Posted by JohnDoenut on February 7, 2003, at 22:30:14
In reply to ADDERALL USERS PLEASE READ!!!!!!!!! , posted by Dolewhite on February 7, 2003, at 18:54:55
> My question is, are there any adults who have taken Adderall for a while? What is it like ? Does it work? Do you build up a tolerance after a while? I've read that it works wonders for about 2 years then it kind of goes downhill from there. Whats your opinion?
>First of all I think it varies from person to person. From what I've read it is possible to build up a tolerance to any drug but of course that all depends on the drug and a person's individual body chemistry. One thing I read said that the brain attempts to reach equilibrium so that if you take a drug which increases a particular neurotransmitter, the brain will eventually compensate by creating more receptors. Thus the drug is not as effective anymore and one needs to try something else. A couple good books to read which talk about this is Driven To Distraction and Answers to Distraction. I think one is mentioned in the books section here.
Personally adderal was working well for me but then recently I underwent some sort of mood or biorythm change and it started making my sleepy instead of alert. So I started taking ritalin instead and Im doing fine on that. I still have the adderall and may use it again after I've given it a rest and maybe the ritalin seems to not work as well at some point. So you might as well just try it and as long as it works then you're fine!
J
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