16 year old DD starts vyvanse Tomorrow

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Beware of the Hypersexuality. This caused so much heartache in our family. My daughter was 15 when she started. We didn't realize it was the problem for a couple years. Or part of the problem, anyway.

No someone’s was abusing your kid.

Do you not realize that not only is hyper sexuality a side effect in some stimulants, but it is apparent in many non-medicated ADHD and autistic teens. It's a very hush hush thing, but go do a little research before claiming to some stranger that their teen was abused as a kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's fantastic for me. I tried a plethora of ADD drugs beforehand.

Keep in mind that unless she is GENUINELY add DO NOT have her take it.

Vyvanse is a powerful drug and I find that once I took it for a while I could just not function the same without it. I know they say it's non addictive and all that but- from my personal experience and those of my friends- I feel like a brainless zombie now when I dont take it.

So if I didnt have severe ADHD and really needed it just to function, I never would have started.

Like I said, it's a powerful drugs. It makes your heart race. It's akin to drinking ten energy drinks at once but without as much of the jitters.

I have a friend who did meth and he said vyvanse feels the exact, EXACT same. And it is an amphetamine.

So like I said, while I am happy with my vyvanse because I need it, I would never take it if I didnt truly depend on it.

I have tried to go off it several times over concerns about it making my heart racing and other things and it's really hard for me to quit now because of how dependent I am.

So if your child is ADD, GENUINELY, I say go for it. If she's doing it just for a performance boost, then I would say there's no way in hell it's worth the side effects.

A person isn't "add". People have adhd. My kid with combined adhd doesn't experience what you are describing. Kid goes off of it on weekends and other times and doesn't experience what you are describing. I do notice that if kid has been off of it for a while, kid seems grim for a week when they start.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Think twice! The list of "no" for this drug include the risk heart problems and severe allergic reactions, according to the company's own page: http://www.drugs.com/vyvanse.html

Side effect include, among others: uncontrolled outbursts, tics, difficulty breathing and swallowing, trouble concentrating, skin lesions, tightness in the chest, etc. (http://www.drugs.com/sfx/vyvanse-side-effects.html)

My kid had some of these symptoms with a different adhd medication including hallucinations at night. Vyvanse never caused any of these and they've taken it for years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My daughter has been taking it for 4 years...the one issue she has is if she misses a dose she gets a nose bleed daily for about a week. Other than that no issues. Our youngest also takes it and it makes her hands shaky and she has lost a considerable amount of weight. Both are teens

Nose bleeds? I'd never heard of that.