Hi there! For those of you on Adderall who sometimes have trouble getting up in the morning, especially on early mornings: I just wanted to share something that works for me!

Set out your morning dose of Adderall with water on your nightstand before you go to bed. Set two alarms, or just have one alarm with a 10-15 minute snooze button. As soon as the first alarm goes off, reach over to the nightstand and take your morning dose of Adderall. Then you can doze off and go back to sleep if you wish (which I almost always do)... after 10-15 minutes, the second alarm goes off and it is time to get up! By this time, the Adderall has (hopefully) begun to kick in your system and it should be easier to wake up now and get yourself moving for the day!

It works pretty well for me. Hope it helps someone else! :)

(As always- follow your doctor's instructions on how/when to take your medication)

Hey, you stole my favorite trick! :-)

Glad it works for you too.

I tried this but I can sleep right through stimulants :eek:

I guess this probably works for most people tho ;)

That works however on my off days which are the weekends I don't take my meds and therefore I sleep in sometimes until 12PM and that sucks because my entire morning is wasted. It's just I'm pooped from the entire week so I just sleep and sleep.

I wanted to let you know my secret on taking adderall xr in the morning to help in waking up with enery. It's simple really. Keep the medicine bottle and a glass of water next to your bed. But the trick is to leave the cap off. That way there's no need to try and take off a complicatd child proof cap off while being half asleep. This way all you need to do is reach for the pill and take it with water. It's done wonders for me since I used to just take XR whenever I got up and that really wastes my mornings. Hope it helps.

Great idea! Sometimes it's really hard for me to get up in the morning, but I do try to take my meds first thing. That's a problem on the weekends, though, because if it gets too late I don't take them, otherwise I can't fall asleep at night.
The only part I don't like about the whole meds issue is that I think my body is going to get used to 'needing' meds to wake up.