Posted by divergent-reality on August 10, 2003, at 0:04:55
The formulation for Adderall (immediate release) has been changed. This may be of interest to those of you who, like myself, may be allergic or sensitive to certain inactive ingredients. I found this out the hard way when I had my prescription filled just recently. The color of the pills has not changed. I took my normal dose on Thursday, July 31, and the following Monday evening I developed eight, dime sized and larger, red, itchy hives! I did not suspect that it may be caused by the Adderall becasue I have been taking it for nearly two years.
I took some antihistamine medication right away just to be on the safe side. I became suspicious on Friday when the hives were still very red, swollen and itchy. I have had this same reaction in the past to Wellbutrin, Serzone, Zoloft, Luvox, Paxil, Celexa, Effexor and Buspar. I had no hives when I took Prozac capsules, but the Prozac gave me racing, paranoid thoughts and made me sleepy, and slowly gain weight that was extremely hard to get rid of until I stopped taking it and even then it took a long, long while to come off. When I tried Remeron it made me very sleepy and gain weight at an astonishing rate, which was unacceptable after my Prozac experience.
I decided to call "Shire" on the remote chance that they had changed the inactive ingredients and to my surprise they had indeed changed them. I was told that they had added some new ingredients and had dropped some of the previous ones. I confirmed this by calling the pharmacy and asking for the lot number and then calling the lady back at Shire to give her the number just to make sure that I had really received the newly formulated Adderall.
I immediately called my PDOC and we decided to try Adderall XR. (This had been suggested by the very helpful lady at Shire) That way I could open the capsule and sprinkle the contents on some applesauce and discard the, potentially offending, capsule. I was more than willing to try this because Adderall had worked so well for me. I had the prescription filled last night and was told that I could take the first dose, 20 mg. the next day, in the morning on Saturday, today. Well that's exactly what I did. Just as the former hives were beginning to flatten out and not itch, almost 3 hours after ingesting the Adderall, applesauce combo, a new and even larger hive, bigger than a half dollar coin, began to appear. I usually feel the burning itch before I see them, which I did while I was out shopping and thinking that all was going to be just fine and that I had averted a pontential disaster in more ways than one.
I was doing so well, feeling really good for so long with my atypical depression and now I don't know what I'm going to do. I can't take the Tricyclic Antidepressants because of a long QT interval. All that is left are the MAOI's and they really scare me. This is very depressing! My reality has been rendered again!
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