DEXEDRINE Reviews (DEXTROAMPHETAMINE SULFATE)Average Rating: 3.9 (128 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare DEXEDRINE with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR DEXEDRINE | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | Adult ADHD | I was taking dexedrine spans u Les 15mg twice a day (30 a day total) and even when I just took it once a day it was awful. Insomnia, didn't sleep for days, irritability, extreme mood swings, anger outbursts and sudden crying, uncontrollable rage, apathy, desire to hurt others and myself, paranoia, thought my bosses wanted to try to come up with reasons to fire me, irrational thinking, anhedonia. Symptoms sneak up on you too. I didn't have the weird anxiety that I had with adderall ir but I was basically in a bipolar meltdown and I didn't even realize how bad it was until my boss and friends kept telling me something was wrong. When I went off of it I could tell that my behavior the past couple months was bizarre and irrational. I would never take medication again before I take this garbage. | F | 26 | 2 months 30 mg | 10/9/2015 | 1 | ADHD | This drug is neurotoxic to the brains dopamine neurons. Type in "amphetamine neurotoxicity", "amphetamine and parkinsons risk" or "dopaminergic dysfunction in dextroamphetamine users" and you will see what I'm talking about. | I dare any user of this drug to stop for a month and see if they can get the same amount of pleasure in life that they could before taking this poison. It will ruin your relationships and eventually turn you into a productive yet souless robot. | M | 18 | 6 weeks 20mg | 9/12/2015 | 3 | ADHD | Sleep loss, fast speech,major weight loss went from 250 to 180 lbs in 4-5 months. Seems to control ADHD half the time and rest makes you more agitated. Dont recommend any previous addicts, not just drugs but anything if you have an addictive personallity save yourself of the lure this may have. I been fine but have met many people who only sleep if these pills dont get in their body. | Keep a watch and have someone who knkws you do the same. | M | 27 | 1 years 50 | 8/9/2015 | 3 | ADD | Headaches , slightly high blood pressure,I become a lot more ontroverted and my anxiety skyrockets. | I think i might have started building up a tolerance to it though .(on the max recommended dosage now and it has little effect) The withdrawl... probably one of the greatest things about stratera , always a fun time. I become giddy and outgoing, increased libido and full of energy | M | 19 | 7 years 80mg 1X day | 4/23/2015 | 2 | ADD | Painful,gritty, burning itchy eyes. Lack of appetite, fatigue, no motivation, weakness, no desire to socialize, feet burning hot and tingly, numb pushed in feeling on left side of face and insomnia | I have decided to go off this drug. I can lay in bed and produce website content, research or read but I am useless once I put my feet on the ground. It feels like I have sensory overload. Too loud, too bright, too hot or cold. I feel weird around people like this. Side effects this severe should have worn off by now. Too bad though because I can focus on producing material a lot better. Tinnitus gets very distracting at times though. The problem with my eyes is a complete deal breaker. It's nasty. On to the next experiment I guess. | F | 54 | 3 months 20mg + 15m 2X day | 3/3/2015 | 2 | ADHD | Palpitations | Compared to when I was taking adderall for two years,dexedrine does not do a damn thing for my ADHD and the palpitations are real bad. Especially hours after dose wore off. Does not suppress my appetite at all does not keep me awake does not cause dry mouth which is good adderall was terrible for those side effects but dexedrine just does not work | F | 40 | 4 months 15mg | 11/6/2014 | 4 | Narcolepsy w/ Cataplexy | Increased energy, increased productivity and awake time and motivation. Lost 50 lbs since having motivation & energy to go to gym & exercise. Dry mouth is gross, weird fixation with teeth...my teeth sometimes felt like they wanted to pop out of my mouth snd my tongue would constantly be massaging them sometimes. I took as break on weekends to decrease tolerance and only took 10mg (IR) as needed. Increased heart rate if drinking caffeine wasnt fun and sweating and heat intolerance sometimes sucked. Overall I prefer this to Modafinil because although Modafinil helped with concentration and increasing my analytical skills it also decreased my "awake time" and Modafinil also decreased my productivity due to my increased hyper-analyzing and obsessing over things I wouldn't normally obsess over. I guess if my goal was to stay home and paint or be a recluse in office and analyze data all day Modafinil would be okay...but I prefer to interact with business clients & professionals in business & social settings and my career goals require a more extroverted lifestyle. | F | 39 | 2 years 15mg ER | 5/28/2014 | 4 | ADD | Headaches, teeth grinding, tremors, night sweats, extreme appetite loss (from 170lbs to 100lbs in 5 months), immediate withdrawal symptoms when missing a dosage, slight loss of sexual interest, dry mouth, bad breath, poor circulation, anxiety | F | 31 | 10 years 40 - 20mg | 1/22/2014 | 2 | ADHD | Appetite Loss, Stomach Upset, Diarrhea | M | 24 | 4 months 30 | 1/6/2014 | 3 | ADD | Loss of appetite. Weight loss. | I found that dexedrine helped me to stay on task more. Down side that I found was that if I were to have caffeine during my day (equivalent to a coffee or more) I would often not sleep that night for anymore than an hour (if that). Worst side effect that came along with dexedrine: When I started taking dexedrine I weighed in at 170lbs (I'm 6"1'). I found that within the first week of using dexedrine, my appetite declined dramatically. I began to skip breakfast and lunch daily. I would usually only eat dinner and when I did eat dinner I didn't eat very much even if it was one of my favorite meals. Food just lost its attraction for me. When I finished my second month of dexedrine and had to go back to the doctor for another prescription, my doctor was worried about my weight and weighed me in at 127lbs. and took me off of dexedrine immediately. I haven't used meds for my so called "ADD" since and had trouble gaining weight again after (approx. a year after ending I weighed in at 150lbs.) and now 3 years later I weigh in at 210lbs (still 6"1') | M | 17 | 2 months 30MG 1X day | 12/17/2013 | 5 | for adhd | None just helped me get things done better than adderrall | F | 39 | 1 days 30 mg | 7/31/2013 | 5 | inattentive ADHD | overlapping dosages increases heart rate to an uncomfortable state, so it is very important to follow dosage directions closely. If you take a full prescription half way through the day you will not sleep, so only take half a dosage if you find yourself in that predicament. this medication was the first one I was completely satisfied with, no side effects mentally, just hard on body physically. Take care of yourself and don't push your heart. | M | 25 | 2 years | 7/11/2013 | 5 | hyperactivity | I don't like long acting meds because they take my appetite away and it turns on me nuts from malnutrition but I grew up on this and I tried the 10 mg Dextrostat and Dexedrine too... but this company makes drugs that the fillers turned Ritalin and Vicodin into mood swings and the lower dose tabs of these and ER doses made me nuts... but the 10mg generic from Mallinckrodt works great... barr beats another med... I most likely will get the new Wilshire soon... there are differences but they are great meds... I grew up on this and when I had it how it worked the best... 20 mg TID... I did great. I could eat when I had breaks and vitamins B, magnesium, chlorella and spirulina, coq10... i hated it in school... I was in ap classes but I finished really early and would leave or drive the class nuts... i had to fail everything to get the tabs again even after years... but she agreed, called me in the old dose and I could keep a train of thought and i like having times when it wore off and I could eat (a little)... because the breaks change priorities and I dont overdo it. | M | 31 | 10 years 60 mg | 5/3/2013 | 4 | ADHD/Idiopathic Hypersomnia/SleepAp | Inability to fall asleep (until 12 hrs after last dose), clenching of the jaw, and lack of appetite (until medication wears off). | However, although I have some improved focus, I have not experienced the improvement in short-term working memory that I experienced when I was briefly on a higher dose of Ritalin (90mg). At that point I could hold on to my thoughts longs enough to let someone else talk, and not panic that I was going to forget what I was thinking. I could also think a couple steps ahead in chess without losing my place. This medicine, however, appears to be a ‘middle-of-the-road’ for me (between Ritalin and Adderall). After two months on this medicine, I still lack both the short-term memory benefits of a higher Ritalin dosage, as well as a sizable improvement in energy, as experienced on Adderall. I’m still hoping for some sizable improvements in these areas, but as of yet, they haven’t come in any markable quantities. Originally, the side-effects were the following: Inability to fall asleep (until 12 hrs after last dose), clenching of the jaw, and lack of appetite (until medication wears off). Two months on the medication and the inability to sleep has dropped to around 7-8 hrs, I don't clench my jaw as much, and my appetite is returning. Originally, the benefits included the following: Dramatic reduction in mental fatigue, I quit (mostly) interrupting others, increased ability to tune out other stimuli when performing an activity, and a noticeable improvement of will power (when it came to sugary foods). Two months after starting the medication, | M | 42 | 2 months 70mg (day) 3X day | 4/3/2013 | 4 | (See my comments below.) | Because my condition is very unique and fairly complicated, it would be inaccurate for me to characterize anything I have experienced as a side effect. However, I will say this. For the better part of the last 18 years I've taken either "mixed salt" amphetamine tablets (Adderall: dextro & levo) or "dextro only" amphetamine tablets (Dexedrine tablets: dextro only). For the last 9 years I've only taken Dexedrine (Generic Brand: Dextrostat). I will always be indebted to the person who posted a "Addreall vs Dexedrine" type of comment on one of the many sites I was using to try and identify individuals with a similar experience to my own. This one comment would have a significant impact on my life in the years that followed. This was the gist of the posted comment I read. ...Most of the negative side effects experienced by people taking Addreall are believed to come from the "levo" side of the mixture (the left-handed amphetamine molecul | So here is my suggestion for anyone out there who has been taking Adderall for any length of time; and maybe you feel like you couldn't function without Adderall now, because it absolutely enables you to "do" what you couldn't "do" without it. If you feel like there is a lot of other "crap" (for lack of a better word) you've had to manage, or tolerate, because you have just accepted that to get the good effects you have to put up with the bad effects, if this rings true for you, then I would encourage you to try just the dextro-amphetamine and see if you can't do even better than you're doing now. (If you've ever heard of someone doing better on Focalin than they did on Ritalin, what I've written about here is exactly the same thing. One notable difference is the fact that Dexedrine came out 40 years BEFORE Adderall, whereas Focalin was introduced roughly 40 years AFTER Ritalin.) Now my last word, will be to say that I found I needed the same amount of Dexedrine as I did of Adderall. This is contrary to what the chemists/mathematicians believe. They say that 20mg of dextroamphetamine sulfate is more active than 20mg of dextro- and levo-amphetamine. (Think of the Adderall as being a little diluted.) But according to MY BODY, "less" was not "more", "less" was just "less". If you mention this in the beginning, maybe it won't be a big hurdle if you find that you need more than a "calculated eq | M | 47 | 9 years 60mg daily 9X day | 8/15/2012 | 5 | add | First ihave to say do not. Take. Every single day take down 4 days and upps. 3 days avoid problems in this way l also say take. Q10 everydayy | M | 57 | 10 years 10mg | 7/6/2012 | 1 | ADHD | Severe weight loss | I took this as a kid, and I was disgustingly skinny, even though I ate a lot! | F | 21 | 6 years 1X day | 5/13/2012 | 5 | Adult ADHD, depression, weight loss | Jaw clenching, decreased sex drive, anxious when I dont have something to do, increased need for cigarettes. If I take it after 10AM I cant sleep the whole night | Dexadrine has made such a wonderful difference in my life, I actually have motivation! I get up and clean my house I can focus on my work no matter how tedious it is. I've been losing the weight I had put on with my depression which is a nice bonus. I feel the cons are worth putting up with because it has had such a great impact... I love being out and doing things now but I do feel that its good to take breaks from the pills at times, I do 3 weeks on and one off. | 22 | 1 years 20 1X day | 4/16/2012 | 4 | ADHD | at the start i had more energy then i ever had b4 in my life. i started to work out regularly and became really focused. i went from d's and c's to straight a''s. Then came the problems, jitters,insomnia, and a massive loss of appitite. for me the positive outweight the negaitve so i have learned to live with sleeping 2-3hrs a day for about 20+years. i must make myself eat because i know i should be hungry, and i try to sleep because i know that w/o sleep is a bad thing 2. After 20+years of meds i have anxiety, loss of appitite, social problems, acid reflux problems, i believe heart problems, "allthough not diagnosed", leg pains everyday, but .. I look great, have a good job and stay focused, have a great family and a super hot wife, you choose. | Im really not sure about longer effects then me but i am starting to feel worn out at times. Im last up and first up everyday. Hopefully i have enough steam in the engine to last another 35+years. lol oh wait i got dex that will do. | M | 36 | 23 years 15 1X day | 3/20/2012 | 5 | ADD/Weight loss | Heart beat increased a great deal, skin picking, anxiety,insomnia (if taken after noon), mood swings, social awkwardness, EXTREME weight loss, psychological problems such as tics, talking to myself and zoning out while doing so. This drug has terrible withdrawal effects such as chronic fatigue and depression. I couldn't get out of bed the whole week that I didn't take it. | The upside of this drug is that it helped me put my life back together and my depression decreased. I lost 20 pounds on the dexedrine spansules because it made me feel the urge to walk everywhere. The spansules last for a long time. Another upper about dexedrine is that after I started taking it I stopped having an urge to drink alcohol. At first I didn't seem "cracked" out on it but I'm starting to feel those effects more recently. | F | 24 | 2 years 30-40MG 1X day | 2/27/2012 |