Posted by dove on November 7, 2000, at 13:30:53
In reply to Re: ADHD and adderall - long (need help, tho...), posted by stjames on November 6, 2000, at 21:32:09
I've been taking Adderall for awhile now, and have taken it with many different med cocktails. Out of all the meds I've taken, Adderall is, and was the easiest to modify along with being the med with the least side-effects (for me anyway...).
One obstacle I did have to work on was that afternoon crash. Currently, I'm taking 40 mgs of Adderall per day. The 40 mgs is taken in either three (3) doses (20mgs-am, 10mgs-noonish, and 10mgs about 6 pm-ish) or four (4) doses (10mgs-8am, 10mgs-12pm, 10mgs-4:30pm, and 10mgs-7pm). All this translates into a smoother afternoon and evening.
Before I had all this worked out, I was taking Adderall twice per day (morning and noon), mostly due to my doc's fear of Adderall causing difficulties with regard to sleeping. However, as he recognized the weariness of the afternoon break-downs, he decided to augment the Adderall with afternoon and evening Wellbutrin (Bupropion). Unfortunately, at that time, Wellbutrin caused significant sleep difficulties as well as tremors and increasingly worse afternoon crashes.
Gave up the Wellbutrin, and replaced the Adderall/Wellbutrin regimen with a med combo of Adderall and Serzone, each taken four times (x4) daily, or Adderall taken three times daily (20-am, 10-noon, 10-early evening) and Serzone taken four times (x4) daily (am, noon, early evening, and at bedtime). I also tend to skip 20-40 mgs of Adderall once a month, usually on weekends, I find it refreshing and think of it as mental maintenance, as it provides for a better response the following two weeks. But hey, that's just me and I can be kinda strange sometimes :-)
Best of luck to you and should anything I said be unclear just give us a holler!
dove
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