Posted by Lesser Poobah on July 15, 2009, at 19:58:34
In reply to Re: new generic adderall xr, posted by lawstud on June 18, 2009, at 23:59:45
Just fyi re: my experiences...
I was prescribed 20mg of Adderall XR daily by a neurologist for idiopathic hypersomnia (i.e., extreme daytime sleepiness) which is a sleep disorder probably related to my other sleep disorder, sleep apnea. I have been taking the Adderall for many months, after switching over from Provigil 200mg (which was no longer working effectively).
The adderall xr worked reasonably well, 10 mg first thing in the morning and another 10 around noon/12:30pm. It didn't keep me awake at night, didn't really seem to make me more focused, just helped keep me awake.
I refilled my XR prescription at the end of June, and fairly quickly noticed that I wasn't getting the same effect from my doses. (Not enough wakefulness, and not lasting nearly as long.) I started to take the second dose an hour earlier in the day, which seemed to help for a while.
I had not realized that the new prescription was the generic ex version until I took a close look at the pill itself. I thought perhaps my prescription had been incorrectly filled with a lower dosage (if 5mg is available) and went to check the pill for the dosage. Psychological impact of the generic was nil, therefore -- the pill was the same color, so to me, it was the same as I had been taking.
This week has been particularly bad re: sleepiness. This morning I took 10 mg at 9am (earliest I could rouse myself except to hit the snooze buttons on the 2 alarms I set for ~7:30), another 10mg at 10pm, hoping that would set me up for the day, but I had another drop off the edge at around 2pm and ended up taking a third dose. I've *never* had to do that before and even THAT didn't cause any agitation, nervousness, hyper-anything, nor did it bring about any super-alertness.
I'm sure, as sure as I can be with a sample of 1, that I am not responding to this generic version nearly as well as I do to the brand name version.
As always, your mileage may vary... :-)
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