What is your daily dosage of Adderall

[badders]

i am just wondering what is your optimal daily Adderall dosage?

[Andrew]

I don't take Adderall, and I'm sure you already know this...but, since every person is different, they will all have different optimal dosage levels.

[Penultimate]

Obviously not enough!

[meadd823]

I take an average of 80mg daily. My adderall is perscribed on hours awake ( that would be physicialy awake) I take 20mg every 4.5 to 5 hours. My ceiling is 100mg daily. I rarely reach my ceiling though. There are times I take less like days off when I am doing creative stuff like making jewlery, wood burning, writting ect.. I take only 10mg. The adderall helps prevent mind wandering.. necessary in creativity. Mind present and accounted for necessary at work then I take the full 20mg. The 10mg is enough adderalll to keep me on track( I only drag one project out at a time and remember what I'm working on after the bathroom break) but not enough to prevent the wandering mind thing. I average 80mg daily.

Tammy

[Brianne]

20mg a day for me. Works well enough for me.

[electro]

for me it's 30Mg Adderal XR (time release) - 15Mg ( not time release ). I take the
15 around 4:00 in the afternoon when the "down" starts - If I take the 15 Mg after
6:00 or so I have problems sleeping. Generally I can sleep otherwise. I am continually concerned about blood pressure and am working with a doctor about this.

I may take it on the weekends to reduce the every present anxiety and just
try to relax......

[freekofnature]

Doctor precribed is 25 mg a day but I rarely actually take over 15, more like 10 a day. Probably why I have 3 months of it stockpiled- Hey, you never know.

[meadd823]

Man I must be really wacked or hyper or just "hard headed". I didn't think I took that much more Adderall than other folks until I read this forum. I'm not large by most standards: 5ft-6in weigh 120 lbs and I'm female. I have been on this dosage(80mg-100mg daily) for a long time with out any problems so I guess I won't worry. I just didn't realise everyone else was on such a low dose, no wounder it took years to get my meds right. 20-30 mg of Adderall daily I would focus for about four hours a day. I take 20mg a dose!!

[OkiePeach]

Hi there all,
I take 90+mg per day and have for the last year and find it very effective. I am certain that everyone is different and require different doesages. I was on 60mg per day and it just didn't seem to be helping so my Dr. increased the dose and voila it did the trick. I don't have any problems sleeping at night as I thought I might as long as I take my last does around or before 5pm.

[meadd823]

I take my last dose about 4-5 hrs before retiring. I have problems sleeping but it seems to have nothing to do with my medication more to do with the monthly moon movements as I can take a dosage and fall asleep 30 minutes later, like I did this afternoon. I have more problems falling to sleep when I allow the Adderall to wear off. I have rebound from H@#ll.

When I have my monthly bouts of insomnia nothing causes drowsiness, I can take 1mg of Xanax and still be up playing on the computer, watching meanless stuff on TV, getting back to that jewlery making project I meant to last year..on occasion melatonin helps if I catch it before the Adderall wears off, but even the melatonin's effectiveness is marginal. Usualy I just stay awake that night and the next day, eventually I will sleep as no one has ever died from insomnia that I know of. Any way glad I am not the only one who takes a whopping dose of medication.

My doctor says my dosage has more to do with the severity of chemical imbalance than with weight. He says he has 220lb men on 20mg daily with good results, while others, like me, are smaller ,120lbs, and take larger dosages to achieve equal response.

Thanks for responding it is bad when you fell like an odd ball on a forum for ADD.

Tammy

[wasted]

I'm on 60mg/day (I take 20mg, 3x daily). My sleeping pattern is the same; I have always been very much a "night person" and usually do not fall asleep until 3-4am. I can take Adderall and fall asleep soon after, so it doesn't appear to affect my sleep. I have Ambien to take to fall asleep at a "decent" hour (haha, what my doctor says) but I usually don't take it, because I like being up at night when it's quiet and calm.

[dixiepeep]

I just started taking 40 mg Addderal XR but am having problems focusing

[meadd823]

You make me feel "normal" there wasted. I rarely take my prescribed Xanax either. I am kind of a night person myself. When I do have trouble sleeping as I discribed above and can't sleep I often just stay up and go to work the next morning . In the afternoon I get clumsly at times but can usually manage. I figure it like this: insomnia is a self-limiting syndrom as no one has ever ever died of lack of sleeping. When I get tired enough I'll sleep. I use any insomnia I have to get to do things I don't usually get to do like relax with out some one needing some thing, some one wanting to tell me some thing and during times when no one tries to sell me some thing ( internet is an exception)

Dixiepeep it has been my experience that doctors start out with the lowest dose they think will help and gradually move up the dosage depending on patient responses. I kept a log on small spiral notebook that fit in pocket so I could give times with one word records of when meds worked (I remember I had a note pad and needed to write on it, plus knew time and date) and times medications wore off ( times when I forgot to write in note pad and I wasn't sleeping)

[wasted]

Originally Posted by meadd823

You make me feel "normal" there wasted. I rarely take my prescribed Xanax either. I am kind of a night person myself. When I do have trouble sleeping as I discribed above and can't sleep I often just stay up and go to work the next morning . In the afternoon I get clumsly at times but can usually manage. I figure it like this: insomnia is a self-limiting syndrom as no one has ever ever died of lack of sleeping. When I get tired enough I'll sleep. I use any insomnia I have to get to do things I don't usually get to do like relax with out some one needing some thing, some one wanting to tell me some thing and during times when no one tries to sell me some thing ( internet is an exception)

i think we are the "normal" ones, and everyone who likes to go to bed early and wake up early are "abnormal"

it's exactly how you described it for me, i am not bothered at night!! if i'm trying to work i need silence and that never happens during the day. i can literally go batty when trying to work and not being able to get silence; i end up way more stressed out and irritable than before even starting so it's almost pointless. i have tried ear plugs with headphones worn OVER and it's still not good enough. "white noise" doesn't seem to work for me either, it's too distracting how is a person supposed to get total silence?!

[dixiepeep]

Good idea about the keeping a log. I will do that. Adderall seems to make me less irritable than Ritalin and I like that part of it. I guess I need to get the doc to work on the doseage.