I take my adhd medication during Uni time. I'm not a fan of having to medicate but I have tried nearly everything else and the only way I can focus is with Medication.

The good thing about uni is there is holidays when I can go off the medication. Then my tolerance levels seem to go down and by the time uni starts again I can go back on a lower dosage.

Do I take medication for the rest of my life. With my career, I'm going to need to be on the ball and to be able to focus... where does it end? Working life will not be like uni... there wont be any regular major holidays to go off the medication.

Do I stay on the medication for ever?

Where does it end?


I dont usually let things that i cant help annoy me. However, currently I am feeling hard done by. Why cant i just go through life with an attention span like everyone else and then go onto enjoy my career.

Having said all that. I do realise there are people alot worse of than me.


I am grateful for what I have. I just need some sort of outlook to where I am going.

Hi!
I'm a bit confused as to why you want to come off the medication(s). Now,I AM fairly new to my ADD (self) diagnosis (official is pending) - so I haven't started meds yet,but from my reading, ADD/ADHD is a process of neurobiology - we were born this way.So then,to my way of thinking - at least at this point in time - taking medication to stabilize brain chemistry is no different than a diabetic requiring insulin to manage his condition.

Perhaps there are some factors that I don't yet understand about the medications which partially treat ADD/ADHD ( real likely,actually :rolleyes:) but,if they have a positive effect on you and help keep your life 'on an even keel',why would you take a medication holiday? :)

the med's lose effectiveness after a while.


also... when you try dexamphetamine, you'll know what I mean.

they are not a fool proof cure... they help but there is alot of side effects.

I'm not sure mate. I was off them for 4 years and it lead to me failling out of uni. That's when I realised I needed to go back on them. I'm going back to uni next year (and I'll be turning 21, so it's not a big disruption), so I'll see how things go.

I'm on dexamphetamine too. I wish Australia had Adderall. Dex isn't very smooth, and if the dose is too low I feel apathetic, irritable and anti-social. Not to mention appetite and sleep issues.

Please do realize medication effect us all differently -where as some say


they help but there is alot of side effects.

others like myself do not experience any side effects at all. Some people say the medication looses it's effectiveness however I have been on the same dosage for about a decade now - the reason my medications actually loose effectiveness is due to wonderful female hormone fluctuations which would screw with my memory weather I had ADD or not - so the medication isn't loosing it's effectives I am just getting older and experiencing the same struggles millions of non-ADD women my age go through.

I also want to mention I no longer "feel" my medications I haven't in years but they still allow me to foreground and back ground stimuli - I am able to hold onto a thought by simply willing myself to do so and I can still name that emotions before I react to it - so yep medications are working = feeling them is not necessary and personally I prefer not to feel medicated -

When do you stop the choice is individual - sense I do not experience side effects it hasn't bothered me to stay on medications - and I don't have such a thing as withdraw either - I am unmedicated right now and I am able to post with out problems - but only because there is no stimuli to back ground - it is early morning and quiet - but in a few I my bouncy butt husband is going to get out of bed turn on the TV begin talking the cats are going to want to eat phones will begin ringing and if I am not medicated it will all assault me at one time scattering any reminisces of thought I may attempt to process. . .

If the idea of being medicated is distressing perhaps instituting external way to block out un-necessary stimuli and periodically see if you can use your coping methods successfully without the medications - that is the best way I know to get off medications. I do not take them at times I do not need them like right now but I do take my medications on most works days least I remember to stay at work and not wander off else where - hope this kind of helps . ... :o

yep.. bak at uni also.


tried strattera for a while. didnt do much

tried using nothing... saw myself getting no where... lecture's would be over and i'd be like "lol wut?"

would love to be able not to have to take dexies but it just doesnt work :(

the appetite suppression is terrible... i like working out so i need to eat. i can go all day without eating and it really messes with me physically and mentally. if only there was a drug to make us hungry :(

I'm not sure mate. I was off them for 4 years and it lead to me failling out of uni. That's when I realised I needed to go back on them. I'm going back to uni next year (and I'll be turning 21, so it's not a big disruption), so I'll see how things go.

I'm on dexamphetamine too. I wish Australia had Adderall. Dex isn't very smooth, and if the dose is too low I feel apathetic, irritable and anti-social. Not to mention appetite and sleep issues.