Posted by reese1 on March 18, 2002, at 17:46:19
In reply to d-amphetamine vs. l-amphetamine?, posted by MB on March 18, 2002, at 16:10:17
i should have some point of view since i took adderall for four/five years. only stopping twice. just the second time being recently.
first. i can't write,speak,think, to academically so in terms of term a term b i don't know
what i am curious about is this
what mg are you prescribed?
since adderall comes in
10mg
20mg
30mg
and i believe 5mg but i can't remember that far back when i started on it.-since the dosing of adderall, for me, was always different day to day, in terms of the effect i would get. One morning i could take 20mg and it would work great. the next day i could take 20mg and nothing. One day i could tolerate 40mg at once, and that would be the dose that would be appropriate another day it would either be way to much or way to little.
you're right about the anti-depressant impact. but then again each person has a different response to every anti-depressant. i took celexa for a long time. this pushed me up sometimes. i remembering taking paxil years ago. it threw me into an incredible manic state. others have told me paxil has made them tired. so the serzone could be speeding you up? but as you know it's all a fucking guessing game
IN TERMS OF THE STAGES OF THESE TERRIBLE SIDE EFFECTSit seems like there are three but i could be wrong.
1- initial reaction which is positive
2- hell
3- actual come down which doesn't sound like a problem.
like i said i could be wrong but it seems like all the serious shit is hapening in the middle period. Especially the crying, the feeling that everything is just to ugly to look at etc/ then there is the other part which is the goose bumps/ itching which is totally physical in a sense.
my guess would be, since you are you're own doctor in some ways, experiment with the dosage. if you have tenmg pills take a half instead of a hole.
i think you said you were taking 45mg a day
how was this broken up?
3x a day?
15mgpossibly wake up with 10mg. wait two/ two and half hours then take the other 5mg or possibly take 5mg (which may be way to little) wait an hour/ hour and half and take the ten or just try taking 5, 5, 5, and splitting them up in 30-45 min intervals.
that's my idea
adderall was one of the few drugs that i found helpful. the only reason i'm not taking it now is i switched to a new docotor who wanted me off of it. in terms of the other meds, concerta and whatever it's called, before trying those i would try the adderall xr
then if it's still fucking you up then switch to something else
hope something i said is worth something
poster:reese1
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