Withdrawal From Vyvanse (Page 11)
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My son had a terrible experience on wyvance. He has phyciatic systems to include halluciations. The doctor took him off the drup cold turkey and Ihe seems to be having withdrawal systems? Is that normal?

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Okay. Thank you. Your posts have really helped me see the light and to face the truth of my addictions. I will listen to the voice of reason and accept the healing power of God as you have done by His remarkable grace and love. He is the Great Physician.

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Also, if you are anyone else on here who is recovering from vyvanse or other drugs nd need spiritual help in learning to rely on God to get you through this please check out my Facebook page. Bennie Killingsworth Jr.
In Longview Texas. It should be easy to find. I post all my stories of overcoming life controlling problems through Christ and also inspirational quotes and scriptures. Send me s friend request and a message letting me know your problrm so i can pray for you, I will always be there to help y'all! Remember we are all in this together when we seek God for our strength!

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Hey, do not give up, you can and will beat this! If you have faith in him, he will not let you down. You say you want to feel Gods peace again, then you have to rely on him to beat this and not other drugs. I have been delivered from vyvanse addiction, meth addiction, adder all addiction, opiate addiction, marijuana addiction, and even tobacco addiction through the healing power of our Lord Jesus Christ. He is the only one who can give you the strength you need to beat strongholds over your life. Go back and read all my posts over the past year on here and you can see just how bad it had gotten. As I write you now I am free from all that junk! I am free to run, I am free to dance! You can and will be too, just get your strength from him and have patience and endure. This is only a bump in the road my friend, and you are gonna be able to get your life back for sure, it just takes time. First you must remember that you can do all things through Christ who strengthens you. with that in your mind you have already won half the battle. Second Remember that God will never put more on our shoulders than you can handle, and he has made you strong enough to beat this or you would not be here in the first place. Third remember that after you have suffered, he will restore your strength so you can perform his will. That will is to help others overcome thus addiction just as you did, Like I am helping you now. As a Christian you should know that all 3 of these steps are scriptures from the bible and through scriptures is how we renew our minds to take on these problems and come out victorious. If you need me I am here, he strengthens me more each day, and I believe that through him I can conquer all things! I went through my addictions to be a helping hand to others in the same situations, so you have a friend! Be strong and Do not give up!

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Vyvanse, the miracle pill. Immediately the world takes on a rosy glow, and there's nothing you can't accomplish. You love everyone, and everyone loves you. For a while. Sad to say, my physician suggested that I, as a middle aged female had classic symptoms of ADD (without hyperactivity). She had discovered the "miracle drug" herself and felt that it was helping her to focus and avoid impulsive behavior. She prescribed it for me, beginning at a low dose as recommended and gradually increasing the dosage according to the pharmaceutical recommendations. Well, as I said, I felt pretty darn great and had all the energy in the world....but that was a little over a year ago. I have topped off at 70 mg/day. Since last year, I have lost my job, had trouble getting another one, become an absolute fearful hermit of a person. I avoid people, have lost interest in the things I used to enjoy. I have joint and muscle pains. I have terrible anxiety and overwhelming sense of hopelessness. As a Christian, I look forward, almost too much so, to death and the eternal peace of God's presence. I no longer have the energy or motivation to exercise regularly as I've done for years, though I know it would help my mood immensely. I have increased my use of hydrocodone and alprazolam (xanax) due to the headaches, muscle/joint pain and anxiety issues. I, like many of the blog participants am afraid to face withdrawal, as I am going to try to start a new job next week. I went back to talk to my doctor about adding buproprion (Wellbutrin) to help me wean off the V. She gave me a choice: Vyvanse or buproprion, but not both..It may shock some to hear that I am a healthcare provider. I have prescribed vyvanse to a couple of my own (adult) patients in the past. Never again. It's just an amphetamine....no place to go but spiraling downward, eventually. Medications affect individual persons differently. Some people can stop cold turkey with minimal side effects, but it's never a good idea to stop a medication suddenly unless your reaction to it is severe: anaphylaxis, etc. I just want to personally thank each of you who has had the courage and honesty to tell your story. I actually have had thoughts of leaving this life, and I have 5 adult children, a wonderful loving husband, and extended family who I know would be devasted. I also have faith in God, who led me, this day to read this blog; something I never do. I now know that these disturbing emotions, thoughts and feelings are a direct result of this medication. I am going to do the gradual withdrawal, as I have tried cold turkey a few months ago, and felt like I'd been hit by a Mack truck. Now I know there are other brave and honest souls are out there who have faced the same challenges and succeeded. With God's help, so will I.

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I've been taking vyvanse for a year and 3 days ago decided to not refill my rx. Today is my first day without it. I took adderall for 2 years prior to my start on vyvanse. Right now I feel "ok" but I'm fearing withdrawals may set in. When I began vyvanse the transition from adderall to this drug was fabulous, no side effects. Over time I have became extremely aggitated and short fused. My hair has receeded and my speech which has never been a problem is now a huge issue. At times I will struggle to complete a sentence. I'm a college grad, so this makes it extremely hard to communicate and essentially contributes to my feeling of aggitation. I've found myself finding happiness in solace and when you've fought depression all your life it makes it a perfect recipe for disaster. I should have never started vyvance. My advice for anyone who is deciding to take it is this, the beginning will give you a delusional mind set that this drug works. Over time it takes your life away from you and you are left with nothing but remorse.

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When I take Vyvanse, I get very aggitated from different sounds I hear. If someone is chewing gum or tapping a pencil and I am trying to concentrate, I get annoyed and have to ask them to stop. Also, I normally have a shorter temper when on Vyvanse, but I can control it very easily. One weird side effect I get is shrinkage from walking up stairs or any slight excercise. Some of my friends get this too, but girls do not have to worry about it. One other negative effect I got, was the second day I took Vyvanse. While running sprints for track after school, my arms went completely numb. We then had to lift afterwards and I was much weaker than normal. This was probably due to not eating or drinking enough because the pill made me not hungry.

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A couple of months ago, I was taking Vyvanse everyday in the morning, and Adderall instanst release at night for homework. I have been on increasing amounts of Vyvanse to help focus but after about a month and a half, I decided to stop taking them so that I would not be dependent on the drug. The first couple of days, I had various pains in different places and not much energy. After about a week, all the withdrawal symptoms were gone. I can now take Vyvanse when I need to, for days when I have like a test or something in school, and I have no withdrawals after not taking them the next day.

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Thanks for your response Berniek and info on the drug. I do not want my son to be addicted to medicine starting young in life! It's never good at any age but more disturbing when kids are young for sure...probably the source of a lot of conflicting opinions about medicating for ADHD. Good for you for relying on your faith and God "I can do all things thru Christ who strengthens me!" That's right! This site has been so good for me to hear different experiences from people at different ages. It has confirmed some of what I have been seeing in my son and now I will need to make a decision soon in terms of long term. I have noticed one thing is when I keep him active at night (evening) before bed, his withdrawal effects are not as bad because he is using so much energy physically and getting it out! But life doesn't allow to be outside hitting balls every evening...well all this is quite a learning experience! Best of luck to you and thank you for all your feedback!

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Hi Benniek, I definitely think you are on the right track about these meds. I'm 19 and started vyvanse 2 years ago (50 mg) and they seemed to work really well. I stayed focus and managed to sleep 8 hours a night. About 8 months ago, I started taking them everyday. Biggest mistake of my life. I lost weight, felt sleepy, lost focus, and started avoiding friends and everyday tasks. I left college to attend Mayoclinic and let me tell you... NONE of the doctors here are a fan of this drug. My psychiatrist at one of the best health clinics in the US confirmed: Vyvanse is addictive and does in fact cause withdrawal symptoms. So for everyone who thinks that's not true, you are mistaken. These drugs are not given to us for our best interest. Just strictly for profit. So, do not be fooled into thinking your doctor cares about your ADD when they keep you on it after you are having side effects. I've seen the best physicians and they were extremely disturbed with the carelessness of my former family doctors giving me Vyvanse and Xanax with no long term plan. Im currently getting off Vyvanse and it's been very hard. I sleep at least 12 hours a day. I'm slowly getting the bubbly hyper me back, but it's so much nicer than being a zombie. Good luck to everyone trying to get off and good luck to everyone who "loves" this drug. I've been in your position and trust me, it only gets worse.

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Hey Laura, you are welcome, glad the info helped. No, I have not tried any herbal meds. My goal is to be medication free and rely on God to help me with my problems. So far so good! ! It's good that the medication is helping your son in school. Some of the research I have done on ADHD meds shows that the meds are not to be used long term. They are actually supposed to Fix the problem to where the focus stays the same even when taken off the med. Mayb you could discuss this with your doc and see what he says. Possibly your son could be taken off the med after a positive daytime attention pattern has developed to see if the pattern still continues positively, while the anger and hostility should be gone. What I do know is the longer a person stays on ADHD meds, the harder it will be to function without them later in life.

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Thank you for your response and sharing specifically what you went through...wow! SOunds like it was VERY addictive for you and became a huge pb! My son is only 7 so I am thinking ahead of next few school years...if he is on this for the next 10 years things could get really really bad :( I am meeting with his psychologist tonight and will share with him how he has been acting these past two weeks (the higher dose is definitely not making things any better at the end of the day...I don't know what the pediatrician was thinking!) I talked to his school teacher today and she was VERY happy with my son at school...so he is doing great on it during the day but becomes a little monster at night!! This is pretty disturbing to me...Thank you for sharing your experience. THis is all very helpful to me. There are some natural herbal medicine out there that claim to help with ADHD. IT may be something I might be willing to try after this...have you tried any? One of them is Listol I think if my memory is correct (sorta omeopathic med). Some parents reported good results. Thanks again and take care!

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Oh, and as for the withdrawal feelings, it would start every day sometime after lunch. Initially it would start as a severe headache and body ache along with uncontainable anger and aggression. When the drug wore off my thoughts turned sometimes suicidal and I wanted to fight anyone who looked at me or talked to me. My focus was only on negatives and it would get worse every day. In the end the drug would only work for a few short hours before all of this would start, and I would not be better until the next morning when I took the drug again, and then only for a few hours.

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Hey Laura, I am 35 now. I took vyvanse for almost 2 years. For the first few days I took it, everything was great. After about a week it just started to destroy my life. Doctor kept raising the dose and complications would get worse. I began to lash out at my friends and family and lost all ambition to do anything. My weight dropped around 40 lbs and I slept a coupe hrs a night. After a few months I became addicted to it and could not function without it. Sometimes I would not leave the bed for several days if I did not take it. Although I am sure this is not normal for most patients, I do think many people experience bad side effects but write them off because of better focus etc. The main problem with this is that we do not actually know what the long term effects can be from using this drug. What I have noticed is the ones who benefit from this drug do not seem to have any bad side effects at all, or they are very minor and do not out weigh the positives. From what you have posted about your son, that does not sound good. I am not a Dr., so i can not tell you if you should take him off. I would say that by reading about the effects your son is having, and many of the other posts about negative effects, it does not seem as though it is the right drug if it's making him react in that way. Hope this helps!

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I have only my experience as an adult who was on topomax for migraines and told there would be no withdraw. I was frantically riddled with anxiety two days after stopping it and almost reached a point of no return. I am a doctoral student, special ed. Teacher and mother of three. My middle has adhd. My brother in law a renound child psychologist. I went thru Hell. After therapy which seemed to be the most helpful, and total fear of ever taking Meds again, I was given vyvanse for adult adhd. I waited to take it, and ironically my son was prescribed it. I waited to give it to him, and both my husband and I took it to see what it was like. My husband is now on it for four months, and doing fabulous . I had to stop after five days. It made me speed and my heart raced , I also couldn't sleep, but was not anxious. My son finally wound up taking it...but we were warned, try it for a few days, see how it affects him. It made him chew his nails and pencils and brought out an ocd type of actions. He was not himself for a week or so. Everyone is different, topomax is also a psych. Med, and when I started therapy, they told me some drugs can change your chemical make up. Maybe this has happened. Sounds bizarre, but try Accupuncture and fish oil, neither are harmful and they help promote a feeling of serenity. Look into therapy and check outpatient programs....they can correct the behavior....it will take time, but its safe. Be careful of the internet, some people really are mentally unstable, far worse than anxiety or adhd, their views are not reliable: even though it may be their perception. I am seeking the blood pressure patch for my son, its safe and been around a while. I am also changing some of my parenting techniques. For me, I scared the crappy out of myself reading too much info, trying to find something for the migraines and anxiety. I was totally normal before that topomax, the mind and medicine is very tricky. Keep us posted and best wishes, hang in there, this will pass.

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Thanks for your input and feedback...I sure appreciate that. I just discovered this site today and it has been enlightening for me to read these posts and get a couple of responses to my concerns about my son. Out of curiosity, how old are you or were you when you took the drug? I am wondering if these withdraway symptoms are the same for young kids as older kids or adults...it sounds like it from what I am reading. How did it make you feel if you don't mind me asking? Thank you so much for sharing! I want to do what's best for my son and don't want him hooked to something that is going to make him an aggressive and hostile person around people he loves. And I don't want him to feel depressed either...as much as during the day it may help, I have to weigh all the factors. Thank you for your help! Would you recommend he gets off of it? He is in his second week of the higher dose (30 mg) and so far yes the withdrawal effects seem worse than when he first started on it...

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Hey Laura , the withdrawals at the end of the day do not go away as long as the drug is taken. The drug starts to loose peak effectiveness each day and that is when they start. For me, the withdrawal feelings would get worse each week and they would start earlier and earlier each day until I finally stopped taking it. My doses where from 50mg up to 2 70mg a day. You can read my previous posts from last year on here and read how bad the drug was for me. I am fine now and have been off it science July! Praise the Lord!!

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Hello, In response to "Am I an adult?" I am the mother here reporting on my 7-year-old son who has been on Vyvance for last two months and who is having I think now very bad withdrawal at the end of the day (hostility, aggressivity, yelling/screaming, throwing things and hurting me and his sister physically on purpose and last night he threatened to kill me!) This is a bit too much for me and seems to be escalating to a dangerous zone for me...the pediatrician just increased the dose two weeks ago after I had already reported hostility and anger issues. He is followed also by a psychologist who disagreed with increasing the dose but I wanted to give it a try to see what would happen...well the psych. is right...the withdrawal symptoms are worse. I will monitor next few days and will report to pediatrician again. This is no fun and not sure if benefits during the day outweigh negative side effects at the end of the day. Any input?

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are you an adult- because children may have a different response. Also everyone is affected differently. Some may withdraw and others may not!

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Thanks for your reply...I sure appreciate it. A friend of mine just showed me this website and it's nice to have feedback from others who have been there before me. Thanks for your feedback and sharing about your son...it seems to me my son's anger and aggression is just getting worse as time goes on (and it's only his second month of being on Vyvance). I didn't think it would stay in his system over time and there was an addictive factor because the pediatrician didn't seem to indicate it but after reading several posts it does sound like it is addictive and those side effects will just get worse over time...thank you for your feedback again!

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I would take him off the meds this happened with my son and its been over a month and half and he was on 30 MG for 3 months straight and before that he was on adderoll which was better than the vyvanse but now my son still gets upset about things and here before the dr put him on these meds he was a happy little boy who never cried nothing I am right now in the process of getting my son tested for learning disabilities to get him an IEP which I cross my fingers it happens quick but I think with all these meds people are putting into their children s bodies you don't know what long term effect it can do to our kids and what I saw in the 3 months of him taking this medicine I didn't like it at all he would hit his older brothers for no reason and get mad at nothing i wish you the best on your choice and keep us posted thanks alot

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