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Originally Posted by RU OX Alum
Not everyone has the choice to start though. The substance I was addicted to was forced upon me. I was 8. I had no choice, not really.
I chose to stop taking adderal in April 2005. It damn near killed me, and I still don't think I'm all the way better.
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True. That's why I said "often." (It's also a good example of how hard if not impossible it is for any of us to ignore our personal experiences in conversations such as this.)
I'm really sorry you had such a time with Adderal. We took our 8-year-old off it after 3 months. We were seeing really disturbing side effects. By the time we were calling the doctor about it, he was begging us not to make him take it anymore. When we told him we had talked with his doctor and that she agreed with us that he should stop taking it immediately, he thanked us. "I haven't felt good since my birthday," he told us. (He had started taking it a week or two before his birthday.) Pretty nerve-wracking.[/sidetrack]