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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]

Agree with PP and PP's advice -- Vyvanse is totally addictive;  seemingly in a way that Ritalin and Adderall aren't.

I too have a close adult friend and two adult relatives who are totally dependent on these pills.  Started taking them later in life, because of course Vyvanse didn't exist 20-30 years ago when they were kids.

They candidly will tell you they can't function anymore when they don't take their pills.  This is the disturbing part, if you think about it:  prior to getting that first script for Vyvanse, all three WERE able to function, get out of bed, go to college, have kids, go to a job, perform their job.   Maybe not optimally, and not as well as a person without ADHD, but they DID function.

Now, all three are a complete zombie, dragging mess if they run out of their Vyvanse script or forget to take the pill in the morning.

That kind of dependence on a performance pill gives me great pause.   I'd look for a different pharmaceutical
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That's exactly how I feel.  When I say a zombie, i mean literally cannot get out of bed sometimes, as you described.

For example, I used to work in an office job, and the lack of sleep from vyvanse (another side effect) became too much, so I tried to go off it.

My bosses started asking around the office to my friends, asking if I were on drugs (!) at work, because I was dragging so much.

I think they thought I was taking some kind of downer, like a benzo, or maybe just weed?  But they seemed to think it was pretty serious, and brought it up to me.

So... that's the difference.  That never happened when I was on concerta for years, or adderal.  Although concerta had other bad effects, like I would feel very inhibited and antisocial when on it.  So, it's a trade off really.

But if I could do it again, i dont think i would go on it, because my ability to function without it has gone down so much.

Then again, I have resigned myself that I will probably use it for life now and have finally reconciled with that. I am severely ADHD, like off the charts, so while it's a bummer, i just kind of reason that that's the price I pay for having this particular affliction.

But like I said, if it wasnt necessary for me at this point, if my ADHD weren't quite severe, then I wouldn't be on it. [/quote]

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