View Full Version : Adderall & Cardio


sunshine85
11-30-08, 12:48 PM
Ok, so I just started taking adderall for my adhd. I workout a lot before I was put on adderall. Since I have been on adderall my cardio has been hard. I noticed my blood pressure has gone up at rest and it gets a lot higher then it use to when I do cardio, which makes it a little hard to breathe regularly. I usually walk on the tredmill up to a 10 incline and a 3.8 speed and run a little in between. I do this for 45min-1hr depending on the cardio routine i am doing that day. Today I did it for 1hr and when I was at 40 min, i felt like throwing up, but i held it in until I finished. Right after i went to the bathroom and threw up, but it wasn't my food, it was liquid(so must have been water) and a very sour/acidic discusting taste. Did I throw up my medication?
I took my 30mg of adderall XR at around noon when I woke up and ate a grilled chicken sandwich at around 1pm. I went to the gym at 5pm, so my food was fully digested by then. It is now almost 8pm and I still feel like i have something in my throat that I need to throw up, but when I try nothing comes out.
Has anyone ever experience this? How about the High Heart rate when doing moderate exercise? I am very concious about my body and am trying to lose weight so I can't stop working out.

kiosk
11-30-08, 03:29 PM
i ALWAYS take mine AFTER I eat something, never on empty stomach.....but even then I weight train and makes hard to breath as you say, I only take a small dose now (10mg IR) if I am before a workout and let it settle down for 1hr before i start training

nicolai
11-30-08, 08:12 PM
Ok, so I just started taking adderall for my adhd. I workout a lot before I was put on adderall. Since I have been on adderall my cardio has been hard. I noticed my blood pressure has gone up at rest and it gets a lot higher then it use to when I do cardio, which makes it a little hard to breathe regularly. I usually walk on the tredmill up to a 10 incline and a 3.8 speed and run a little in between. I do this for 45min-1hr depending on the cardio routine i am doing that day. Today I did it for 1hr and when I was at 40 min, i felt like throwing up, but i held it in until I finished. Right after i went to the bathroom and threw up, but it wasn't my food, it was liquid(so must have been water) and a very sour/acidic discusting taste. Did I throw up my medication?
I took my 30mg of adderall XR at around noon when I woke up and ate a grilled chicken sandwich at around 1pm. I went to the gym at 5pm, so my food was fully digested by then. It is now almost 8pm and I still feel like i have something in my throat that I need to throw up, but when I try nothing comes out.
Has anyone ever experience this? How about the High Heart rate when doing moderate exercise? I am very concious about my body and am trying to lose weight so I can't stop working out.

The sour and acidic taste in your vomit isn't the medicine, it's probably a combination of: half absorbed food, bile, and stomach acid. By 1 hour after taking it, the Adderall is absorbed into your body, distributed to it's receptors, and active in the blood plasma or bound to protein/fat. It's not really possible to throw it up after it's already "working", because, while some of the capsule or tablet may still be in your stomach, most of the active drug is already in your plasma or has stored itself.

Adderall is a central nervous system stimulant, like coffee (just stronger), so naturally it raises heart rate and blood pressure. However, if you feel that your heart rate is raised significantly to a dangerous level (tachycardia), your dose is probably too high. It's supposed to be somewhat subtle.

Nausea and vomiting (N/V) isn't a common side effect of Adderall directly, but perhaps being dehydrated. You will have to drink more water than you're used to drinking while on Adderall, especially if you throw up water (which will dehydrate you more).

The thing about Adderall and amphetamines is that, during exercise, the pain a person feels signaling them to stop exercising can be bypassed. What I mean is, Adderall will physically let you go beyond your limit - this is why athletes often abuse amphetamines. Could it be that you exercised too long or too hard this particular day?

dgessler
11-30-08, 11:03 PM
Are you doing cardio while actually on Adderall? Definitely time your cardio so you do it before or after your dose wears off.