These stimulants make it difficult for me to get to sleep. I'm sure a lot of you can relate! Today I am so, so tired. I am hoping it is not a side effect of the Focalin but rather my reacting to my lack of sleep. For those of you that take stimulants, do you find that you are generally awake during the day or can you be dead tired?

I felt nearly dead tired prior to meds. Now, on stimulants, I feel fine. I don't feel hyper, nor lethargic. I get to sleep fine too.

Are you taking IR or XR? Maybe take the last one sooner, or the XR earlier??

I'm always tired. :P But I've been that was as long as I can remember. I feel like I'm more alert on dex but I'm still tired a lot of the time. I'm getting better sleep now though so I'm hoping things will continue to improve. :)

It's likely that you're tired because of the sleep problems. Can you take a few days off (at least a weekend) to recouperate before getting settled in on the Focalin? You probably need to recover from the Adderall and get back on track sleep-wise so you can tell how you really react to the Focalin rather than being so run down from lack of sleep.

Stimulants can (a) mess up sleep quality and (b) contribute to multiple sleep fragmentations during the night.

For example, they can cause or increase PLMs. Lots of ADDer already have PLMs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodic_limb_movement_disorder

Result? Not enough restorative sleep (muscles and other bodily systems don't restore properly) and excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS).

Caffeine and Nicotine are also bad for messing up sleep architecture.

Thanks, everyone. My husband's work holiday party was last night but we opted to stay in instead because he wasn't feeling well and I was sooo tired!!! I went to bed around 8 :eek: :faint: and woke up this morning well rested! Finally! :o

I think it's true that I do need to take this stuff earlier in the morning so that it's wearing off by the time I'm going to bed. Took it at 8 AM today, so hopefully I'll be able to get some real sleep tonight, too.