VYVANSE Reviews (LISDEXAMFETAMINE DIMESYLATE)Average Rating: 3.4 (640 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare VYVANSE with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR VYVANSE | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | Adult ADHD | SO sweaty even though it's fairly cold outside right now. I never eat, but I make myself eat at least once a day and after that I feel sick. Diarrhea. Insomnia.... That's why I'm doing this now. But I can definely pay more attention to things. I'm no where never as lazy as I was! I love it. It's totally changed my lifestyle | F | 19 | 2 days 20 MG | 11/14/2013 | 3 | ADD | Constant dry mouth and thirst no matter how much water I drink. Decreased appetite but I've been on adderall before this and have a system for making sure I eat enough even if I don't want to. Hard to tell if it makes me less social since I am always pretty disinterested in conversation. Hard time going to sleep if I take it past 10 am, usually can force myself to sleep by 3 or 4 am but sometimes I just stay awake all night. Increased heart rate which makes working out difficult, but I still do it. I find when I go a day without Vyvanse, I can't force myself to workout or do much of anything. All of these symptoms are manageable and worth handling because it helps me so much with even the simplest of tasks throughout my day. The only symptom that makes me want to switch medication is the heat and sweating. I sweat horribly, all day long. I can't take it during the summer when it's already hot outside. In the winter I am okay outside but walking indoors is torture | Better than Adderall because it really does last all day long. Although eating is just as difficult and food makes the drug feel slightly weaker, you can eat. On Adderall if I ate anything, the medication would be useless. But the constant heat I feel is close to unbearable, definitely considering switching. | F | 20 | 6 months 50 MG 1X day | 11/12/2013 | 4 | Tired all the time | Decreased appetite, not complaining though. Sweating, even when I'm cold. If I don't take it one day all I do is sleep..for like 18 hours. I take it with Zoloft. Helps me wake up and not be tired all the time. Despite negative side effects, definitely worth it. I feel like I could go higher on dose though sometimes. And if I take it too late in the day (past 10 or 11am), sometimes I have a hard time going to sleep. I work nights and it's helped a ton flipping my schedule back and forth. | F | 24 | 2 months 100 mg | 11/1/2013 | 1 | ADD....iction | i feel like if i dont take enough im not "good enough". havent slept in 3 days, smoke like a freight train because it makes me crave nicotine, feal no emotion. if you love your family and friends and have a girlfriend or boyfriend that you really care about dont take this drug. you will become detached from everyone you love and feal nothing but an empty hole that you fill with more and more vyvance. i used to be so social and have so many friends, now everyone calls me cocky or rude just because i dont talk, but its because im too busy thinking of how lucky they all are that there not addicted to this insane excuse of a drug that so many people have fallen into its trap. dont listen to anyone tell you that this drug is "safer" and "not addictive" because the worthless bastards only care about the billions of dolars there making from people who want to "better themselves". No one at Shire gives a fuck that the "mirical drug" that they created is really nothing but a white powder that makes your life feal like an endless hell hole. | M | 19 | 4 years 70-210 mg | 10/30/2013 | 1 | ADHD | It's horrid. Sometimes I question myself as to weather or not I'm human while on this drug. The pills do what they're supposed to- keeping me concentrated and focused on the task at hand. I have created some awesome stuff while on it. Heck, I got a 4.0 GPA. I was diagnosed with ADHD in third grade. I was a rebel child and refused to take the pills they gave me (a meltdown was good enough to convince my parents to get me off the pills). I passed through sophomore year with almost decent grades so my parents didn't push it. I first started taking vyvanse my junior year. At the beginning was pretty good, I got so much accomplished and I was pretty proud of myself. Unfortunately the cons outweigh the pros. I can't sleep, I can't remember any of my dreams, I would forget to eat for days at a time, I have lost my creative passion, and I physically can not make any sort of conversation with people. That was just during the school day. By 8PM I am miserable. I feel like just a shell of my normal self. I'm not actually me. (Is it possible for the drug to cause multi-personality disorders?). There's this deep emptiness in me wherever I look. My mind is exhausted but it's still racing with thoughts of nothingness. I'm so miserable that I want to cry but it's close to impossible to show any sort of emotion. On the few times I have cried in this drug there is no sense of relief, only utter despair. It makes me focus on all the negatives; I become trapped and a prisoner of my own mi | F | 17 | 2 years 50 | 10/29/2013 | 5 | adhd | Overall my life was a lot more productive while on the medication. That is why I opted to go back on it. Withdrawal was horrid though. I do remember having a problem one year with what I call store-tweaking, where I would intend to go a store for 5 minutes and it would ALWAYS turn into an, a least, 3 hour shopping trip, but it would only feel like a half hour to me..... Its definitely a drug that reduced some of my brain's ability to work efficiently in some ways but its pro's outweigh the con's, I also lost the ability to articulate which used to be my strength, and have memory lapses that can be likened to Alzheimers.... although they are reduced when on the medication. As well I experience the evening bouts of impatience, and kind of a 'coldness' where I dont feel like dealing with people. They really need to do something to adjust this drug.....I know they can. | Took it for almost 2 yrs then stopped a yr, now back on 1 wk. The Strengnths of this medication for me is that it reduces my tendency to paralyze due to being overwhelmed by a task, conversation, activity, chore or creative solutions. Sounds ridiculous but that is one of my issues. I froze during the beggining of the year I was off the medication, but then began working on skills to improve my ability to manage life, when I got to a place where I was exerting as much effort as I could but still falling short...(was about to lose a job I just got, because of some of my Adhd symptoms that I couldn't keep track of, (losing things, forgetting things I was trained on, and unable to draw common sense conclusions, because my mind was overwhelmed with processing information) I was able to go back on the meds just in time, and my performance was comparatively like night and day. I can also start AND stop tasks appropriately. So no more store-tweaking :) | F | 32 | 30mg 1X day | 10/4/2013 | 5 | ADD | Lightheadedness, dizziness, shaking, confusion, loss of appetite, sleeplessness. | F | 16 | 3 years 60mg | 9/23/2013 | 5 | adhd | I had one main side effect. When I went to emergency the other day they had given me ibuprofen 800mg for a pain I had well it was the wrong move after I told them I was taking ADHD medication. It made me act like I was crazy like I was turning evil. | F | 6 days 60 | 9/3/2013 | 1 | ADHD | Lack of personality, agitation, dizziness, penile shrinkage(flaccid), erectile dysfunction, trouble sleeping | M | 17 | 2 years 40mg | 8/19/2013 | 1 | adhd | Severe anxiety attack, lose of appetite, dry mouth, blurr vision, jittery, nervouse, paranoid | F | 23 | 1 months 60mg | 8/17/2013 | 5 | Eating disorder,racing thoughts | -Loss of appetite -insomnia (better the second day) -Always thirsty, never feel like I have had enough water -Frequent urge to pee, even when I do not have to -Rapid heart beat when doing anything other than sitting or lying down | Although I have only been on this med for a few days, I have already felt the effects, and side effects. Right now I am on 20mg, but am going up to 60 gradually (over 10 days). My psych prescribed this med for a few reasons. I have bipolar disorder, rapid cycling, mix-ed state (which means, without meds, I have it consistently). Even with meds, I have racing, obsessive thoughts. This drug has helped immediately. What used to keep me up at night doesn't anymore. I can focus on things without being distracted by several negative things at once. I am also on this because I struggle with bulimia, and have for 15 years. This medication suppresses my appetite, which helps me not think about food, and not be hungry. I do have to force myself to eat so that I do not fall back into anorexia. I'm finding myself more upbeat, and more focused on tasks. | F | 32 | 4 days 20 1X day | 6/20/2013 | 5 | ADD | Definitely helps me focus, just tapers off in the late after noon...and unfortunately I strongly believe that I am the only person that has not dropped any weight. I'm overweight and figured that would be a plus. Nope, other than that this medicine has helped me with work, home and relationships. | F | 34 | 5 months 70 mb | 6/10/2013 | 3 | ADD | Insomnia, Depression, loss of appetite, agitation, aggression, | I've been medicated for A.D.D since age six. I've tried countless medications for it : Ritalin Adderal, patches, you name it. When I started taking Vyvanse it was great. The only side effect was that I wasn't really hungry and could miss a meal or two and as a teen girl, sadly, I didn't see that as a problem. I started to notice that on the days I forgot to take it, I felt just terrible. I was aggressive, I didn't want to do anything, I couldn't wait to leave school, I couldn't stop eating, everything made me stressed. I've also been depressed and can hardly sleep and I'm not sure what to do anymore. Do your kids a favor. Instead of medication try meditation..meds should be a last resort. | F | 17 | 4 years 50mg 1X day | 6/9/2013 | 3 | ADD | no appetite, once a week terrible crashes, the hole day (not just at the end or when the pill wears off) im hateful-antisocial-angry-agitated-and depressed. i dont talk. i get lots of things done. i hate NOT doing work or assignments in school. obsessive skin picking nail chewing knuckle cracking and lip biting. | F | 14 | 4 months 60mg | 5/13/2013 | 5 | ADD | Slightly lower appetite, easier to stay in shape (girlfriends have appreciated this...), mild OCD-esque tendencies (e.g. more attention to hygiene, desk organization, paper formatting, etc.; occasional knuckle-cracking), drowsiness in mid-afternoons that I deal with by taking a nap or drinking some coffee, heightened sociability (sometimes spend too long talking to people and get less work done as a result), sometimes procrastinate on stressful work by doing other less valuable work but I think I've always done this, sense that time is passing more quickly when I'm working on projects (more "flow" states, in the positive psychology sense), better self-esteem, less facial oiliness and acne, more facial oiliness and risk of acne breakouts if too much caffeine is consumed, dry mouth for the first few months but has since stopped, some reduction in sex drive, occasional depression or irritability in evenings but taking a late-afternoon 20mg dose and a morning dose of extended-rel | Enables me to do abstract mathematics, prevents making so many stupid errors when writing software, helps me understand complex material. It's as if the structures I build in my mind are held frozen in place instead of bouncing around and falling apart like they used to. Makes the constant songs/soundbytes/static running through my head stop. Makes me less forgetful/"absent-minded". I no longer space out in the middle of conversations/presentations/work all the time. Makes me more articulate and poised; helps prevent speaking (or snapping...) before thinking. Helps me notice details, subtleties. Slight anti-anxiety. Makes me more motivated and better at planning. Can better harness my natural creativity. Has improved my career, income, and self-esteem beyond my wildest dreams. Takes ~40-60 minutes to notice effects; ~90 to fully kick in. Mild euphoria from ~T+60min to ~T+180min. Some afternoon drowsiness. Makes naps feel better for some reason. Annoyingly only lasts ~5-7 hrs, so I also take a 20mg late afternoon dose: some still appears to be in my system by then, just not enough to do what it's supposed to. Surprisingly not very addictive. If I stop taking it, I initially sleep a lot and feel unmotivated, but am mostly fine after 2-3 days. No headaches or cravings, unlike caffeine. No desire whatsoever to abuse it; was at higher dose at first and felt robotic, terrible. Costly (esp. 2x/day), but insurance covers most and effectiveness worth ever | M | 22 | 2 years 40+20 1X day | 5/9/2013 | 5 | ADHD | Decreases appetite, insomnia | M | 31 | 10 months 50 MG | 5/4/2013 | 5 | add and dystimia | So far I've experienced decrease in appetite, excessive sweating at times. I currently take it once a day. | F | 35 | 1 days 30mg | 4/24/2013 | 3 | ADHD | Works amazing but has bad side effects: -no appetite -extreme weight loss -skin and bones -no muscle gain | M | 13 | 5 days 20 MG | 4/23/2013 | 4 | ADD/ADHD | I absolutely LOVE that I stay focused. Some days when I don't eat breakfast before taking it, I can stay focused ALL day. Other than that if I take it at 9am.. It usually wears off around like 4pm.. Which sucks. I use to take 2 different Mgs a day. 30mg in the morning and 20 around lunch. I quit doing that because of cost issues. Vyvanse side effects for me include: dry lips, can't sleep when on it..after it wears off its still hard to fall asleep (somedays), bad attitude/anger sometimes towards small things, headaches, weight loss definitely ( I went from 138lbs in November 2012 to now April 2013 weighing 114lbs) people say I look sick and need to gain like 10 lbs but I try and I can't unless I don't take the medication for a long period of time. It usually speeds me up in the morning and slows me down later in the day causing me to feel tired but cannot fall asleep for at least an hour. I often crack my knuckles on this also. And bite my lips. It's became a habit in the 4 years since I've started vyvanse. Also, I feel the urge to have a bowel movement every morning around 11 am if I take it at 9. Sometimes it's so bad it makes me cramp up. My finger tips are always cold no matter what. I pick at my face also a lot when I am on this (my mom & boyfriend call it "crackhead tendencies") I also take Zoloft for anxiety, which I think is a great combination with vyvanse. It definitely helps the trembling hands and grinding teeth at times. I usually don't have an appetite | F | 21 | 4 years 30 MG | 4/10/2013 | 3 | ADD,Medication-resistant depression | Sweating, skin rashes, yeast infections, itching, dry eyes, reflux, headaches, anger, irrational thoughts, total disinterest in food, weight loss, immediate rebound weight gain when off the drug, picking at skin, fits of anger that are out of proportion, strong chemical smell/taste of all body fluids, obsessive behavior regarding getting/taking the drug (counting how many pills are left, worrying about getting next prescription in time). | Vyvanse does help to make me more focused/alert/talkative/energetic for about 3 hours, I then feel the effects drop off, tempting me to take another dose. When I do take a second dose, it often causes me to feel agitated and have increased physical symptoms. I've tried several times to come off this drug, but usually only last about a month before I ask to be put back on it. I imagine that I am addicted to it, and will be on it long-term. | F | 50 | 2 years 40mg 1X day | 3/24/2013 |