pulp. No friends, no trust. A lone soldier fighting an ever-losing battle with an alien race that I was once a member of. My soul; my very being yearns to be done fighting against the challenges that life serves me. Pride in my worth; and fear for it keeps me vigilant in... what, exactly? Analyzing every movement in a crowd of schoolmates; waiting, just waiting; daring one of them to challenge my drive to end the conflict. I am radioactive, a beast, a freak; the Demon. Every move is calculated to manipulate my teachers and other authority, to earn their 'respect' through an appearance of dedication and loyalty. I too have been living the lie, and have been doing it so well that I no longer know who I am anymore. The Demon has removed all sense of beauty in the world, and has replaced it with the intense, heart-throbbing desire to prove that through intellectual evolution I have passed far beyond the test that nature seems to be demanding that I take. You are not alone. -A Fellow Adderall Addict-