Posted by Peter on August 21, 2003, at 13:13:19
In reply to Re: adderall problem - question » Peter , posted by blondegirl47 on August 21, 2003, at 12:14:28
> I take short acting adderall too. I think you are waiting too long to take your second dose. It only lasts about 4.5 hours for me.
>>>That's what I always thought; but the only way I could split up this 20mg total dose is 10mg bid, because if I split the dose up further and took like 10mg+5+5mg, I wouldn't feel any effect from the 5mg doses - too small. I seem to build up a tolerance pretty quick. I was taking 20mg + 10mg +10mg a while back, and I couldn't even feel the effect of the 10mg doses, so that's why I everntually decided upon twice -a-day dosing (20mg+20mg). If I hadn't, I would have had to continue to raise the dose yet again to something way too high.
I stopped the adderall IR for a few weeks, and now my tolerance seems to have lowered, but I'm having the wierd fx I mentioned. since my doc told me to start up this time ar 20mg, I'd only feel the effect of each dose, if at all, if I did 10mgx2. But it's difficult, because you have to somehow strategically spread the doses so they cover the whole day/early evening, but you don't want each dose so small that it has no effect.
The crash from adderall seems to be pretty harsh. Also if you ate before or after you take it, it will lower the kick in effect.
>>how long before or after? I did notice my downward mood shift during dinner.
I have found that as soon as I have a reg size meal, my medication pretty much goes away. Sometime to my iritation it will come back when the food is gone and I am left stairing at the ceiling instead of sleeping :)
> that's annoying!
> For my long acting medication I have just started generic dexedrine sr...2 15 mg capsules. It takes a long time to come on, but it last longer than XR.
> interesting; I'll ask my doc about that
> Are you drinking any high acid stuff or caffiene with your medication, this will also lower your absorption.
>>Yes. When I tapered off of adderall, I was a mess for a few weeks - always exhausted, etc. so I started drinking coffee again, and I still am. Perhaps if I resume the adderall, I should stop it?
> Hope this helps some :)
>>It did-thanks. I still gotta figure out, though if I'm going to resume a stimulant at all or wait for my pdoc to return from vacation and see what grander scheme he has planned for me this time around (-;
>>BTW, do you know how long a stim stays in your system? Because I took my 20mg dose yesterday and afterwards, because of my moodiness last night, I decided to not take it today and see how I'd do on just the klonopin. I was exhausted, of course, but I also felt an annoying, underlying restlesness. Could this have been some residual 'salts' still in my system from the yesterday's adderall or something?
Peter
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