ADDERALL 10 Reviews (AMPHETAMINE ASPARTATE; AMPHETAMINE SULFATE; DEXTROAMPHETAMINE SACCHARATE; DEXTROAMPHETAMINE SULFATE)Average Rating: 3.6 (842 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare ADDERALL 10 with similar:
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| 5 | supplement my antidepressant | You can get hypomanic on this drug, so you have to use some discipline. | This is a fine drug. Four mixed salts of amphetamine can't be all bad! (Just kidding.) Seriously, it focuses your mind, elevates your sex drive, improves your mood, helps you concentrate on long drives, and you can break dance - quite well - on your first try. Getting an Rx for this difficult if you're not a bona fide ADHD (which I'm not). My shrink is not intimidated by the potential for criticism if he thinks something is helping me, so I lucked out. Love the stuff. | M | 58 | 12 months | 3/24/2006 | 1 | ADD | racing heart, anxiety, shortness of breath, panic attacks | I did not like Adderall at all. The benefits did not outweigh the side effects. Changed to Concerta for a year. Today I am changing to Focalin. | F | 35 | 1 months | 3/20/2006 | 4 | GAD or ADHD ?? | Slight trembling and cold extremedies. | Prescribed as an experiment for anxiety. I have had severe anxiety/stress syptoms without worry my whole life, they got really bad when I joned the workforce. I have a very fast mind and a terrible time focusing, which I thought was because of anxiety. As each day progressed i would develop real physical discomfort from the stress of trying to concentrate and think ( I have a very intellectually and mentally challenging job). I would wake up great and then it would just get worse and worse throughout the day. We kept trying to fix the anxiety. Over the last 3 years, I took all kinds of anti-anxiety meds (lexapro, klonapin, xanax, buspar...) and nothing worked. Turns out it that Adderall XR focuses me, calms me down enormously and helps me sit still. 20mg every morning, Sundays off. Now we are thinking it is classic ADHD causing severe anxiety symptoms. | M | 33 | 2 months | 3/18/2006 | 4 | ADD | The first thing I noticed was my loss of appetite. I ate a lot less than I usually did and that caused me to go from 170 lbs. to 114 lbs. in a little over a year. I was on 30 mg. at that point. I also saw a gigantic change in my grades- for the better. I was able to sit down and do homework for hours on end. In many ways that was good, but the Adderall XR really took a toll on my heart and I ended up in the ER with chest pains. They told me I had tachycardia and it was most likely caused by the medicine. So I was forced to go through the process of finding a different dosage all over again and ended up at 20 mg. It doesn't work quite as well for me and I've gained some weight, but I guess that's the best I can do right now. There might be a possible lower sex drive. | I say take it if you need it, but if you don't- don't bother. I get frustrated here at college because people are always talking about how they are using Adderall all the time and blah, blah, blah... Fortunately I haven't told many people that I use it because if I did they would be banging down my door. Use Adderall if you actually have a clinical issue. Don't abuse it because that's just dumb. | F | 18 | 2 years | 3/16/2006 | 5 | ADD | jitteriness, anxiety, decreased appetite, sometimes makes me a different person | i do love this medication. i was first put on strattera and the docter put me on 60 milligrams every day, and for a hundred pound me, that doesnt work. it "built up" | F | 15 | 1 years | 3/12/2006 | 3 | ADD | Tired (Late afternoon) Personality change, Moody, Loss of appitite, Trouble sleeping at night | I don't seem to want to go out with my friend anymore and they have all notices.I also have a restless mind at night so it's hard to sleep.I get really tired late afternoon. I have also had problems with my contacts they seem to start bothering me late afternoon as well and i've had them for about 4 years, and that just began after the medication.However I am doing much better in school grade have jumped a lot.And i don't have to study nearly as long as I used to.But I have gotten sick 6 times since I have startedthe medication to the point when I would miss classes. And ive only been on it for 5 months. Should I stay on it or not? Please email me with any advice | F | 20 | 5 months | 3/6/2006 | 4 | adhd | loss of sexual drive, loss of weight, grinding of teeth and chewing on sides of mouth, insomnia | its a great medicine i have tried everything out there and this one seems to be the best for me. i take 30 mg at 8:00 and then at 12 so i get 60 mgs a day. i do have to take a night time pill of ambien to get some sleep. | F | 32 | 2 years | 2/22/2006 | 4 | ADHD and Depression | Teeth Clenching is very uncomfortable. Better social interaction. I am now able to concentrate and make order of my daily activities where before I was skattered. I have to be careful when entering difficult discussions due to this drug causing me to be agitated and slightly angry. With care I can control this aspect of the drug. | Weekend and Days Off breaks from this drug help control my need to up the dose. The XR dose works well for me. | M | 58 | 1.5 years | 2/19/2006 | 4 | ADD | Headaches when it starts to wear off. Adderall and my birthcontrol pills contributed to me having a severe migraine that appeared as a stroke and put me in the ER. Weight loss. Constant coldness. Feeling tingly all over. Eyes feel glossy towards the end of the day. Decreased social life. Dizziness. Not being able to function at all in class unless i have taken the medicine. | My grades improved dramatically. But, i went from being a very social well liked person to pretty much not having any friends at all. I can't really stand social situations anymore, especially in school because I just want to focus and get my work done. Even though it has pretty much murdered my social life, it has changed my life for the better, especially since im a senior in high school and need to be focused on school right now. It really helped me realize that i am a smart person and that i am capable of doing well in school. | F | 18 | 2 years | 2/13/2006 | 5 | help with school | dry mouth, shrinkage (guys you know) | really does help with concentration and staying awake in school, if you can get by without it though, do | M | 15 | 5 months | 2/6/2006 | 5 | ADHD | Slight mental dependency, decreased appetite (which is a blessing), I became jittery at times, and sometimes hard to breathe. | So worth the side effects! It has helped me a lot. Without medication, I am very hyper and can't focus at all, especially on something I am not interested in (school work is one good example), but with Adderall, I am very focused and all of my energy seems to be directed towards something productive, whether it is school work or cleaning my room. | F | 17 | 5 years | 1/19/2006 | 2 | assumed adult ADHD | majorly increased heart-rate, felt very hypoglycemic | I took 15mg, then 30, then 45. It never helped. I don't think I have ADHD though. But I definitely did not like the feeling of hypoglycemia, shaky and dizzy. I was also able to sleep no matter what time I took it. Don't know why in the world people get addicted to it, but as I've said in other posts, everyone reacts different to drugs. | F | 31 | 4 days | 1/11/2006 | 5 | ADHD, Appetite Suppression | Side effects were present but limited to a harsh, time-consuming come down (unlike ritalin which is more intense come down but for a shorter length of time). Caused me anxiety and agitation. | While I have written what looks like a substantial laundry list of complaints, Adderall and Adderall XR have been my WONDER DRUGS! Nothing I have EVER tried (except for addictive benzos) has helped at all for anxiety/depression. And out of the half dozen or so ADHD meds I've tried, it's a close call between short-acting Dexedrine and (time-release Adderall). The XR takes about 90 minutes to kick in...and come down varies wildly between 6 and 12 hours for me! XR loses effectiveness quickly. Short-acting adderall works about as short time as Ritalin for me...I'd might be in my system for several more hours, but the initial high is mitigated extremely quickly by come down after an hour or two. Proper dosage hard to determine (unlike XR). | M | 22 | 3 years | 1/8/2006 | 5 | i took it because they told me to | 16 years experience, it got me feeling so good i eventually got kicked out of school. now that im 23, i control how much i take and how many different doctors i go to to get it. my skin is nice, my eyes are real big. people say i am a breath of fresh air, always smiling, never really in reality.. when i am.. im asleep or tending to the other two of the three A's, that would be acid or alcohol. the side effects would suck if i were to stop at one pill a day. finish off that bottle, that way you only notice the effects once.. and it does nothing to me but make me lazy and chill. i love my days of rest..and i love waking up and going back out into the world only to be one who people call the voice of reason. if they only knew. | think about the big picture.. you can live your life taking something everyday back and forth, on top of things one day, and then feeling like you don't know who you are when you experience a moment of that person you think you once were.. you will never really know till you hear the voices... everyone who has a brain knows they are never there... don't tweak.. this stuff is FDA approved... Crack makes you tweak.. listen to every word.. its your mind messing with you, its a part of your mind you can't control, if you can't take it for what its worth, your missing something very important being told to only you by the one that knows you best... yourself. | F | 23 | 16 years | 1/6/2006 | 1 | Boyfriend on Adderall | Noticed side effects: Loss of appetite, irratiablity, memory loss, sexual disfunction. | Although I am not on this drug, I can tell you the side effects that I noticed my boyfriend is experiencing. It sucks. I have seen a total change in his behavior. He also frequently complains of headaches. This drug causes more harm than good. I fear that he is addicted to it and will not stop its use. He was prescribed it in conjunction with Lexapro because of depression. Interestingly, it seems to have caused depression. That makes perfect sense. I am glad someone is making money off of this dangerous product. | F | 26 | | 1/6/2006 | 3 | Depression, fatigue | Exactly one hour after taking a 10 mg. tablet, I would feel energized. But the effect lasted for only an hour. My doctor increased dosage from 30 mg. to 40 mg., and I occasionally cheated, taking it as high as 60 mg. In other words, tolerance is a problem along with possible addiction. Also, I've had chronic stomach pain only since taking this drug. | I switched to Ritalin but its effect seems to be identical with Adderall. At least with Adderall, you can easily break a tablet into two, making it easier to taper off. | M | 59 | 6 years | 1/4/2006 | 1 | ADHD | stroke, massive memory loss, paranoia, aggression. | It was hell. I had a stroke that nearly killed me. A friend who was also on adderall also suffered one of the other side effects that I had, severe memory loss. I have lost over half of my memories. I also had severe aggression, paranoia and the list just goes like that. | M | 15 | 4 years | 12/12/2005 | 3 | ADD | loss of sleep, bad breath, bad taste in mouth, dry mouth, rapid heartbeat | I AM FRUSTRATED. Adderall has improved my grades dramatically. I am motivated to do my homework and study, and I pay attention in class...impossible without the medication. I have tried concerta and several different forms of adderall, and this is the only medication that works. I take 20 mg. Although it helps me in school, I have notice friendships start to deteriorate and I don't know why. I sometimes feel like not going out on weekends and just staying home. If i go a day without taking it, i feel very tired and sad for no reason. My breath also smells really bad. It feels good to be so on top of my school work but the side affects are just too much. I'm afraid that the adderall will lead to depression when i'm older. Email me if you can help me. | F | 17 | 6 months | 12/9/2005 | 5 | ADD | Jitternesss and loss of appitite. | I think this grug is great. I've haven't been taking it very long and it's helped me to concentrate at school. I now love doing homework and learning, but before I started taking this drug it felt like a chore. I had always felt like a failure in school and would barely ever go to class because I knew that I wasn't realy learning, so I kind of just gave up. I truly believe that if you have kids or are thinking about going on medication for ADD and are nervous about it, you should definitely go on this drug. Just remember not to go on it if you have any heart trouble, because it can cause death in that case. | F | 16 | 2 days | 11/23/2005 | 4 | AADD | Increased attention span and ability to focus. Increased memory capacity in both the short and long term. Euphoria. Difficulty eating and sleeping. Clammy skin. Addiction/Drug Dependency. Dry mouth and/or severe thirst. Difficulty breathing and/or wheezing. Cramping of the lower torso (abs and back). Dhiareah. Constipation. Increased sexual desire. Inability to get or maintain an erection. Increased or erratic heart rate. Dizzyness. Deep, severe cough. Depression. Social Anxiety. Increased social confidence. Increased sweatiness. Jitters. Chills. Increased obsessive behavior such as hair pulling and teeth grinding. Difficulting urinating and/or frequent urination. Skin rash/irritation middle chest. Mouth sores or sensitive mouth tissue. | With time as dosage is increased the negative side effects become more prevalant. In my experience most of the more extreme negative side-effects occur as a result of high or increased dosage, and misuse (shallow breathing, coughing, chills, etc.). My first dose of Adderall was 10mg and was enough to have me feeling euphoric for hours afterward with limited or no negative side-effects. Over time, 10mg just wasn't doing the same and my dose was increased gradually from 10mg per-day to 60-80mg per day. Occassionaly I would take more than recommended, and on rare occurances I would take way more than any one person should probably ever at one time. The hard part is taking only the right amout at the right time(s). To that effect, If one can master the use of Adderall on a daily basis, one becomes a more logical, creative, harder working, motivated and focused individual. However the opposite occurs if you chase the initial high. I had to learn that the hard way; it is vital to the | M | 25 | 3 years | 11/15/2005 |