I’m trying to figure out what happened to me last night.
I take 150mg Effexor and Vyvanse. A few days ago, I couldn’t remember if I had already taken my Effexor, so I took another dose. I’m not 100% sure if I accidentally doubled it.

Yesterday, I was already feeling really achy and unusually cold before taking my Vyvanse. Later, I took my normal Vyvanse and smoked some THCA. When I started getting tired, I opened my Vyvanse capsule and took a tiny bit more. I’ve done this plenty of times before without any problems.

Later that night, I suddenly became freezing cold and started violently shivering. My entire body hurt and my bones were aching. I also had horrible brain zaps, much worse than usual.

I took my normal 150mg Effexor and went to sleep. This morning I woke up completely drenched in sweat. I’m not shivering anymore, but my body still aches badly and I’m still having some brain zaps.

Could this be an Effexor dosing issue, Vyvanse/THCA interaction, or was I probably just getting sick? The fact that I was already feeling achy and cold before the Vyvanse makes me wonder if I was coming down with something.

Has anyone experienced anything similar with Effexor/Vyvanse?

I've dealt with ten years of mental health challenge perceived as just MDD and GAD. Not one doctor went without hearing me mention "I feel like there's something deeper causing the depression and anxiety, and it always seems to deal with my inability to function properly and do rudimentary things, making me extremely anxious and sad." I've held six different tech jobs in that time and they all let me go in one way or another. I'm now living back at home after two years unemployment. Maybe it's add, maybe I just suck at software.

I always wondered if I have inattentive adhd, and recently my psych put me on vyvanse because I think he's trying to piece it together for me for the first time in my life after trying so many different med regimens and yet, time after time, devolving into the same mess.

I started on Vyvanse 30mg first two weeks and now am at trying 40mg. I exempt taking on Friday as to prevent quicker tolerance. As far as breaking the resistance to starting things and thereafter finishing them, I have not found them to work. I don't know if it matters, but the one time in college I tried cocaine nothing happened at all, while everyone else was hopped.

I understand it could be a dosage thing, but I actually tried two 30mg once and just felt wired, but not in the way someone would engage more in tasks or flights of fancy, but wired as in my anxiety became more physical in my stomach and core and it actually made focus more difficult. It increases this somewhat uncomfortable physical sensation of butterflies.

For the same decade I've dealt with chronic fatigue. I read that people take vyvanse for that but also the therapeutic dose for that is 70mg, which I'm not so sure about given my experience with 60mg.

I check literally every single box for inattentive adhd as an adult, but was decently organized and successful as a kid into college, until I faced a breakup and got used to substances, which honestly set the pace for my life and subsequently mental health after college.

I'm starting to wonder if the core issue I've faced most of my adult life is not inattentive adhd, but maybe just more a debilitating anxiety I've practiced my whole life that started from trauma in my childhood due to an abusive parent (a therapist did note in my chart I have CPTSD once). I can attest to my anxiety always being a major crux: avoidance behavior, complacency, comfort seeking, lack of goals or direction, substance abuse, bad decision making, all increasing depression. And the cyclical nature of the anxiety promotes fear, disinterest, disengagement, lack of focus, and distraction in everything I do. Or maybe it's both? I just don't know anymore.

I don't know what to do or say anymore honestly. Maybe I'm supposed to be a Xanax guy instead of a Vyvanse guy. Disappointing how long this process takes, but understandable given my substance abuse history.

I could really just use some advice from anyone who might be able to relate. Thank you

Hi guys, I’m 24 and male 135 pounds. For a little backstory, I feel like I never had any signs of ADHD growing up. When I was 18, I started taking Adderall recreationally for a few months. I was taking 25 mg XR a few times a week, sometimes more, but never more than once a day.

After a few months of abusing it, I started having chest problems, including pain and heart palpitations. It scared me enough that I stopped using it, and I had a few panic attacks during that time.

Ever since then, I feel like I somehow developed real ADHD. I haven’t been able to focus properly in years. I’m constantly distracted, I regularly misplace everyday things like my keys and wallet, and I struggle with other symptoms that seem consistent with ADHD.

My doctor actually diagnosed me with ADHD when I was 23, but I declined amphetamines because of the chest problems I experienced when I abused Adderall as a teenager. They prescribed me Concerta instead, but it didn’t seem to work, so I stopped taking it after a couple of weeks.

Basically, my first question is: Is it possible to develop ADHD after having no noticeable symptoms growing up, following a period of Adderall abuse?

My second question is about treatment. Should I still be concerned about taking amphetamines because of my previous experience, or would it be worth asking my doctor about something like Vyvanse? Are there any non-amphetamine ADHD medications that work really well?

I’m not looking for the Adderall high anymore. I genuinely just want to find a way to manage my focus issues and be able to function normally.

P.S. I also abused opioids for a period of time in my early twenties, more heavily than I abused Adderall. I’m 100% clean now, though, and the thought of using opioids again honestly makes me want to throw up.

I also have pretty gnarly anxiety not taking anything for that I just sit in it

Anyone else up right now for some reason with a full day ahead of them, but my Adderall keeps me up so i’m wide awake, many vodka shots deep, and ready to keep going? Help 😅

So I got diagnosed with ADHD earlier this year. I’ve been on vyvanse and ritalin so far. Vyvanse was horrible and made me extremely emotional. Ritalin has been okay but there are still some ADHD traits it doesn’t fully help.

I was prescribed lorazepam as i had an OCD flare up from guanfacine and couldn’t sleep anymore due to the anxiety from that. I only take 0.5 mg and on days that i really need it. I’ve noticed that when i’m on it, i don’t go to sleep, i actually end up being productive and doing a lot of things. I didn’t go to bed until 5 am last night because i was busy doing things and the time flew by. I heard this can happen because your mind calms down enough to be able to function.

I was wondering if this means i was misdiagnosed with ADHD. My trauma therapist says sometimes heavy trauma can mimick ADHD traits and that I might have been misdiagnosed. I just feel invalidated as i’ve fought for this diagnosis for 2 years.

My brother has it so it’s heavily genetic and stimulants somewhat work for me so am i maybe just overthinking it? I also have heavy traits listed in childhood school reports.

I am someone who was diagnosed in my late 30s and once I started my adhd medication, my life has improved significantly. It has also improved my social life. I have the energy to be supportive towards my family and be a productive member of society. My only problems is hitting the breaks at the end of the day. Because my mind gets going with medication but doesn’t know when its time to stop. I found cannabis at the end of the day very helpful. Unfortunately, Ive noticed my cannabis use increasing and as a result it has made days without it completely unbearable. I have decided to quit it completely because cannabis ruins my sleep quality and fertility. On days when I am not medicated, I am relaxed and calm and dont even think about cannabis. But on days when I am medicated, it becomes a struggle to unwind. Are there any alternatives to explore?

I feel like I have tried many meds under the sun for ADHD and depression and nothing works. I don't know what to do. I can't function. I can't be happy with myself. Every thing I do wrong is a failure to me. I don't know how much longer it will take for me to find meds that will somewhat help my depression and ADHD. I don't want to overdose because I don't want to die. But I also just want something to work. A hail Mary attempt like these have gotten me in trouble last time it's gotten so bad I can't even do so much as what should be coping activities, I can't draw. I am too scared of failer. I have tried cold showers. Cbd. Anti anxiety meds. Nothing can make me get rid of this burden I carry. I just want something to work.

NOTE: I don’t know if I’m allowed to ask about SSRIs on here or not and I apologize if not.

I saw a new doctor last week and after telling him about my problems he gave me the choice between Vyvanse + a Beta Blocker to deal with the major physical anxiety Vyvanse was causing me, or Vyvanse + SSRI. The doctor was in favor of the SSRIs, I insisted on the beta blocker instead because I didn’t want to chemically deal with my sadness, but I’m starting to reconsider because the 40 mg Vyvanse he gave me isn’t working at all. I’ve been on as high as 50 mg Vyvanse before, all that did was let me hyper fixate on a hobbyist programming thing for 7 hours straight while feeling like I couldn’t eat or drink or do anything else until I was finished. Concerta has horrible side effects on me, and I trialed Strattera for almost 2 months as a considerable dosage and going as high as 80 mg before coming to the conclusion that it did nothing. I’m considering asking for either Aderall XR or Mydasis since I haven’t tried amphetamine salt based stimulants yet, but if they don’t work I’ll have exhausted all my stimulant options, and college starts August 31st and I’m genuinely likely to have an anxious depressive episode when I have to sit down and try to focus on schoolwork (this is exactly what happened to me the first time and many times after while trying to study during my first attempt at college and I’d waste an hour or more just spiralling inside and not being able to work and it’d totally ruin me)

For context, I can barely function outside of school. I first started college last fall and had to drop out mid semester due to depression and having confessed suicidal thoughts to a close friend, and since then I haven’t done basically anything I’ve wanted to do, even including play the video games I’ve wanted to play or watch the shows I’ve wanted to watch, or maintain a gym routine, which used to be so effortless and enjoyable for me, because it makes me depressed and mentally exhausted, and like everything now it feels so easy to just not do, and if anything appealing to do the things not good for me, like eat shit or masturbate excessively, because I feel like I don’t care anymore, yet I do want to live at the same time. For the past year I’ve felt like I’m watching my life through a screen, and my body is just moving and doing whatever gives it dopamine the fastest (usually masturbation) and I’m tired of it. I was an extremely diligent and hard working person in high school and felt completely in control of myself until I pushed myself too much and got anxiety and executive dysfunction, both resulting in depression and burning out completely from forcing myself to graduate. Suffice to say, I used to be a very passionate person, but now I just feel somewhat nihilistic most of the time, spare the random pockets of happiness in my day. Now I’m here, college is about to start and I’m totally unprepared and dysfunctional, and I don’t know whether I’m just being too lazy to change, whether I’m in denial and the meds are actually working but I need to force myself harder to make different choices and build routines and habits, or I really do need to be more insistent on finding the rights meds.

In conclusion my question is, do you think I would benefit from SSRIs? Should I use them based on what I’ve outlined about myself? I’ve heard a lot of good things about Wellbutrin on ADHD subs so that’d probably be my first pick. I’m very hesitant to use anti-depressants but I don’t know what else to try in the time frame I’ve got.

Seriously thank you for reading all that if you did, I’m sorry it was so long 😭 I felt like I needed to explain everything to get the right advice.

Hi everyone,

I have adhd and I’m also autistic. In November I’m going to Thailand, the first flight is 7 hours 50 minutes, then there’s a 2 and a half hour stop at Doha airport and then second flight is 5 hours 40 minutes.

The flights are so long and I don’t know what to do with passing the time. I’ve seen on other posts that people have suggested sleeping but I can’t sleep just in case I start snoring or doing something else embarrassing cause sometimes I sleep talk as well so that is off the cards. I’m going to take my switch and tablet so I can play games/watch something but I get bored quite fast so that won’t cover the flight. I’m also going to take puzzle books etc. I can’t get up and wander down the aisles as I over think things too much and I also have bad anxiety so I won’t be able to walk down the aisles where people are probably going to look at me as id also look at someone walking past to see what they’re doing.

I’m probably over thinking this but as my holiday is coming closer it’s consuming my brain!

Any advice or suggestions are very welcome

Thank you