Withdrawal From Vyvanse (Page 6)
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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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Hi, so I've been taking vyvanse for 8 months now? and without having a chance for a prescription refill on these crazy holidays I've had terrible side effects. constantly sleepy, irritable, sad, headaches, overly hungry BUT that was cold turkey off 40mg.
My experience with the drug has been overall very good. sweating and increase anxiety (already have anxiety Haha) and insomnia are completely worth the focus and organization I get. even with insomnia I'm not tired and after starting a mood stabilizer in conjunction my mood is great. less anxious and hardly sad.
withdrawal isn't fun but honestly vyvanse has been great for me. not all reactions are bad :) and sometimes you just need the right combination!
female, 19 - 110lbs

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I'm 18 years old 130 pounds male. I was prescribed Vyvanse about a year ago now, and I found it very helpful in completing the remainder of grade twelve. I would take a 20mg pill every morning and take one day off on the weekend. I experienced a whole bunch of different side effects in the beginning: "The sweats", "The shakes", once rage, but the only one of any regularity being anxiety- the first time I ever felt anxiety was from taking Vyvanse, I'd never experienced it before. The anxiety was typically set of by something random, typically something which does really merit worry/anxiety over (e.g. waving at someone and them not seeing you). But there were very positive effects as well, I no longer fell asleep in class, I was engaged, even french class was interesting. I was able to deal with the side effects thanks to friends and family, and took a break from taking it over the summer- no withdrawal symptoms or anything. At that point I did feel like taking Vyvanse was a good thing, even with the side-effects, it was exciting even though it was scary/ panic inducing at times. I started first year engineering at university this year, and I've taken a Vyvanse every single day for 4 months now. On the days I forget to take it first thing in the morning, I feel pretty normal. But eventually I realize that the reason why I feel so sleepy and distracted is because I forgot my pill. It's exams time and my side-effects are becoming worse and worse. I'm a touch worried about stopping taking my Vyvanse when I get home, just from reading the previous comments.

My most recent side effects are: sever anxiety to the point of ambiguous paranoia (worried and scared but not about anything in specific), a general feeling of unrest, feeling sleepy during the day, irregular sleep habits (though that maybe my fault, not the Vyvanse)

It sounds very negative when I say it but, I feel compelled to take Vyvanse everyday, regardless of the side-effects and I feel like I won't be able to succeed at school like I want to without it.

I'm going to go cold turkey over Christmas break and try giving myself a weekly break next semester.

I suggest seriously considering this medication before taking using this medication. Although most of what i described was negative, I have experiance a large number of positive qualties

sorry for the length of this post...

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Hey bro you will be ok! Glad that you noticed the downside of vyvanse before you really did get addicted. It is defiantly not good for former addicts of any kind. Trust in Jesus he will never put anything on you that you can't handle, so know that you can survive with ADHD just like you said! Hang in there ! \o/ praise God \o/ another person has seen the Light and it is not vyvanse !

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I am 37 years old I have A history of alcoholism and drug addiction. I have been sober over two years. I also have adult ADD I'm in school part time and work full time. ADD has caused me a lot of suffering and my LPC recommended I see a psychiatrist to get on some medication for my ADD which was causing me a lot of anxiety. I started on Strattera and had an allergic reaction, then I started on by Vyvance and worked my way up to a 60 mg per day dose. The medication started to wear off about 3 PM when I began feeling agitated irritated and extremely depressed. I would then start feeling like I "wanted more". Then my head would start spinning with racing thoughts about, was I addicted? Do I need to take more so that it will last longer throughout the day? Did this happened everyone else? Am I going crazy? I began obsessing about this medication. When my doctor did not want to increase my dose I felt like I was going to go crazy, I couldn't stop thinking about it I was so confused. I finally flushed the pills down the toilet and I decided to go back to my regular life with ADD and just to make lifestyle/workload adjustments instead. It's just not worth my sobriety, peace of mind, and my spiritual connection with my higher power. The hardest part for me was that by Vyvance did seem to work for my ADD symptoms but it also triggered an addiction response in my body, which then triggered a huge amount of guilt. If you are an addict you don't have to feel guilty you were born this way, but we need to be aware when things make us feel this way so that we can talk to someone about it and make the right choice. I have only been off by Vyvance now for 24 hours, I am irritable angry and still a little bit confused I feel sorry for those who have had terrible withdrawal symptoms I'm glad I only took this medication for less than one month. Best of luck to everyone!!

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Amen! Jesus is the only way!

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I took Vyvanse for 4 years and I choose to quit. I will never touch it again. I strongly encourage you and all people everywhere to get your freedom from Vyvanse and I mean permanently. I smashed a very good paid for BMW and my marriage to bits because of Vyvase. Only 40 mg a day of it turned me from a very sweet lady with ADD into a very unhappy woman. It gave me anxiety so bad that I was unfit to drive and had chest pains severe enough to call 911 on 2 occasions. My decision to live with ADD without Vyvanse has me healthy and happy. I'm functional with ADD, but I wasn't functioning right at all on the Vyvanse. My marriage is saved.I have another fine car. I will have a good life with no Vyvase in the picture. Psalm 40 to those who are suffering. Pray and get your freedom!

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If you had that experience with Vyvanse, it's not that it's a bad medication,it's just that your body and mind don't agree with the medication. There are a large sum more positive reports on Vyvanse than negative ones. Vyvanse has done everything to me that it did to you at first, and continues to. I have never had this depression or thoughts towards life that you had when you were on the medication. Simply put: Medications act differently on different people

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How long have you been off of Vyvanse for? I'm experiencing some of the same things and it's been about four days for me

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My suggestion is to talk to your doc and. Tell him or her how ur feeling. If you just stop cold turkey the withdraw symtoms are brutals.

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My 16 year old son was on Vyvanse (50 mg) during the spring semester of 2013. His grades improved significantly, he was more focused and we were all happy ... until he started to go to bed very late and keep us all up. His blood pressure increased but we couldn't get him off of Vyvanse for fear of withdrawal symptoms. He needed to finish the school year first. After the initial withdrawal symptoms subsided (sleepiness, irritability), we noticed that his inability to go to sleep remained. It is very difficult for him to go to sleep when he's supposed and difficult for him yo wake up. He is now severely anxious, irritated, angry and sometimes belligerent. He used to be a loving, caring, happy go lucky kind of guy. He has changed since he started taking Vyvanse. Most of the published research on Vyvanse cite short-term withdrawal symptoms. I wish there was long term research on Vyvanse. We will then know the real story. Anybody had similar experiences?

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Yes I struggled with the same thing. Even intimately I couldn't really feel anything. After doing a lot of orthomolecular research I've found that different histamine types, hi, low or bipolar or schizophrenic all respond differently. It seems to distort in all the metabolism of histamine. look up histapenia and histadelia and see if any of those symptoms apply. That will help you with a course of action. Tyrosine helps alot of people 1000mg typically, with withdrawl symptoms. I run histapenic so that doesn't work for me. Both types tend to do well on DMAE. If you get that loving feeling at the onset of your dose, Beta-Alanine may be a good option. Also read up on Adrenal Fatigue. If you are heavier and run histapenic, do a niacin test. This will help re reraise your histamine levels naturally. You will not want to do this if you are tall, thin and histadelic. Hope that gets you started. Blessings.

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Hey bid! Yes it's that way for a lot of people. Vyvanse will slowly but surely take everything from you if your not careful. It can be very hard to see all the bad it's doing to you also, so please be carefull. I would suggest getting off of it as soon as possible before it takes more of your life away. Turn to Jesus and he will heal you and give you your happiness back. This vyvanse is from the devil and I urge anyone who can to quit while they are still ahead! God is the answer to get your life back scott, vyvanse will only take more of it away.

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I would like to know if anyone else on vyvance has there feeling and emotions stripped away? I am on 50 mg and have been for over a yr, I'm 43 yrs young and I have no emotions or feelings and was juSt wondering if any one else experiences this. Thank you for your replys

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I took Aderol from about third grade through 7th and i've been on Vyvanse from then until now (12th grade). I've taken 50mg for a few years now and about 2 weeks ago, I started spilling (about 10 mg out) because I felt shaky when the meds peaked and have been getting migraines more frequently. For the first week of spilling I felt amazing- my friends joked that I acted like I was high. My productivity didn't go down a ton, but it wasn't the same. For the past few days though, I have been fidgety. Right now I'm a little dizzy. I have definitely been more emotional. I'm more attracted to girls and I feel like I just have more testosterone. I remember when I used to forget my meds when I was doing 50 mg, and Id feel way out of it. I'd usually get (sorry for the bluntness) several hour-long erections. It's definitely a big shift in mood and way of thinking with and without the meds.

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Reduce vyvanse. I am 27 and have been on vyavase for 5 years, and at one point I was taking 30mg 2x a day. I felt the exact same way. It gets you awake and alert originally, but then drains you leaving you exhausted and depressed by the end of the day. If you continue on the drug, your dependence will grow, and the falls will be that much worse. I decreased my vyvanse down to 20 mg once/day and I am trying to get completely off. I still feel that depressed fall in the afternoons, but I try to suplement activities, coffee, exercise for that second dose I once took. I do not think there is anything wrong with being on Vyvanse, but I've heard from numerous professionals that I should have never been taking it more than once a day. (Just a caution). I wanted to reach out to you because I wish I would have had someone tell me the horrible lows that come with this drug, and how 5 years later I would be fighting with myself to try to get off. My suggestion is to first only take it once a day, and then try to get to a lower dose that will give you the benefits, without such a bad crash.

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Your story is very inspiring. I have been on various doses of vyvanse for 5 years (60mg-20mg), and all I want is to be off of it. I have come down to the losest amount-20 mg a day. I have spoke to various pharmacists, whom have nothing to gain by their proffessional advise. Every one has told me to slowly ween myself off to reduce the side effects. I went from 60mg to 40 mg to now 20 mg. The transition is easier than cold turkey. But now that I am on the 20 mg, I am having a hard time stopping. I have been given the advice to take it every other day. This helps your brain get used to displacing the chemicals vyvanse produces. I just started, and the every other day I'm off it I cannot do anything. So I can only imagine how you are feeling at 3 days without. My suggesstion is to reduce the amount to the lowest dose (20 mg) and then every other day as I am. If you keep up cold turkey, I would love to hear back on how your feeling. I am anxious to know how long I will start to feel better if I went the same route. I hate this drug, and I wish I never would have started it.

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I am convinced after being on Vyvanse that it messes with your Histamine levels. If your husband is bi-polar I would strongly encourage you to look up information on Pyroluria or Histadelia. DMAE has been a great alternative. Look for articles by Dr. Wison, Walsh or Pfieffer. You may have a new hubby at the end. Vyvanse is known to cause Schizophrenia long term and I'm convinced that it messes with Zinc levels as well.

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I never gave vyvanse much thought I took it everyday for the first year or so and it really helped but even then I had major problems with this medication. I can take 30mg and be almost normal but 40-50mg and beyond has caused extreme effects to me I've done meth over a dozen times molly oxy benzos and I've not done these drugs in years but they never affected me like vyvanse the only thing that ever did was super high doses of benzos, it was the opposite effect of vyvanse almost mirrored integrated into every aspect. I've been on vyvanse for about 3 years started at 30mg then backed down to 20mg now I'm at 40mg and please listen to me about this medication I have studied extensively drugs and drug interactions(synergisms) in college and I can say with certainty that this company shire I think it was is not being honest about this medications side effects they are extreme. I've spent the last 4 hours reading posts from people on this drug my last dose of it was Saturday which was my first dose of it in weeks and I can still feel the anxiety and social withdraw and it's Tuesday morning look this drug is dangerous it lasts about 12 hours on a single dose now that's efficient for a drug such as oxycodone or an anxiety med and almost every type of medication this is a good thing but not for a dex-amp this particular chemical structure is too efficient for human consumption I feel the exact same way about methamphetamine look if I was doing meth I'd rather have 40mg of vyvanse than 10.00 worth of crystal meth and I don't even like meth but it's that potent the reason for the extreme side effects of meth and vyvanse is the longevity of the duration of a single dose these drugs are not safe over a period of a couple hours take adderall and dose a couple times a day or whatever just stay away from this drug.

I sit in my bedroom now when given a choice to either interact with people or be alone. I haven't not felt depressed in a year or two. If I'm on this stuff for even a week it takes me another week just to feel like getting out of bed. I'm 6'1" I started vyvanse at 155lb when I hit 136lb I stopped I'm now back to 160lb after months off of it except for every once in a while. I can't get erections on the stuff really not without dads Viagra and I'm 24 with a lot of testosterone. I turned on my entire family in July when I was 136lbs and quit taking it, I thought they all hated me so I just quit talking to them. I've lost two relationships over vyvanse every time I took it an was around my girlfriend later that night I thought she was cheating on me and accused her of it often. I would sub-consciously look for someone trying to hurt my feelings and given the nature of the looker being the finder it seems I found a reason for my feelings to be hurt by someone daily. This stuff is great for energy and focus and so is methamphetamine, if you ever want to see just how alike they are have someone you hate try it and ask em about it I'm still getting over it.

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I too was prescribed Vyvanse just recently after having been on and off of Adderall XR for 5 years. The only reason my doctor switched me is because I told him my regular dose of 20mg wasn't seeming to help as much so, instead of sticking with the drug that has been proven to work with little side effects, he switches me to 50mg Vyvanse. Horrible, horrible side effects for me!!! I was originally prescribed Adderall to help me wake up in the mornings because that was something I have always struggled with. On Vyvanse, I am so extremely groggy in the mornings and cannot wake up. I have always been a very talkative person and Adderall never changed that for me, but oh boy now on Vyvanse I just want to be left alone and my anxiety is 10x worse. I have always bit my cuticles when I get anxious, but on Vyvanse I'm making almost every one of my fingers bleed I'm biting them so much, and I don't even realize it until afterward. Also, when Vyvanse is starting to wear off, I get really mean and angry toward my kids and husband. Needless to say if my dr doesn't switch me back I'm going to someone who will listen to me instead of telling me what will and won't work when I know myself better than him!!!

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Nick,
Praise God! So happy to hear about your success story bro! Stay strong and stay away from that crap! I've been off for a few years now and things are great! You made the right choice by leaving vyvanse behind you!

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