Well as usual, the first 3 days on 20mg 2xd were great, but in the last few days, ive been feeling sleepy duiring the day, irritable, and just generaly "blah." Am I right in guessing this is an overdoseing problem? I tried 30mg yesterday, and still felt just as bad. So am i right in thinking of switching to 10mg?

Hoe much caffeine do you ingest every day? You have to count coffee, tea, iced tea, soft drinks (especially colas), and OTC meds that might have it.

The answer might surprise you. We found that we had to modify our coffee drinking habits drastically, for exactly the reasons you noted.

I usualy drink almost no caffine. For the past few weeks I had been having maybe 2 cups a week.

Well, it's not that, then. What you describe isn't uncommon; it's sometimes referred to as 'the paradoxical effect', because it seems to counter the popular perception of stimulants (particularly amphetamines) as drugs that keep you awake and make you jittery.

We experience the same calming effect, and if I'm tired. I go right to sleep. In fact, we didn't like Adderall XR for exactly that reason: every time I took it, I was fast asleep within two hours.

I'm fine on regular Adderall, though, and Ritalin as well. We ADDers are famous for our sensitivity to drugs; there have been times that I've been on 5mg of Ritalin 3 x daily, and our son Bryan has taken a 10mg Ritalin split four ways over the course of a day routinely.

You should discuss whatever you do with your physician, of course.

hrrm, well i took 10mg for my afternoon dose, and while im not feeling bad anymore, i have serious problems concentrating. So im at a loss... i woudnt think this mornings dose would be affecting me sence it is gone by 12-1, so maybe its an underdosing?

bah, starting to get sleepy once again, about 2.5 hours after the 10mg dosage. This is getting frustrating, and of course, im having a hard time thinking about it. :/

I'm deffinitely no expert, but maybe you need to try a different drug. I had to switch from Ritalin to Adderall because it would become ineffective after about 1 month of taking it. My dad has gone from Ritalin to Adderall and is now on Stratera(not sure if thats right spelling). I'm 16 and I'm already taking 1 30mg Adderall XR daily. I'm having almost the exact problem as you. Without my medication I'm a really outgoing person(not hyperactive though), but when I take my medicine I'm really quiet, have hard times carrying on let alone starting conversations, and just want to sit and think and not do anything else. However, unlike what you said, Adderall keeps me awake. I can tell because if I ever forget my medication, I usually start to fall asleep in class, especially if the teacher turns off the lights for something. I also have trouble going to bed at night when on medication. These things(sleep deprivation and social deprivation) seem to build up on me. When I forget my medication, I'll either be really talkative or really sleepy. Sometimes if I haven't forgotten my meds for a long time and all of a sudden do, I go crazy and really get on peoples nerves. Has anyone heard of or experienced anything like this?

Well I would think if it worked well for 3 days that it would have to be a dosing issue. But i just changed from concerta, and if i could get adderall to work, I enjoy the calming of the adderall, over the extra stimulation of the concerta.

yeah today I had an experience on 25mgXR where I wanted to just sit down and watch TV, I know that its too low of dose though, im really thinking about getting the regular adderall because this XR crap is only really good for students who don't want to worry about taking meds at school. The only reason I even take adderall is to be able to read and to learn, its frustrating when it isn't working because of ethier the dose or god knows what. Suckd today because I was really depressed and frustrated. I know that it was the adderall not working because everything I was feeling was ADD and once I started reading an ADD book I have, I calmed down a lot and realized what was really happening. You really have to be very educated on ADD to change your life, medication doesn't do anything without structure and better habits