View Full Version : My experience on Adderall XR so far


somegirlinhere
07-27-05, 04:59 PM
The first day I took it cause me such a sense of speediness that I didn't sleep for the first 36 hours.

I felt great for the first two days.. Happy, outgoing, settled etc.
After that It felt like it wore off..

I took it all that week.. By the weeks end I was sure it wasn't the right medicine for me.
I had headaces, tension, muscle aches, muscle tics, nastyness. NO PATIENCES, stress etc..

I didn't take it over that first weekend..
I saw the doc and he said it can take 2-6 mths to regulate itself into your body and I should stick with it for a while longer..

I took it that following monday (after not taking it sat and sun)
I felt okay..
Sort of like that first day but not as much speediness and I slept fine..

It was not affecting my body in the bad way it had the previous week..
No more bad headaces, not as much tension, muscle aches, The tics were gone etc.. I also had more patience and wasn't quite as nasty.

I have found skipping sat and sun to be a good thing..
The rest of the weeks get a bit better as each week passes.

I had been on strattera before and you felt that full effect right away.. With adderall its not like that and I guess that was what was hard for me to get..

WIth the adderall you feel some of the speediness, but lots of other bad side effects that pass after a week or two.

The secret is to ride it out a few weeks before forming a decision about it.

I really feel that it is helping me a bit more now then when I first started it.

I still think strattera is better for slowing your mind down and allowing you to concentrate better but it puts you to sleep!