quitting adhd medication?

I am not familiar with this medicine. Hopefully, some of the supporters will be able to answer your questions. Wishing you well. God bless you.

I was on adder all for 6 years. it definitely caused more problems than it helped. i quit on nov 1st and every fear you have is legit. it sucks. but i have not once regretted it.

I am on adderal currently and it helps me a lot...........what were some of the problems it caused???? If you dont mind me asking I want to know what im dealing with......

I know what your going through. I have been on stimulant medication for 15 years. I couldn't imagine a life without adderall. I had to get professional help in order to quit. I just couldn't stop. Well i could, for a week, a month, a year, then i would go back to it. Its psychologically addicting. I still feel like nail biting sometimes when i know i have to live my life without it.

I know how you feel. I feel like I want to stop taking my Adderall often because I wonder if it is healthy. Sometimes I swear we are over-prescribed by our docs. But I do not want to gain weight or be exhausted and overwhelmed all the time like I was without it. I am not sure what to do either. Sometimes it gives me this strange feeling in my head, almost a ringing noise. It is hard to explain but I almost feel faint and I wonder if it is a side effect.

i was on medication for half my childhood. I grew up with it. Went through puberty with it which was GRAND because it affected my weight significantly because they kept changing my dosages and medication type (the blue pills, the orange beaded capsules, liquid anti depressants, you name it)

i was so convinced growing up that there was something SO wrong with me and watched my meds become my little assistant that after i was done with high school and became thrusted into the adult world without my medication, i didn't know how to handle it all. the focus of the work ethic, the emotions of life, i couldn't handle anything. i also had just ended the anti depressants and i became manic. it started my senior year of high school when i was rebelling against being sick, really tired of everyone on my back for everything and controlling me, and from time to time i wouldn't take my medication, just to trying to see life without it, and i had a huge fit in the middle of school that required medical attention, and the year and a half that followed were a living nightmare of manic depression that eventually put me in the hospital.

needless to say, from my own experience, quitting medication can give you a whole new set of problems. its like there's never a new solution (at least thats how i feel about it) .... this illness never comes with a fair trade.

I experienced delusions and paranoia on adderall. There are lists of amphetamine related psychiatric illnesses that amphetamine medication can cause.

In response to new users-:
This group of amphetamine salts is the only drug I've ever taken that affects my mood. It is a tolerance creating drug so there have been many problems with the "vendors, proprietors, and prescribers/diagnosticians.

Because I had worked in the substance abuse treatment industry, I knew that addiction had nit only found it's way into the everyday language and culture but was/is quite a buzz word and I day this because I have noticed an increase in the number of uneducated "authorities"we have among us.

Except that of course we don't .

Tolerance creating drug-dose must be increased when taken by same exact organism as time progresses. Which means it could go up & up & up forever? I understood basic bio enough to know what speed does to it.

It's been helpful to let the professional know in person right away that a tolerance producing drug does this THEREFORE it's a physical phenomenon, not a mystical, psychic or psychological issue GENERALLY speaking right? So, my beginnings of over using if never told this but instead talked to about possibly being an addict as tbd only option.

I think it's clear and my intention is to be helpful to anyone.

My apologies as the previous post was sent by finger error.

Educate yourself. It's a serious chemical change.
Experiment with the various types. I found huge differences and have heard similar experiences from other's who have a preference for this drug type.
Be really honest with your doctor w/out turning your will and reason over to him.
If records are involved stay informed and w/copy request before you leave session so ho
Tendency to increase should be expected. There are ways to work with it physically I'd be glad to share at some point but I got them by googling and finding a MD who was old enough to know the truth about MEDS these days.
Addiction is not a disease.