Withdrawal From Vyvanse (Page 5) (Top voted first)

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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That quack may save your life..being only 12, your parents obviously have your best interest at heart. You may think you need it now..long term may prove otherwise..mention alternative treatment to your parents and alter your diet..sometimes that is all that is needed.. good luck to you and remember..all that glitters is not gold:)

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i started on vyvanse 40mg about a year ago because i was exhausted and depressed. i have chronic pain and was experiencing chronic fatigue. eventually 40 didnt work and i upped the dose to 30 in the morning and 30 in the evening.

my dr, who ive had for years said there would be no withdrawal.

i stopped eating and became anti-social. i also stopped taking my vitamins because vyvannse was giving me all the energy i needed. and as an end result, i became mal-nourished and more in need of vyvannse.

the first time i quit taking it was on vacation. which i ended up sleeping through most of it. when i was awake, i was in that same fog i heard others mention.

when i got home i had to get back on it because i couldnt function. but i went back to only half the dose. i am taking 30 mg in the morning now. but it has been tough. i am tired a lot. need naps.

like others, i also became withdrawn. (oh and fyi, it doesnt start out that way) when i first had it, i couldnt stop myself from talking. i was super social. then later developed very little interest in people or talking. also became irritable, sensitive. pms has been worse too.

i have been praying a lot. also forced myself to back involved with life, socializing etc.

i want to go down to 15mg. im am scared. but i am on fish oil, liquid iron & b complex. i have to stay on myself to keep up with the vitamins. its easy to slack and just take a v. also want to pick up some enzymes.

i can barely take care of myself not to mention my home, pets, family or husband.

they try to say it must be something else, not the vyvannse withdrawal doing this. but i can tell the difference because ive been depressed and have experienced chronic fatigue. and from my experience this is hardcore withdrawal.

i hope i can get off of this too. good luck to others out there.

most of my friends and family that are on vyvanse, couldnt imagine life w/o it. its sad cause it does change you. not for the better.

ps be warned, there are pharmaceutical reps out there that want you and the doctors to believe there is nothing wrong with vyvannse. if so, let them take it and see.

i have nothing to gain from telling you that it hurt me, they have everything to loose.

best of luck,
me

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I have had to go without my 50mg per day on Vyvanse due to my RX being stolen twice from my home! that right there is a red flag. I did not know it was a drug people would "seek". I had all of the symptoms described to a tee that everyone else had. I could fall asleep sitting straight up. NO motivation, depressed feeling and was eating like i could not get enough food. All I wanted to do was sleep, stare at the TV, eat, and every little thing aggitated me. I am now scared that I have started my body on something that it has to have to function. I have a previous opiate addiction and it almost killed me getting over it. I swore i would never be dependant on anything again. I feel cheated and discouraged. Although it does help me, now i still have to plan vacations, business trips etc. on making sure I have my RX filled and on hand daily. :-(

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I'm wondering if the benefits of taking Vyvanse outweigh the negative side effects. I haven't seen many positive reasons for taking this medication, which I understood is given to help people with impulse control, scattered thinking, and difficulty staying on task which affects their daily living. Has Vyvanse improved the life of anyone out there?

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Em--are you still out there? I know it's been a few months, but your post touched me. I hope you talked to your sponsor. I hope you stopped beating yourself up. I hope you're on the other side of this. Listen--you don't sound like you've abused your Vyvanse. You took it as prescribed. Your doctor made the mistake when he cold-turkeyed you off it. You can't help being habituated to an addictive drug. I don't care what doctors say--enough people feel like crap getting off this drug, so it certainly has addictive properties. That doesn't mean you can't take it--if it genuinely helps. You know the difference between helpful and high. You are not a fraud. You have a disease, and you are young enough to be entitled to a misstep here and there, if that's even what this is. My partner is 52, and he didn't get fully sober until he was 42. Hopefully you'll be luckier. Just trust your support network. And tell your doctor about your experiences. Staying quiet only perpetuates the idea for them that these drugs are benign. Most of the people on this forum are not addicts, and they are having the same issues you are. It's not you--it's the drug! You're so young--this too shall pass (and be replaced by another challenge, hopefully one that doesn't suck as much...)

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I'm still here, still reading. It seems that every day I get an email notifying me that someone has replied to this thread...really speaks to the fallacy of 'benign' amphetamines, huh?

Sadly, I'm still in the same boat, although I've devised strategies to keep me from abusing the med as much -- I stay at my boyfriend's house every Saturday night, so I take a week's worth of pills with me but leave the rest there. (Hidden, mind you, because he doesn't know about this whole mess.) That kind of solves the problem, but only in a superficial way. The joy of being free from dependency on substances is not having to jump through hoops just to feel okay. I'll keep you posted...something has to give, sometime, and then we'll see.

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Wow you its amazing how you just explained every single problem that I have been dealing on vyvanse(70) The lack of motivation, the feeling of having the life sucked out of you, everything. Iv stopped taking it cold turkey several times but never lasted more than 2 weeks. Usually once I make it to that period I start to notice my "free" self come out and the fatigue goes away. But I always end up telling myself, take the pill, have an easy day. And I always end up regretting it down the road.

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Not only have I gotten off vyvanse, but I have also gotten off seroquel. The end result is, I have never been better. My initial exposure to vyvanse was through this pill-pushing doctor recommended to me through a 12-step (AA) program. He told me that this drug would help me like no other drug has helped me before, as the effects are instantaneous!! "What a bullsh** artist" I thought to myself as I toted both my vyvanse RX (50 mg) and seroquel samples home. The next day, I was in a for a big shock when I took my first capsule. I felt as though the rat race in my head subsided and became replaced with a clairty of vision which at first register seemed otherwordly. I was crying tears of joy. When I walked into my therapy group...people realized the difference almost immediately. I could carry on conversations with people without any invasive sort of thoughts purging through my conciousness and felt as though I had found the proverbial key to open the prison doors. Then 4pm rolled around and, to my own dismay, I began experiencing a sh**storm of negative thoughts and "the heebie jeebies". Enter stage left: THE F***ING CRASH! This was horrible, as my obsessive thoughts would return upon talking to people; all along the lines of "It appears, my friend, as if you're in a very tight spot. This morning you were carrying on wonderful conversations with your therapy group mates and raring to go..but now we are slowly seeing a slip. Do you think your friends at AA can see the frustration in your eyes that is inherent in people who are one step away from kicking and screaming?" By the evening hours, I would still get those negative thoughts but they were not powerful enough to get me to punch the wall or have an anger spell. I was realistic, yet overly cynical. Then I would take the seroquel, and fall asleep. The vyvanse was for all intents and purposes a wonder drug. I felt like I was God's best gift to man..rocking every scene, but all-in-all it just wasn't me. One day, my doctor decided to up the prescription to 75mg...but when I took it I didn't feel one thing. Back to 50 mg. Then I started feeling no effects taking that dosage, and the doctor prescribed me some wonderful Zoloft to go along with it. I remember one day I walked into my AA room and was so depressed I wanted to scream at the people who were taking up my time talking to me with the most boring conversations known to man. This coincided with my Zoloft episode...and I realized at this point I had to start taking double the amount to avoid a crash and burn like that. I remember around Christmas-time I popped two pills and felt as though I was a kid again. I always wanted to walk through those old super 8 filmstrips and be happy again, only this time around I felt BETTER than I did when I was a kid, and no one noticed I had a problem. BUT THEN THE CRASH, yet the buzz seemed to last forever. The crash felt to me like a bad cocaine trip. When I'm buzzed I like to take random drives sometimes 20-30 miles away from where I live. This time around, I was convinced that every car was going to crash into me or that someone had "a little surprise in store for me" in the form of a carjacking or car tap. When I got home and surfed the internet I would still feel some sort of a buzz, but I had seroquel and it took the agitation away. A few months later, I started realizing that these drugs were my master...and that the "Chris" I had accepted was not the "Chris" God wanted me to be. The duration of the buzzes started to lessen, I became more anxious and irritated and at the same time the seroquel would dope me out for 12 hours at a time. I began to pray to God with the honest desire in my heart that I would become the best I would ever be, go back to school, and be in the picture for my family and friends. I remember I was crying immensely, trusting he would be my cornerstone in this whole restoration process. Then, it seemed, I was reneging on the deal. But He still had his eyes on me. Initially I had to put the vyvanse down because my script ran out in 15 days time. When I called up the doctor to make an appointment (exactly a month from when the last bottle was prescribed) the receptionist told me he was away on vacation and he would be back 15 days after the date I had anticipated. Would I make it? I began praying more and more and realized that the doctor's being away on vacation was more than just a coincidence, it was God seeing to it that I restore my life and hold on to his Word; moulding my desire to "get my life back" into fruition. At this point I was still very unhappy because I thought I would never get off seroquel. My mother was very influential and told me I could do it; all I had to do was cut it into halves and later quarters. All my life I never thought I could amount up to a hill of beans and that the devil predicated every moment and event that landed on my plate. This time around, I refused to listen to this garbage..and vowed to fight against any and all suggestions of "mediocrity". As June turned into July I began splitting the 150 mg pill into halves and felt a sort of relief; but nothing compared to when I was able to split the halves into quarters and sleep soundly. I recall waking up and crying. The seroquel hangovers were over. And in another few weeks time, my life was given back to me. I finally slept soundly without any antipsychotic sedative drug in my body. What's funny is that now, being completely off the drugs..I have more clarity, focus, and maturity than when I was under the effects of this amphetamine in the guise of an ADHD pill. For those of you who are struggling, remember that I had always thought that I was sitting in the devil's chair and had the numbers 666 marked on my head, but God (Love) stepped in and thanks to it all I am back in school, getting along with my brother who is also sick. I had never gotten along with him before and all of a sudden I can be a presence in his life. And I believe that God gives you back everything you have given, and if you don't get any proof of it...I am your staunchest ally and believe in you because in the end-run...even though it seems you're in the murkiest of circumstances, Love is the answer. Feel free to write me.

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I have been taking vyvanse for almost a year and have never stopped complaining about not feeling myself, each day around one, I need a nap, I am tired, cranky, miserable and unproductive. Which is murder on my self esteem making me feel a dissapointment to God, I pray and pray and began doing a few experiements, I stopped taking my vyvanse for two days. I felt better physically, but the day was a complete fog, I even forget to pray! Nothing got done, no house work nothing, after the two days I woke up this AM and decided to take the vyvanse and then It was clear, yes I am better focused and almost too focused which makes me anxious. I realized how disconnected to things I was without the vyvanse and I even lost my cell phone and was so off in the ozone that I didnt even look for it! I just want to feel normal, not crazy and aggitated and fatigued beyond belief with vyvanse, not a complete flake without it. I wonder if God is truly clarifying things and pointing to the vyvanse as the problem...

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I am 17 years old and halfway through cosmetology School. I was diagnosed with ADD this past April. I told my doctor about my preexisting heart condition. (He didn't seem very concerned) I started out on 30 MG and im now on 50. When I first started this medication I immediately was in an euphoric state. My hearing and vision improved, I had a sense that I could do anything. My next doctor visit I purposely told my doctor the dose didn't do anything for me so he gave me a higher dose. That's when the trouble started. I began having small ticks, I'd comb my hair excessively and began to pick at my face. I also went from smoking 3 cigarettes a day to nearly 2 packs. At my next weigh in I was sho led to see that I had dropped 20 pounds in 2 months. Being a bit chubby all my life I found this to be a pleasant side effect. Here recently I've noticed how aggressive I've been. Im normally a shy person, but at school I interrupt people talking to me, I can't focous, severely depressed, my legs ache then turn a purple/red color and swell up and there is a constant ringing in my ears. I realized I have a problem when I opened 4 capsuls and ate the powder. It was magnificent, I called everyone I knew just to chat with them about how much I love life. That was about 40 hours ago, and the past 24 hours has been a nightmare. I I just want to go through a single day without having an overbearing urge to take the damn things. Is it easier to lower the dose gradually or to quit cold Turkey? Advvise is always appreciated.

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You will be ok, don't give up! I'm feeling better every day scince stopping over 50 days ago. There is no doubt that vyvanse can completely destroy lives. The best thing you can do is stop now and don't look back. You will start to feel normal again in a few days, so don't worry!

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I have been struggling to stop taking V- it's freakin hard but some discipline and we've got this. I'm ready to feel like my strength is from myself not e V. I want control Over my life back. 3 days off the V and I'm starting to feel more energized! Appetite is hugely increased but I'm taking less naps than the first 2 days off V. We got this- it's just breaking a habit!

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Hey bud! Try not to worry, you are going to be ok, it just takes time. I took vyvanse for around 2 years and am very proud to say I have been clean from it for almost 4 months now. There are still some days that I do not feel myself, but it gets easier and easier to deal with. you can read several of my posts on here to get an idea of where I was at 6 months ago and where I am at today. There is a world of difference. The main thing you have to do is keep going. The worst thing you can do right now is to give up because you are right on the verge of breaking free from this my friend. You have the worst part behind you. Now what you are dealing with is learning to live life again. It is hard to deal with life and simple tasks that are required of you after relying on a substance for so long. You need to keep a positive attitude no matter how hard it may be. Believe me, at one time I thought I would never be normal again. That is not true my friend, it just takes time and patience. If you have a church you can attend I highly recomend you getting involved. Jesus heals and he will be your rock through times like these. I'm not tryin to preach to you, I'm telling you what has worked for me when NOTHING else would! Your battle is more in your mind now than anything. I'd be more than happy to share some things with you that have helped me. My email is please email me and I will help you any way I can.

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Noshyt! You should really think about getting of vyvanse yourself!! It is obvious by your paragraph of 1 sentence seperated by 100 commas that you are going off the deep end brother! Work on yourself before you try to work on others!!!

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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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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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Hey coolchick! Sorry to hear you are going through a hard time. You are at a cross road and is imperative that you keep pushing forward without the vyvanse and do not give up. Things will slowly but surely get better, it takes time to recover from the destruction vyvanse does to your mind and body. I was on vyvanse for over 2 years, dosages as high as 140 mg per day, you can scroll back through these posts and read my posts on how bad it got. When I quit for the last time, I pretty much had to learn to live all over again. Everything will get better without a doubt, it just takes time. I am clean from all add drugs for well over year now and my life just keeps getting better. For me, it all started when I reconnected with God.
When you put your faith in Jesus to get you through this, and give you the gift of life again, you will not be disappointed. He can heal your pain, and he can help you to focus without any drugs, you have to believe that. These drugs are from the devil, and the way you feel now is the way the devil wants you to feel, dead. Jesus offers life and life more abundantly! Trust in him at all times! He will lead you out of this hell and back to a prosperous and happy life without dependency on drugs that can end your life. If you need any help please post me back.

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Myself has been on vyvanse for almost 5 years. I'm convinced i need to seek my doctor for further evaluation to help wing myself off this drug. i have the same withdrawal symptoms as yourself. It takes all i have to crawl out of bed. i don't understand, i was diagnosed with adhd but after trying to stop my medication i am lifeless. i hope vyvanse has not impact my personality permanently. everyone says they love the old blake. to those with small children please take my advice as bad as your child my be not paying attention or being a chatty kathy i recommend letting kids be kids it will take extra one on one parenting but my whole life i had to work extra hard in school but i am very gifted with a wonderful personality and. vyvanse alters your brain which doesn't allow you to be yourself.. its almost like your brain doesn't allow you to think "outside the box". vyvance is extremely dependent! it does help you to stay focused but the cons out weigh the pros!

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I am very tempted to give an in depth story but i will deny that urge and try to keep this brief. I have experienced most of these symptoms or at least felt my potential to have them while taking vyvanse (irritation, anger, fatigue, shortness of breath, etc.). Whats important is you have to eat...no questions no arguments. Along with that you must hydrate your body. Vyvanse eliminated my hunger and i didnt even think about food. Ill put it like this vyvanse gives the body extreme amounts of energy and focus which believe it or not takes a toll on the body. Your burning all kinds of resources your body has stored up. That level of energy and focus doesnt come without cost. Food and water are a requirement for this type of med and dont forget to sleep. Basically pill or no pill if your body doesnt have the fuel its not gonna operate right and if u force it you will soon realize how much of a mistake it is to do so. Doing this eliminates my bad symptoms. But the higher the dosage=more focus=requires more food and water & foods high in protein are best. I find it best to eat small things about every 2 hours. Hope this helps someone.

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I was interested in the negative effects of vyvance, so I searched up this thread, and I was taken aback by everyone's negative experiences. Not that I was completely surprised, I assume any heavy drug would have many different effects. My experience over the last 4 months has been mostly positive. I think the key with this drug is to find the exact dosage that works for you - beyond the mg dosage, I've found it to be perfect if I mix the 70mg pill into water every morning. For me, taking about 50% at 8-9 am is good, and then I will drink about 30% at 11-12, and finish the last 20% before 2pm. That tends to keep me focused and clear until I go to bed around 11-12pm. I started at 50mg and I would have a slow clarifying surge of energy after I took it, then it would drop off about 6 hours later, and I would feel tired and unmotivated. Now that I carefully mete out the amount that I need through the day, it is much more helpful. I've taken days off, but I have yet to experience withdrawal from the drug. I don't doubt that I will have to face that at some point. Drugs are a powerful force that you have to use your discretion with - it's never going to be a true cure for psychological problems, but simply a powerful bandaid.

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