Today was my 3rd day on Adderall XR 40 mg. I tried smaller doses of Ritalin before and 30mg of Dexadrine but the later made my mouth too dry to eat comfortably and made me even more chatty than usual!

So I've found that when taking 40mg of Adderall, I yawn excessively - not due to lack of sleep for sure because I am sleeping more than I usually do. Today the yawning has decreased a little since yesterday, but it is a little irritating. It's more like a need to yawn to get a really deep breath in, but I often can't "finish" the yawn. When I'm not yawning and try to get a deep breath in, I again feel like I can't "finish" the deep breath (you know, it stops just short of relief). Before taking any meds, my Dr. had me get some labs done so I know my kidneys, heart, blood pressure, etc. are all in good shape.

Does anyone have an idea of what could be causing this? Will it go away?


C.

In my own past experience, I've found that excessive yawning, while 'on' Adderall, is due to an incompatible 'high' dosage.

I had the same reaction. It was mainly only when I tried to get coverage later in to the day by taking additional later doses. (With my doctors permission)

So, as Nova mentioned, its just a little too high a dose for you. Ask your doctor if you can go to a lower dose for a few weeks first.

really?!?! thats suprising, i yawned on 5 10 and 20 mg's adderall... i personally came to the conclusion that its the initial onset of the amphetamine and the crash or comedown when they wear off but occasionally i yawn while its halfway through the dose fully effective, but i also think its due to the fact thats your taking stims specifically amphetmaines! amphetamines cuase your body to convert fat into energy, so i figured that the process might wear your body out or make you tired and then agian i also thought that its due to the fact that your body is simply on stimulants that somehow the way amphetaines effect your body makes it makes you think your tired i call it the "wired tired" feeling where your wired (not neccesarily wired or speeding ( i call speeding what you feel when your pumped up got testosterone pumping energized not necessarily a bad thing (and also not always drug related i dont think thats a slag term or being under the influence of speed but i sorta came up with it but sometimes people think badly when i say it) but i dont think it has anything to do with the dose, i personallly think that if that happened you should UP the dose, to get it to go away... but my opinion no doc (neither is anyone who replied before me so ask your doc!? and let us know)

I yawned all the time the first week I was on Adderall. It made me really sleepy, even when I was sleeping a lot. Then it wore off.

It still makes me tired sometimes....and I get alot of the wired tired a pp mentioned...my mind is awake but my body is just tired..

I just got a new matress so hopefully that will help with sleep......

A few of my friends who take it too mention feeling tired the first few weeks here and there and then again if they take a drug holiday.

Thanks everyone for the replies! My doctor suggested it may be a tic - said he hadn't heard of this as a side effect in his patients. Anyhow, if this helps anyone else from now on, he suggested I try to stick through 40 and if it's uncomfortable then go to 30.

Well, I stuck through the 40, and after a couple of days, the yawning and weird breathing stopped! :) It's now been a little over a week and things are great. LOL, turns out we upped the dosage to get 'more coverage' in the afternoon.

Thanks again for all the help, people!

C.

Hmm... that's interesting. Just came across this post and thought "hey. . . I could have written this."

I had the incredible urge to yawn for the first 2 weeks I was on Adderall (XR 20 mgs), then it just went away. I thought I was just wierd. . . it's sort of comforting to know I'm not the only one