ADDERALL Reviews (AMPHETAMINE ASPARTATE; AMPHETAMINE SULFATE; DEXTROAMPHETAMINE SACCHARATE; DEXTROAMPHETAMINE SULFATE)Average Rating: 3.6 (845 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare ADDERALL with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR ADDERALL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | To focus | Excessive sweating, staying up all night if taken too late in day, weight loss due to decreased appetite, muscle stiffness and pain, dry mouth, moody when the drug wears off. | I took Adderall for 2 and a half years. It was one of my favorite meds. I was in college and it gave me amazing focus and straight As. Unfortunately, I have Glaucoma and this med worsens it due to raising pressure in the eyes. It can also cause other eye problems, just an FYI. This med made me care about schoolwork, I had extreme focus. I'm just at a point in life now where I don't want to rely on meds. I believe diet changes and exercise are the way to go. | F | 24 | 2.5 years 15 1X day | 12/28/2014 | 1 | focus, weight loss | Shallow breathing (can't quite catch my breath, which leads to yawning, which -due to the anxiety, I can't get the yawn all the way out! Makes me more and more anxious, and my breathing more irregular!) Excessive swallowing (also feels like there's build up in my throat that is interfering with my breathing which ALSO causes anxiety) has anyone else heard of this?? Sometimes I have an overly outgoing personality (can't stop talking, over-explaining, dragging out my sentences. Just annoyingly talkative.), Either that, or I have a flat personality, irritability (from anxiety when ppl ask me too many questions, or talk too much, or won't let me focus on tasks, interrupt, etc.) productive even with things I hate to do (and would not do if it wasn't for the damn pill), OCD, Lack of time management - which causes me to zone out on details, wasting too much energy and time on something insignificant, insomnia, spacing out, distant in social settings, memory loss, lack of enjoyment in things I used to do when I am not on it, increased dosage due to easy & quick tolerance build up. Flu-like symptoms, cold sweats (funny odor), FEVER!!!, heart racing or skipping beats, loss of appetite, blurred vision, increased bowel movements, dry mouth, lack of thirst. Overall, it helped me focus the first couple of weeks, & I DEFINITELY enjoyed my slimmer figure due to the loss of desire to eat anything, however it QUICKLY backfired with dizziness, headaches, and weakness the second I crashed | And "Focus" turned into OCD and anxiety. These are obviously easy to abuse and NOT worth. It's clearly unhealthy and hard on my body. I'm just shocked at how fast a good thing turned so bad. | F | 25 | 1 years 60-90 MG | 11/30/2014 | 2 | Concentration, Focus, Depression | Dry mouth, extreme headache on day 2 but now no headaches, lump in my chest/stomach, increased appetite, energy crash after about 4 hours. | I'm in my late 30's. I have a very mentally challenging job, with many small details to manage over the course of a month. Been slowly letting projects uncompleted, just too much to focus on. Getting this drug prescribed was a long time in the making. I had to go to three different psychiatrists for them to finally make the connection in my behaviour. I've been taking it about a week now, haven't really noticed too much of a change with my ability to focus and stay on topic. I've had depression for about 3 years. Also take 400mg Bupropion daily. I will try this for another 3 weeks, and talk with the doc, about maybe upping the daily dose. I'm hoping that this drug and its dependency will mellow out over time. About 4 hours after taking it, I crash hard and feel somber, and tired. It's not like a caffeine crash, its different. | M | 7 days 10mg 1X day | 11/18/2014 | 5 | ADHD | should only be taken in the morning or else you won't sleep. Become more social I feel the need to talk to everyone in the world. Dehydration is common so drink lots of water. Should only be taken by prescribed patients | Adderall has indefinitely helped me concentrate. My grades have improved and I can actually sit through class and be involved, rather than screw around and have no idea what's happening | M | 24 | 6 years 25mg | 11/12/2014 | 3 | ADHD inattentive | Blunted emotions when I take it (don't laugh as much), Hard to eat but remember to else you'll crash hard and doesn't work as much, increases addictive behavior such as smoking and a bit OCD when I take it. | It's helps when you use it for studying,productivity, etc. but it's easy to loose sight of what you started taking it for in the first place. In highschool I didn't use it as prescribed and grades actually went down. Helps to take it while your studying not before and if you have problems with self control let someone you trust hold it for you. There's gonna be a day where you WILL take 1 or 2 more than your supposed to think nothing of it, eventually over time you'll find yourself running out of your prescription within a week and regretting it. | M | 20 | 4 years 30 1xday | 11/3/2014 | 3 | ADD | slight loss of appetite. Mild crash of energy after med wears off - but that does not bother me. | I take 5 (five!) mg, not 10. My doctor believes, as do I, that medications are NOT one size fits all, and that it is always better to take as little as you need. This drug was helpful for my organization, productivity and calming my mind, but I have not taken it long enough to know if I will stay with it or try something else. Some of the "comments" and misc. rambling about this drug are some of the most bizarre that I have seen on this site. Either Adderall truly has some potential to cause terrifying mental side effects, or it just so happens that the people posting comments here have other very serious mental illnesses that they are not aware of… OR people are taking WAY too high of a dose. Or maybe all three. I was prescribed 5 mg, and told to SPLIT THE TAB IN HALF AND TAKE 2.5 mg for a week and gradually increase. I would urge people to NOT take 10 mg at first, but to work your way up, and not to ever take doses as high as 30 or god forbid 60. DOSE MATTERS. Think about how you feel about half a beer or 10 beers. Too high a dose of anything can cause terrible side effects. A smaller dose could be the answer for some. | F | 49 | 2 weeks 1X day | 10/23/2014 | 5 | ADHD | hyperfocus, horniness | helps me study | M | 25 | 10 years 20 MG 2X day | 10/15/2014 | 1 | Because my dr said I had add and insisted | I ask disturbing questions online that I don't think when I'm not taking it and some are so bad it's just wrong . Also porn is all that I want to watch till I get scared the cops will come because I'm not a sicko just will stop now and go see a lawyer or check into a clinc like my local DePaul center | M | 25 | 3 years 30mg 3 day | 9/20/2014 | 1 | add | This is a story of my soon to be ex husband. I hope that after reading this someone, who might be in a similar situation, will get a better understanding of how horrible and life destroying is this drug. My husband one day just decided to go to a doctor and ask for rx to treat ADD, because he had problems concentrating on daily tasks or work. Let me mention, that he did so without my knowledge. Only months later I found out that he got on some meds, after his behavior became completely insane. when I say insane, here's what I mean : We have a house in the city, on a very busy street, next to a small unoccupied parking lot, obviously a lot of cars pull in there just to turn around. One morning when he was leaving for work, a car slowly turned around there and left. When he came home, he accused me of cheating, saying that when he was leaving someone was waiting for me outside and when they saw him, they got scared and drove away. I couldn't believe this nonsense!! I was trying to reason with him, but the whole situation escalated to a scandal with him cursing me out and breaking furniture: he broke two dinning room chairs, turned them into chips!! I didn't know what to do, cause I couldn't understand then why is this happening. Next he developed a massive porn addiction; he got on adult friend finder, Craigslist casual encounters and other garbage saying that I must be on those sites and he will find my profile. When he'd think he "found my profiles" | M | 39 | 3 years | 9/4/2014 | 1 | AHDD | Social anxiety, brutal loss of appetite, obsessive compulsive behavior, suicidal thoughts. | It's pure poison. I got off the medication because I ran out the day I was going on a 3 weeks long trip overseas. After the first week off the meds, every single symptom I had just disappeared and I feel like myself again. Not unhappy, not obsessive, not explosive, not hyper, no insomnia or anything even close. | M | 38 | 12 months 30 MG 1X day | 7/15/2014 | 1 | High school | Very OCD, depression, loss of sex drive, impulsiveness, any symptom you can think of I had while taking this medicine. I have serious heart problems, social anxiety, rice developed an eating disorder, lost every friend I've ever had from isolating. I don't feel like a human being anymore, nor do I remember how to live a normal life. I permanently feel bugs crawling on me and have destroyed my skin from the length if time on this drug. I am a pretty girl but adderall has ruined my appearance more then you can imagine. It's great at first, your on top of the world but it doesn't last and it is NOT worth what I've been though with health problems the past year linked directly to adderall. I use a breathing machine 4 times a day because I can hardly breathe. If you give this medicine to your child at a young age, do your research. ADHD can be treated other ways. I wouldn't wish what I've been through on anyone. The last week on this medicine I didn't sleep for 5 days, at work I started hallucinating and my face swelled up, I couldn't move and it landed me in the hospital. (Not the first time) this drug has completely ruined my life and without my fiancée help doing everyday life things, I don't think id be sitting here typing this right now. They need to ban this drug. | F | 21 | 5 years 30 | 7/11/2014 | 4 | ADHD combined type | At first I had many side effects including light-headedness, shortness of breath, and racing heart to name a few. After a few months I learned to pay more attention to my eating habits. Most side effects from Adderall are caused by not eating. Other than that I have no complaints other than the teeth grinding. | M | 20 | 8 months 90MG/daily | 7/4/2014 | 4 | to offset other bipolar meds | None worthy of mentioning | I've been diagnosed with ADD and Bipolar I. I currently am on 4 other meds. Adderall has helped my focus which is great because i can write again and i love to write. It has stopped my 4 hour 'naps' but i still sleep well unless i take it late in the day. My doctor dropped Lithium from my combo recently and I had to drop my dose from 60 mg to twenty. I was buzzing like a chainsaw. I like it. | M | 60 | 8 months 20 MG 3X day | 6/28/2014 | 5 | At first to study in school. | nothing bad! | Wow, I might not have ADHD but does that stuff work! I'm euphoric, but not inappropriately so. Horny as hell, and it kills my appetite and makes me smoke weed and cigs like a chimney. I love it. The best. | M | 23 | 5 years 30 mg 3X day | 6/20/2014 | 5 | ADD/ADHD | Helped me a ton with school and work. I haven't up'd my dosage in a handful of years, but I will say it can cause dependency. I'm trying to regulate to a lower dosage now and it's started to lose it's effectiveness. However if I skip a day or toe when I take it again it's very potent. | F | 27 | 10 years 20 mg RX | 6/11/2014 | 4 | Attention Defficit disorder | According to my husband I have a ton of side effects, but I do agree that I have a couple of them but I'm also pretty sure that a lot of it is exaggerated by them as well IDK. My husband wants to argue with me about a lot of stuff so it's makes a lil hard for me to talk with him regarding the adderall :( but he says that my personality has all together changed, and that Things get me angry that wouldn't before , that I'm less affectionate now way less , that I fight about little things and that I even blame him as the one wanting to argue ?, he tells me I am not close to being as positive like I was before the taking the pills ? And a lot more Lol | F | 33 | 5 months 60 mg day | 5/23/2014 | 5 | add,cfs | Started taking due to cfs following a long battle with pneumonia that antibiotics couldn't rid my body of, but after taking it for some time with much improvement in many levels asked for a referral to psychiatrist to be "officially" diagnosed with adult add. I, of course, began researching into add symptoms after taking it because of my overall life improvement. I am of the age before they actually gave the condition I've suffered all my life a name. If I was born later, my psychiatrist stated the system would have found it sooner! Sad to me now, but so glad I do have treatment now. It has been a rocky road though. There have been some quality control issues with the med over the years and it's not as good as it once was, but is still better than not having it at all. | You can have a GP manage your medication AFTER you receive your diagnosis from a psychiatrist. I specifically asked the psych for adderall to try, and they had no problem with that. Good luck to all, it is a very helpful mefication if taken properly(as prescribed). | F | 43 | 6 years 30mg 2X day | 5/22/2014 | 3 | , disorganized. | AT II OK,I AM THE MOTHER OF AN 8 YEAR OLD SON WHO IS CURRENTLY ON ADDERAL XR.IJUST WANT TO SAY,THAT HERE RECENTLY I REALIZED,THAT MY SON INHERITED ADD FROM ME,CUZ EVER SINCE I RESEARCHED THIS DISORDER AND MEDS,THAT OMG ,THATS SO ME!!!IVE TRIED TO TELL DOCTORS IVE SEEN THAT PLEASE HELP ME,THEY JUST LOOK AT ME LIKE IM JUST SOMEONE WHO DOESNT HAVE THIS DISORDER AND BRUSH ME OFF.WTF!!!I DROPPED OUT OF HIGHSCHOOL BECAUSE OF THIS FUCKING DISORDER,AND BACK THEN THEY DIDNT KNOW ABOUT ADD AD/HD,ACCORDING TO WHAT MY MOM TOLD ME.I HATE DOCTORS ONLY BECAUSE NOW | M | 8 | 1 months 5 | 3/26/2014 | 5 | I was diagnosed with ADD at 14 | Cold sweats (funny odor), heart racing or skipping beats, loss of appetite, blurred vision, increased bowel movements, dry mouth, lack of thirst, flat personality, overly outgoing personality, productive even with things I hate to do (and would not do if it wasn't for the damn pill), insomnia, blacking out while drinking (even small amounts), spacing out, distant in social situations, memory loss, lack of enjoyment in things I used to do when I am not on it, increased dosage due to tolerance, loss of appetite, insomnia I was diagnosed with A.D.D. when I was 14 or so, my whole family was actually. To this day I wonder if that was true. My dad eventually quit taking medication for it, my brother should take medication for it, and my mom eventually started using illegal amphetamines when her doctors stopped prescribing her "enough" do to hypertension and high blood pressure. As for me, I have taken it off and on over the years, I find the times in my life when I take it, I am | I can tell through years of taking it that my brain goes fuzzy when I don't. Even now when I'm on it I seem to have trouble with my memory. When I mix it with alcohol (horrific mix) I only need a drink or two before I blackout. I fear telling people when I do because I don't want to know what I said or did. Lately, I have been having bad insomnia. I've taken this for years and didn't have this problem until recently. I'm trying to get my life together, doing things I don't want to do, which this pill is good for, but I'm starting to think the physical side effects and long term damage aren't worth it. So then what? Fuck off my life until I give in and start taking it again? I've seen this medication do wonders, I've seen it wreck lives. I don't really know where I fall in this spectrum, but I know this stuff is nasty... super bad for me, but I depend on it now. I truly wish I had never taken this stuff. Parents or people considering taking this drug, seriously reconsider. This is a life long decision with a high potential for negative outcomes. I think you should allow yourself or your children to be the way they are, and find social, mental, physical outlets and ways to be accomplished and successful without the drug. Also research what it does to your dopamine stores in your brain. Coming off of it after years of use can lead to a pretty lack luster view of life. That being said... time for another dose. Sigh. | F | 25 | 16 years 20 2X day | 3/22/2014 | 3 | ADHD | dramatic appetite and subsequent weight loss / sleeplessness / intense thirst / agitation | It's tricky, because Adderall has done some wonders for me, but not without it's heavy price. Most significantly: I am much, much more antisocial when I take Adderall. I used to be a hard partier, going out four nights a week. Now I go out once a month. I've lost touch with many friends. I get irritable or uncomfortable around people. I get very paranoid. I have a hellish sleep schedule. I was always lean, but I've lost about 20 lbs. I have to force myself to eat. And I crave liquids, especially sweet things like soda and energy drinks. I've become reckless. And it's addictive as all get out. There are many days I find myself taking twice my dose. If I run out early, I count down the days to my refill, finding myself incapacitated otherwise. But - I'm a junior at a prestigious college and I have straight As. My teachers rave about my work ethic and my dedication. It's boosted my sex drive significantly, as has my confidence. I juggle a full school schedule with several internships, side projects, a boyfriend, etc. My focus is often streamlined and my the work produced is high caliber. Ultimately - it's a double sided sword. Has it helped me? Enormously. Am I a different person than when I started taking it? Unquestionably, almost unrecognizably transformed. So seriously weight the consequences before you start. Because no matter how strong you think you are, the drug will suck you in. Some days, it's beyond worth it. Some days i'm in hell. | M | 20 | 1 years 20MG 2X day | 3/22/2014 |