I believe that many of the children that died from adderal, to my understanding, had pre-existing heart conditions...but that is just what I have read on other sites.

I start my adderal tomorrow-- I will share how it works for me then!!

I am so crossing my fingers it helps!!

If I take more Adderall than I need (like if I take 20mg that is not extended release) I get a buzz. If I take the right dose, I don't.

Are you taking the adderal extended release or the regular?

Mine is the regular-- but if it doesn't work they are going to try the extended release and possibly strattera.

Mmm ok, I take 30mg of the Adderall XR, but I've never taken more than that since if I took two pills or something it'd be 60mg which scares me haha.

Wow these doses seem kind of high. I only take five milligrams of Rit, and took five milligrams when I was on adderall. Then again this is the same person who gets really tipsy after a glass of wine. :o I probably need way higher doses, but I can't handle the side effects.

I take 5mg of Adderal.

So I started it today and all is well....a little better with patience, irritability, etc. But my short term memory is even worse I think!! I went to let some guy into the basement at my work-- well on my way to my office to get the keys I started to think about something else and by the time I got my purse opened I forgot what I was looking for!! It is acutally kind of funny-- but scary too!! Oh yea-- I eventually remembered what I was doing!

Has anyone ever had their short term memory get worse after starting the meds? If so, did it eventually improve?



Edited because I thought I took 10mgs but I take 5mgs....nice attention to detail!!! I am already noticing a small difference-- but I can tell it will take a higher dosage to make a more noticeable difference. I am just glad that the side effects are not too bad-- having trouble sleeping is my only one and they say that tends to go away after time. I tend to have bad reactions to most medications I have taken in the past-- so this is a good thing!

I have real bad short term memory (but like I said, I don't take meds for my ADD)
Anyway, I go to the neurologist for migraines, and she put me on meds that make my short term memory WAY worse! LOL I do the same thing, I'll end up just standing somewhere wondering why I am there. It is like I just completely zone out.

I've never had any memory problems and I haven't noticed the Adderall having any effect on memory at all.

Yesterday I got home and organized my wallet. It was crazy. I'm finding that now, rather than sitting around complaining about how I should be doing something and then worrying about the 900 things I should be doing that I'm not doing, I just do the stuff I need to do. It's really amazing. I'm much more calm and rational, I think.

I organized my purse today! haha

Thank you so much to some of you for making me feel so much better about this-- I really had felt alone about all of this because none of my friends and no one in my family has ADHD.

Also DeltaEtaKP, I think it would be hilarious if we ever hung out-- half the time we would be sitting there trying to remember why we were there!! haha

lol... that would be IF we could remember that we were supposed to hang out... I would probably end up sitting in my car like... I know I am supposed to be here... but I don't remember why.. :)
I tend to use the note method--At the beginning of the week, I put post-its all over my room and I write stuff down on the different days for when I have to do stuff. If not, I miss everything and I have this feeling, like, "Now, I know I'm supposed to be doing something, oh well!"

Hey Jerks, Speed Kills!
 

I love strattera

don't medicate anything that is additive, i.e. speed.

When I decided to stop taking my medication...coming down from speed is hard, don't make her take it.

Coping is the best method...sometimes. It depends what you're doing. I don't take straterra every day, which is why I love it. You don't build up a tollerance and you can stop without thinking you're going to die.

Post-It notes are my best friend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, none of you girls have "the guys form" of ADD, like me?

You mean with hyperactivity annnnd the attention problems?? That is what I have...

Again, Carnation, we have something in common. Our nine-year-old adopted Asian girl was diagnosed this year at the beginning of third grade, at my insistence, by our pediatrician. (At the end of second grade, she was beginning to take forever to get her work finished, even though she understood what she was doing, and was not causing disturbances in class. She is also very bright. She was of the quiet, took forever to do her work type of ADD, which usually takes longer to recognize.) Her third grade teacher agreed that I was on target to do so, and did her part in filling out her side of the paperwork. Our pediatrician put her on 10 mg. of Adderall. The difference in her work, within a week. was absolutely amazing. She finished up the year with A's in every subject for the year, and received more honor certificates than anyone else in her class. Our doctor said that if a child truly needs that chemical imput, the results will be quick and amazing, and so it was. She does not take it on weekends, nor during the summer, but we will start her on it again a week before school starts. She has had no side affects. I am SO glad that I insisted we do something about her before it continued for a long time.

Let me just add, too, that my husband is a physician, so he's long heard of all the hype surrounding Ritalyn and Adderall, as well as everything else under the sun, and he was totally supportive of her pediatrician prescribing Adderall. He says that it is always the bad PR that you hear the most about concerning any meds or treatment, and that the public is usually unaware of the statistics involved, which make a huge difference in the actual reality of a situation.

ADPiAkron, here's hoping you'll receive the same wonderful help that my daughter received!!