I have ADHD, and take adderall XR for it. However, for the past almost month, I have been without it because my pharmacy has a shortage of it. At first, I didn’t experience immediate problems except for increased appetite and maybe a few other minor issues but for the past week, i have developed anxiety and worry about things more strongly than I typically do. Is this normal? And based on your experience, does adderall “decrease” anxiety?
Short answer: yes.
My prescribed stimulant curbs a lot of anxiety. Unmedicated me will often not leave my home for weeks.
Not sure but I bet the people in https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/adhd will know.
Yes, based on my experience Adderall reduces anxiety along with other ADHD symptoms. And when you stop taking Adderall, the symptoms, including anxiety, come back.
I wouldn’t call this withdrawal symptoms, though.The following is not a recommendation, just an anecdote:
I used to self-medicate heavily with cigarettes. When I quit, all the ADHD symptoms hit me hard. So I got me some nicotine gum just to deal with that.
I’m currently on an extended vacation in a country where legally bringing my ADHD meds wouldn’t have been possible. So I bought a couple packs of nicotine gum and find they work well in managing my symptoms, until I get back home to my meds.
Probably wouldn’t do shit for anyone who was never addicted to nicotine, though.You make it sound like a long or hard process to get addicted to nicotine… just pick up a vape at the gas station and within a week of use you will be all set with your lovely new addiction.
No clue if this is common among adhd, but i find chemical addiction absurdly easy to stop. To the point that i would say ive never had a chemical “addiction” despite imbibing a lot of chemicals.
Habitual addiction, though, suck. I can vape 0 nic perpetually just as well as 21 nic. The important bit is the smoke, not the chemicals in it. Its a habit, not an addiction.
I tried 2 different medications for my ADHD, none were Adderall but one of them was somewhat similar, sorry I can’t remember the names at the moment.
The first one I had to stop taking after just a couple weeks because I wanted to crawl out of work because I was so socially anxious, I didn’t want people to see me at all . When I stopped I was almost immediately better.
These meds play a lot with your dopamine and norepinephrine levels which regulate your stress quite a bit.
With those 2 ingredients out you should ‘normally’ just feel depressed and lethargic in withdrawal but we all react a bit differently to those medications so yeah that makes sense. Depending how long you were taking them it could take you a month before you feel normal.
It will pass, be patient.
Yeah I was taking adderall regularly every day throughout my college semester
Withdrawal from ANY sedative includes anxiety and problems with concentration, also not related, withdrawal from antidepressants cause Hella sleepiness, i sleep all days straight through holidays since December 27
Adderall is, uh, not a sedative.
Hahaha right? It’s the opposite of a sedative.
Had same feelings as sedative after trying it
Then you have ADHD. (Probably.) Stimulants tend to make ppl with ADHD feel like they’re slowing down, because it allows them to pay attention to just one thing instead of everything all at once (depending in the exact flavor of ADHD, anyways).
Yeah, my mother have adhd so i could probably inherit predisposition to it since she is my direct blood relative
ADHD is an extremely profitable diagnostic that has the particularity of some unpleasant withdrawal symptoms once patients stop microdosing on extremely expensive formulations of meth.
Take off your tinfoil hat man. The entire us healthcare system is the profitable cancer, not the illnesses
ADHD is overdiagnosed the same way Oxy was overprescribed. The incentives are there to have entire generations depend on highly physically addictive substances that will guarantee a consistent stream of income. ADHD is a real disease, a significant portion of people diagnosed with it, don’t have it. That is ALSO happening in the US but it’s prevalent in western pedopsychiatry.
I imagine this post goes against rule 5: an actual topic of discussion, and definitely against rule 1, as this is a yes/no question. This problem could easily be figured out by looking it up. I found this by just a quick Kagi search. So yes, anxiety is a common side-effect of Adderall withdrawal.
While yes it is a yes or no question, sometimes questions benefit from the discussion behind the yes or no.
If you don’t like social media don’t be here. The guy just wants some anecdotal advice. It’s not hard to ignore and move on if you don’t want to contribute.
As I clarified in another comment, I might’ve been a bit grumpier than I intended in my original reply due to some stuff that happened today. And the personal experience may be more valuable to others than it is to be so I didn’t think about that really. Maybe partially because of those same frustrations I skipped that thought, or not, I don’t know. Either way I didn’t mean to come over as rude, my bad.
However, I do like forums like these for discussions about certain topics, and my initial thought was that this is a question for a medical professional and wouldn’t lead to any fun discussion, which is why I replied in the way that I did, if maybe with the wrong tone to the comment. So “not being here” isn’t the solution, in my opinion.
It’s just a question, if you care so much about “rules” then simply ignore and don’t respond to the it. I already looked it up but I just wanted to know the perspective of people who can actually relate to my situation. But thanks for the link
Closed questions tend to not be very interesting discussion posts. Which is what I subbed to this community for. That’s the only reason I said anything about the rules.
And honestly I don’t know what else to say, or what other comments you could expect here – it’s a yes/no answer, in this case yes. Not much else to say imo…
Maybe perhaps: “yes”, followed by someone’s own personal experience. Kinda like the user whose comment you got removed for no reason. Just because YOU don’t see it beyond “yes or no” doesn’t mean other people don’t.
The other person’s comment got removed by a moderator because they called me a loser.
Just because YOU don’t see it beyond “yes or no” doesn’t mean other people don’t.
Fair enough. I’m fairly tired from work (and it’s almost bedtime for me), and still somewhat annoyed from some assholes on the tram that kept pressing the disabled button to keep the tram from moving to the next stop, so I might’ve been a bit more direct/rude than I meant to be in my initial reply.
It’s all good
Glad you got it in time. We need a proper medical ADHD community where we can discuss this stuff without power tripping bastards on the ADHD community.
Please read my other comments before resorting to calling me a bastard, after your comment got removed for calling me a loser.
Not you goofball, the mod
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