Reply To: Adderall & Vyvanse: Tongue soreness

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Sorry- been away for awhile (I work in a pre-press group and the holidays are always hectic).

@ bjacobson30 and Fabulous- Interestingly, I started on a 10mg twice a day dose of the Adderall. The side effects were slight but manageable BUT it had no effect on my ADHD at all. My doctor recommended bumping the dosage up to 20mg twice a day. The effect on my ADHD was phenomenal (even my wife noticed it) but then the side effects I mentioned above really kicked in. I gave it two months with the hope that the side effects might be transitory and would subside after awhile. No such luck. I asked my doctor if it would be okay if I tried splitting some of the pills and try approximately 15mg twice a day. The effect on my ADHD was so/so but the side effects persisted. I finally had to give it up. My doctor briefly put me on Vyvanse (30mg once a day) which I didn’t really want to do because of the expense (my insurance is High-Deductable that only pays a co-pay after the deductable is met- in other words- it SUCKS!) but after a week, I began to develop the same problems I had with the Adderall so I had to give it up as well (my son takes Vyvanse and has had great results with it and no problems-lucky for him).
I should also note that as a child I took Ritalin (because that’s all there was in the ‘Cave Days’ of ADHD treatment). I developed serious problems with a blinking/breathing tic on that med (I don’t know what dosage I was taking then).
Based on this, my doctor and I have come to the conclusion that I just cannot physically handle stimulant drugs.
Tried Wellbutrin XL (Bupropion) at a couple of different dosages. Lower dosage (175mg 1xday) was useless. We bumped it up to 300mg 1 x day and after a month of taking Bupropion, I saw no improvement in my ADHD but my tinnitus went crazy (a known side effect) so my doctor is easing me off Bupropion at this time (you can’t just stop taking it ‘cold turkey’).
We were going to try Straterra but my eyes nearly popped out of my head when the Pharmacist told me how much it was going to cost (even taking it for a year, still would not meet my deductable- yeah my insurance is THAT bad).

I liked the effect that the stimulants had on my ADHD itself- but I can’t take them.

I feel as if I am at the end of my pharmaceutical rope.

Anybody else here have a similar story. Did you ever find anything that really worked?

I’m wondering if re-introducing a much lower dosage of a stimulant such as Adderall and taking a med such as Clonidine or Guanfacine might work? Have there been any studies on that type of therapy?

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