Withdrawal From Vyvanse (Page 3)
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My son had a terrible experience on wyvance. He has phyciatic systems to include halluciations. The doctor took him off the drup cold turkey and Ihe seems to be having withdrawal systems? Is that normal?

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I do not have ADHD and have taken vyvanse 30mg twice before for studying and it was very motivational and organized me and helped me a lot (for a sec i did think i have ADHD). The other day i took 20mg with no problems again, and the day after that another 20mg. Within a couple of hours of that second day I had a severe panic attack, severe shortness of breath, felt suffocated, and the panic attack lasted until i went for work at 4pm which was a distraction. The next morning i thought it was gone, but in the afternoon at 3pm the panic attack and hard breathing came again until i fell asleep at 10pm. it was horrifying. This morning i still feel shortness of breath but am trying not to freak out as to not start a panic attack. during these 3 days i wanted to seek medical attention but i cannot. I am a 17yr old female living with my mom and i could not tell her as to not disappoint her. I will never play with amphetamines again, especially vyvanse, i believe it's poison & highly addictive, i am just worried that this shortness of breath has not stopped and i shouldn't really be withdrawling because i only took it twice recently. any thoughts?

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You should try to get off it before it completely ruins your life like it has so many others. The longer you stay on it the longer it will take for you to recover and feel like a normal person again.you can focus in school without a drug to help you, it just takes applying yourself.
Don't let Drs tell you that you have to have a drug to be able to do well in school, it is just a lie. God gifted you with the abilities you need to be able to focus and do well.. You are talented and gifted, don't let this drug take that away from you..

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Im still in high school and i take the 70mg everyday and i suppose you could say that its about equal, when i take it, i do stay focused most of the day and it helps me to stay awake in class and do my work, but i also feel as if my face were molded, its like i can't get a smile or any other expression other than "sad "on my face. i constantly get asked "whats wrong?' or "are you ok?' and its kinda annoying and it's almost like i'm in a depressed state when im on it. When i'm not on it, i'm really tired (although i sleep nearly 11 hours a day) and i sometimes can't walk straight but i'm able to laugh and be happy, unlike when i take it......my feelings about it are sorta mixed, i don't like taking it but i know i need to because it provides the "attention keeping" that i don't have. i have adhd and it does help. but it may not help others :pp byee

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My son is 7bout to be 8 he has been taking vyvanse for a lol over a year..at first the med was great he was focused did all his homework no problems.
but as the months prolonged I started noticing some twerks about his behavior as he was coming down off for the day his eyes would twitch uncontrollably and he would have fits of anger r just burst out crying and the doc that prescribed him the meds siad it was just a side effect..needless to say I kept giving it to him and then the nightmares started so bad he didn't want to sleep alone and the twitching got worse. As I explained all of this to the doc she insisted it was just the side effects..tjen he got to where he didn't have an appetite none whatsoever..i would have to give him colodine just to help him "come down"..so my parents being the all naturalist they are had me read one of their books on natural medicines on ADHD..it said higher doses of fish oil the recommended amount for each individual needs could help with his ADHD..so I went to the health food store and talked with the young lady that was there and she helped out alot she also had ADHD and was prescribed the same meds..she had me drop his doses of vyvanse while also taking the supplements vitamins and I'll tell u it was hard and now he is drug free and no withdrawals all by lowering the doses each week while taking the supplements and he's has his appetite the nightmares are gone and so are the twitches..i didn't have a question just wanted to share my story..

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I agree ,adhd meds on off my whole life. I was on 70 mg by sense for almost three years. I'm done with school now ...It's been 5 months , if I could go back I wouldn't take mare than 20 mg ( despite my weight) and only for a year. I fear the long term effects , now that the short terms are done.

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Theresa, what you just said scares me, as I believe this is EXACTLY how my wife feels. I have been on 70mg of Vyvanse for almost 2 weeks now. Before that, I was on 50mg for 2 weeks. All together, I've been on Vyvanse for a little over a month. I can relate to how your husband is feeling because I too, get feelings of severe anger, irritability, hostility and resentment when the Vyvanse wears off. It's like I can't control my emotions and I can't understand why. My wife will come home from work and I'll ruin her good mood just by being in another one of my terrible moods. I love her so much and it kills me to see her get upset with the withdrawal symptoms. I feel bitter towards her and everything she does (or doesn't do) annoys the living s*** out of me. I don't know what to do at this point; take a higher dose so that I'm "chemically induced" into happiness, or back off and not feel as bad. My doctor also put me on dexostat with the 70mg of Vyvanse. Perhaps this is intensifying the effect? Just know that how your husband feels/is acting is the drug talking. Before I was on "ADD medicine," I never knew how legit the controversy is with it being a street drug. Now I know. Good luck!

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I started ADHD meds when i was only 8 years old, I was very similar to your son. I couldn't get anything done without it and it really did help. As a child, it is so important to do well in school and get grades for a bright future. I think he really should be on it if needed and when he gets older he may not need it. I am 25 now and still have ADHD. I have been off my meds since April and I am in college. I still would do better on it however with the side effects and turning to other resources , it is doable where as when I was a child I wouldnt have gotten through school without.

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My son is on 15 mg xr addrall and has been on it for a year. He can't do any school work or home work with out it he is major adhd and this is last resort. He him the most intelligent student in his class but without his meds he's the last. He needs it to learn but can't even do simple chores at home without it. I need advice how to help him. I don't want him addicted at 9 years old. Off his meds he's has no side affects but back to his normal hyper self and only getting half of everything done

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Yes I think so but I'm not a replacement for a doctor. Those withdrawl symptoms can last for like over a year for your energy to return to normal. People in NYS told me I am better off without it, they have seen folks on this med that look the same as schizophrenia. I wish your son the best of luck with getting better.

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70 mg. is a very high dose. I take 20 mg.

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...and now she's addicted to Xanax. The addiction and/or withdrawals from Xanax are deadly. Bad idea.

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I am 15 and just stopped taking this drug. Vyvnase is made with amphetamine(s) (ingredients to meth). I stopped the drug after I was taking 120 mg a day for a solid year. For about week, I had awful stomach pains, vomiting, hallucinations, and couldn't sleep at all. Surprisingly (not really) these are all symptoms of withdrawn from meth. How much of this was your son taking?

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No problem hope you feel better soon Anna
Theresa, your husband will be fine soon and your lives will be back to normal again! Just try to stay strong through this so that you can be supportive for him. I know that he will be needing you to be there for him as much as possible for the first couple of weeks, but y'all can both rest assured that things are gonna get better, and hopefully when it's all over it will bring you all closer together seeing how much you need each other and can count on each other through times like these! I'll be praying for you all and one thing I know is that God is faithfull, so be full of hope!

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Thank you for that. I really needed the reminder to push your self a little more each day. I have been catching myself just laying on the couch all day and only getting up when my daughter needs me lol. Was losing hope!

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My husband went on vyvanze about 2 yrs ago. He has now quit cold turkey and its crazy how different he is. I HOPE to heavens it only takes 2 weeks for withdrawal to be done. I think us wives need some sort of support group to know how to deal with THEIR withdrawal. I do pretty good for a couple of days, but then it's exhausting to have to be extra patient with him. I have 3 children and I would MUCH rather handle their bad days than my husbands :-(
Anyone willing to message on here for support? I'll update later and let you all know how we're doing

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Hey it really only takes a couple of weeks to 1 month. The main thing is to try and push yourself a little harder each day so your body will get used to it. The longer you let it keep you down the harder it will be.

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Can I ask how long it took
You to find energy after coming clean off pain killers .... Anything like feeling like no energy after stopping vyvanse? Anna

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Jack- I was not "alluding" to anything. I was stating the facts, as I know them, about how a prodrug works. I am not a chemist, but I understand the chemistry behind it well enough to know that it is not- as you alluded- baseless. The potential for addiction is still much lower than with quick release drugs, since it does not produce an immediate high. Perhaps it would be better to say that it reduces the chances of accidental addiction.

I have to respectfully suggest that if you were experiencing a "6+ hour high" then either you were put on too high a dose to start with, you have a sensitivity to amphetamine, or it was simply on the wrong medication for you. Or you were misdiagnosed. Stimulants have a very unique effect on the ADHD brain and most of us do not get the "high" feeling you describe at normal dosages. But each individual is unique as well and the same medication and same dosage can have a radically different effect from one person to the next.

I feel almost no effect at all from any kind of stimulant. I have taken instant release Ritalin in the past and I take Vyvanse now. I take Welbutrin as well, for my depression, which is not classified as a stimulant but has a similar effect. And I could take or leave any of them. But I have a friend who has tried every kind of medication there is to treat her ADHD and can not tolerate any of them at all. Another friend in my group takes just 5mg of Ritalin a day, which made me laugh at first because it sounded so ridiculous. But I have since learned that some people are so sensitive to stimulants that the absolute lowest dosage is all they need.

So you can't say that Vyvanse isn't safe based on your experience, any more than I can say that it is based on mine. There is simply no way to tell except to try it.

It is very important, and I can not stress this enough, to get a proper assessment and to rule out all other medical conditions (as much as possible) that could be the cause of the ADHD symptoms (thyroid disease, anxiety, diabetes, and, as mentioned in another post here, B12 deficiency, are just a few of the possibilities). Taking stimulants when you do not have ADHD is much more dangerous. What an ADHD brain needs just to function is too much for a non-ADHD brain to handle.

And this post is too much for my currently unmediated brain to handle. I have spent far too long working on it and I am beginning to get extremely frustrated. Not to mention I should have been in bed hours ago. I don't know when I am going to learn....

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Hey Penelope! First off you need to quit thinking that you need to be on a med to survive. The dr keeping you on suboxone for as long as he had is not the right thing to do. You can make it without suboxone and the last thing you want to do is start up a vyvanse addiction to go along with your suboxone addiction. Vyvanse in the long run messed up my life way worse than opiates or suboxone. Suboxone is a bad drug In itself despite what the drs say about it. The correct way to use it is to keep a patient on it for a few months then take them off. I know I'm telling you this knowing raft even myself was on it for over a year but I'm telling you so you will know that the drs are doing the wrong thing by putting patients on it and keeping them in it for long periods of time making them think they need it to survive. If your opiate receptors where messed up then you could take Vicodin or lot tabs and get no feelings whatsoever off of them. Despite what preppie say suboxone is one if the strongest opiates out there, it just works on the pleasure receptors in the brain differently therefore causing not as much high at low doses but preventing withdrawl. You are not getting withdrawl because you are basically still taking an opiate. Vyvanse my friend is a killer and if you can read all the horror stories on here about what it has done to people you can see that it clearly is something you do not need. Anyone who has a history of drug abuse will not be able to take vyvanse without developing a dependence to it bottom line. If you decide to take those you are asking for trouble. The only thing you need to survive and get your life back on track is Jesus Penelope, he is the only one who can give you a happy life, it does not come from pills and meds and I tell you this from experience . I have tried every drug in the book and until I found Jesus nothing could satisfy the emptiness I had. I'm not trying to tell you that you need to just stop everything cold turkey but I'm telling you that you need to start seeking god and not another drug. Little by little he will help you get out the bad in your life and replace it with good things that will last. I understand how terrified you are right now so I just urge you to pray to him tonight and ask him to give you strength and peace to make it through this week. I can tell you this with full confidence, if you make it the 10 days you will be without suboxone you will not need it anymore when those 19 days are up. If you decide to use the vyvanse I urge you to only use it for a few days then leave it and the suboxone alone for good and get your real life back. You can do this Penelope and I promise you Gid will help you if you will trust in him. He has delivered me from so many addictions and now I use what he has done for me to help people like you know that there is hope in being free from meds and drugs and that hope is Jesus Christ! Don't give up hope and loose that mindset that you have to have a med because you don't! You are a child of God and all you need is the life and love he has for you and it does not involve vyvanse or suboxone! Write back if you need anything!

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I just read your post although it was a couple of years ago now that it was written. I have an opiate addiction as you did for well over 10 years and have now been on suboxone for wow about 4 yrs.now.... my appointment with my Dr. Was one week ago and didnt have the funds so i nursed my last strip till thursday to go on friday only to find out when i called in hoping to see him the next day that he was leaving in an hour and would be out for 10 days, i was like HOLY S***!!! So i got money to borrow till the next day since he was leaving and i called back. I was told he was walking out of the door and would not wait 30 mins. for me. Now i'm left to suffer and detox for a week i didnt know who to blame, myself for not having the finances to make my original appointment date or him for not waiting 30 mins. for me. Anyway so back to looking for hydrcodone... my mom gave me a few which only lasted me a couple of days so I went to her for more instead of the streets only for her to tell me not to harrasse her about it, so guess I'm just on my own now ...Im thinking "I work every night and I have to pack and be out of my house in one week what the heck am I going to do"? So i knew i had taken vyvanse before and lasted me like 12 hours and it was great, so YES today I bought 10 from a random person I knew was a dealer from seeing him in and out of the place I work all night long on a daily basis. I've been reading a lot of posts since I took it. I do love how i feel when I take it, I want to do things and be around people like i used to when I was taking lortabs only this is better cause it lasts longer. Ive always felt different and out of place until I started taking meds. Everyone likes me and my personality and i'm not socialy shy like I always was as a child and teen. I am 38 now and started poppig pain pills on a regular basis since I was 20 which did begin innocently needed for pain due to Fybromyalgia Syndrome until realized i was dependent when I didn't take one day and felt like crap. So continued daily till decided to get help by getting on methadone at 32 which I hated and so now suboxone since 34. I will be taking this 70mg. vyvanse that I bought for a week till my Dr. Appointment next monday I cant help but wonder if this is what i needed all along and had never been diagnosed for ADD should I speak to Dr. Bout switching since it helps so much or should I stick to my Suboxone as long as I need to. He told me probably indeffinately because taking opiates for 10 plus years messed up my opiod recepters thats why i dont feel normal without suboxone blocking them. Sorry took up much of your time but your story is very similar to mine. I hope have time to respond with some advice. O one more thing, should i worry about addiction after one week of taking this 70mg. Vyvanse? Thanks

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