Re: Vyvanse Day 1 – questions

[Anonymous]

Haha, this thread hasn’t been touched in a while, but I just wanted to say that my experience was a lot like Carrie’s.

I was on 10mg ritalin, and my psychiatrist doubled the dose, then I felt a … feeling… I wouldn’t call it “high” necessarily, but a mildy entranced euphoria may be an accurate description. He just swapped me over to 50mg of Vyvanse as needed, mostly because I didn’t like the roller-coaster of awake/sleepy, happy/irritable, and focused/totally distracted going back and forth a few times every day.

–(Little side note) When I took 20mg of ritalin before class, despite the odd feeling, I took far more notes than usual, and they were 100x more comprehendible to me later when I’d review them. (Before my notes were basically full of cat scratch and half finished sentences that, when I wrote them, I thought “Oh yeah, I’ll be able to remember what that was about. No luck)

Today was my first day on Vyvanse. My Psychiatrist said that the first or first few doses will have a stronger early-on rush, but would calm down but still be effective later. I definitely had that “euphoria” again, a tad stronger than when on Ritalin, but not by much. It wore off a couple hours later, then I could tell that I was still able to focus, but without that rush. Ritalin seemed to only help me focus when I had that rush.

As for being chatty, if you’re like me, then I think you are just becoming more responsive and understanding more of what you hear. I’m a very… quiet person? Not quiet as in I just don’t talk. Sometimes I can talk up a storm about things I am very interested in, but in social situations, my mind has nothing to say. When I take the medications, I seem to catch on to the topics and have things to say to people that actually make sense and isn’t just some random blabber that would usually appear.

Since it’s been a while since you started taking it, I’d like to know how it’s going for you. Has the dose seemed to work better for you yet, without the sudden rush a couple hours after the dose?

Also, I’m not sure about Zoloft, but I do know that some medicines, such as Lexapro, can have greatly undesired reactions with amphetamines. I think it’s referred to as serotonin syndrome if you want to research it and ask your psychiatrist about it.

Good Luck!!

Alex

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