Ok, so I just took Adderall for the first time today...I was just told to take it twice a day, nothing else about what time would be better to take it or anything. I take fifteen mg twice a day, a thirty mg pill split in half. So I took the first half at like three pm today....and kinda just zoned out with my eyes closed but not sleeping...but by five thirty or six, I was pinging. I mean bouncing off the walls. I felt like I had have twenty cups of coffee. I haven't had any caffinated drinks in a while, if that matters. I took the second dose a little after eleven pm...no zoning out feeling...just SO HYPER and my heart is racing and I can't sit still...or sleep....or calm down...and it is now three a.m. I even took a mild muscle relaxer at around midnight because it usually helps me calm down and sleep no matter the circumstances. But it did nothing...I am going crazy right now..and I have to work tomorrow so if I don't sleep tonight I am going to have issues! Any help asap would be very appreciated!!!! (oh and I am on celexa too 40mg a day for panic attacks...if that makes a difference)

Hello! Just wondering, what is your heart rate right now?

And your reaction isn't that suprizing! I get a high heart rate and it made me really nervous and panicky at first. I didn't feel hyper though, I felt relaxed yet alert. Nothing to say really, just don't panic or anything. You'll be ok, going a night without sleep every now and then isn't horrible.

Question: Do you have a prescription? Just asking, since you got a thirty mg pill to split in half, it seems sorta weird. I don't think you'll get banned or anything if you don't since you're just asking for help, but just advice to stop taking it.

just take the dose tomorrow for work you should be fine, I just switched to Ritalin and that effects my sleep but if I don't sleep well one night I catch up the next.

Oh, you're on yahoo! answers! I go on yahoo when I freak out too because of the immediate responces.

I have no idea what my heart rate is right now....although I have calmed down slightly in the last half hour or so, but I feel like my insides are jumping all around like my heart is racing although I'm not sure if it is...and yeah I have a prescription, I just barely got it. Trust me I wouldn't take it without one what person would voluntarily get this feeling...
And yes I am also on yahoo answers I get on there a lot...I was just trying to get as many answers as possible! :)

I <3 yahoo! Actually not always since they banned me, argh!

You can take your heart rate here.
http://www.vickiblackwell.com/timer.html

I keep asking because I'm trying to find someone with a heart as high as me. It freaks me out man.

I am also having really cold feet and hands and nose....and a slight dry mouth...but I read that those are common side effects...

I am also having really cold feet and hands and nose....and a slight dry mouth...but I read that those are common side effects...Someone made a thread about this. Something about constricted blood vessels. I wouldn't know the difference since I've always been like that.

And it would have been more convenient for you to get the pills in 15 mg I say.

why did they kick you off yahoo? and the cold and the dry mouth are barely bothering me compared to everything else....and I only tested my pulse for thirty seconds and it beat fifty times....

I dunno, something about my IP adress and being reported for no reason. Its a stupid system they have, I hate it. How many yahooer out here agree?

So that's 100 bpm, which is fast but not as fast as I sometimes am. Hmm. How old are you?

I am twenty one...and in reply to mspen1018.... (http://www.addforums.com/forums/member.php?u=9609) I don't know if I can work like this because I cannot sit still and I am shaking pretty bad...

You said you're on medication for panic attacts, the shaking is probably that. You're worried about your health so you're freaking out. It shouldn't make you shake I don't think. If you just calm down you should start to feel better. Make yourself some tea.

I've been on the panic attack medication FOREVER and never had a problem. I think the shaking is a result of my nerves feeling all on end but the rest of me wanting to go to sleep SO BAD...clashing?

and I'm not really worried about my health at this moment...I know I'm not gonna die or anything. It is just that I know how I will be tomorrow if I don't sleep

Oh ok. Well try and calm yourself down with some nice sloooow breating or maybe a nice late night snack. That'd be my suggestion.

lol I have actually tried both...and laying down....and closing my eyes...every calming excersize i know

Well then try to have fun? If you're feeling really hyper at this moment, listen to some music and dance in the night like in that Tom Hanks movie. I love being hyper, I wish I was right now.

well I am watching tv quietly...my husband usually waits for me and we go to bed together...but he was so irritated about me not shutting up and apparently I was irritating the hell out of him so he went to bed....the hyperness is kind of wearing off...but my heart still feels like its going a thousand miles a minute....I could try to sleep cause part of me is tired, but I know I wouldn't be able to calm my mind or nerves down

Yeah, I think you should try to sleep. Just breath really slow and think about something super boring. And eat some turkey or something, that'll knock you out.

if something that usually knocks me out doesn't...I doubt turkey will help. and believe me I have tried every breathing calming excersize trying to sleep thing known to man. I know I'm kinda shootin down everything....sorry

Well you know what you should do? Stay up and chat with us. Come to chit chat and chit chat! We're discussing the meaning of life.

I should be doing homework but I have little enough that I can do it within half an hour of class tomorrow, woooo.

I don't think that's a great idea for me right now I can't focus on anything lol which is the opposite of what the medicine is supposed to do...but I am going to try laying down some more...I will be back on tomorrow sometime for updates...if I can get this on my phone...

Seriously? Most people, even people without ADD, take it and their focus goes on hyperdrive. You have to pick something, start focusing, and grab onto it. Acutally being on forums is abit distressing for me right after (like now just a teensy bit) because of the constant switching and that I want people to talk more and stick to one thing. You get really into stuff. I don't know why it wouldn't work for you.

*shrug*

I think maybe the problem is that you aren't using it properly as there was a thread about. You have to pick something you want to focus on and zone in on it. After that its sort of magical sometimes. It was at the start at least. They say that it can't make you interested in anything or make stuff less boring, but for me it seriously does. Like homework/science.

ok Updates....it is now eight am...and I have not slept at all. Not one bit. The energetic feeling is mostly gone...but my heart is still racing and pounding really hard, and my mind won't shut off. Question is, should I take it today?

Morning! Its after seven am here, but its ok since I woke up at 3:30 PM yesterday. I'd say NO, don't take it until you get some sleep, the physical effects wear off completley, and you actually need it for a focusing activity that will be detrimental if you avoid it.

If I'd started off with 15mg 2x a day I would have been in bad shape too.
Maybe you could split the halves in half for the first week or so? I think it's better to start out a little lower and work your way up.

ok I'm also worried that if I don't take it today, the process of my body getting used to it and the freaking crazy hyperness feeling will start all over again when I start taking it again. Isn't it better to get it over with?

I just started adderal as well and my side effects are the same. Today is Day 4, hopefully I will get some sleep soon because I am exhausted!

ok I'm also worried that if I don't take it today, the process of my body getting used to it and the freaking crazy hyperness feeling will start all over again when I start taking it again. Isn't it better to get it over with?No, building tolerance is BAD. Just take less. I started on 40 mg IR and it was bad news. :eyebrow:

I am back! So, thursday was my first time taking it when I had the weird reaction....I took friday off the meds, because I was still kinda weird feeling. However, today is Saturday, and I took a half of a half (a quarter?) piece of the medicine at around one. I felt the effects in about an hour, I was concentrating so well!! No heart racing, nothing. But it is now eight, and the shaking and heart racing are setting in again, only not near as bad. I am very confused!