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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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. [/quote]

This person does not have ADHD. Either they've been mistakenly prescribed the medication or they're one of those anti-medication anti-vaccination nits.

Vyvance didn't work for my child but Concerta does and Adderral works for me. Her initial does will be small enough that any side effects will be minimal.[/quote]

If by "this person" you meant me, the PP, then I most certainly DO have it.  I actually got prescribed at 11, so unless all my doctors have been wrong for the past 20 years, I HAVE IT.

Anyway, I would think that would be obvious by how scattered the thoughts were in my original post, lol. [/quote]

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