on vyvanse 50 mg for 3 days now.......

[holly20092]

I was just diagnosed with add/adhd on tuesday......the doctor was great and spent 1 hour explaining everything to me.....I took my first full capsule full today at 7:15 am......The medicine worked great I went right into work and did not hesitate on getting things done......I ate a big breakfast as the physicain had told me to do.....I did have a small carmel frappe with breakfast and also drank some mountain dew......I noticed at about 3 pm I started to feel clamy and a little out of it, my coworkers stated i looked like it was 4 am and i was zombied out.....but they said the first half of the day i was doing great and they noticed improvement in me....I describe it myself as finally feeling like my body is keeping up with my brain, I did not feel so Scattered brained and i actually thought before doing things......I actually had to step in the fresh air when I felt clamy and get a few deep breaths and finally after about a hour or so I started to feel better again.......So what is this I experienced? and how do I know if this 50 mg is the right dose? I am so scared of this drug but he assured me that this is one of the best adhd drugs out and is most effective I do notice just a tiny decrease in appetite but nothing concerning    what should I do and what are your thoughts on this?

[Sandman2]

    great news!   glad to hear it working like it should.

[holly20092]

I wanted to give everyone and updat I dad a tapering up daosage and yesterday attempted the full pill as directed and I did great ;) No panic attacks and etc. and it seemed to work for about 14 hours.......I did set my phone to eat something small every 4 hours and I cut out All mountain dew and only drank like vitamin water and a little pepsi.....So I think it was a matter of getting introduced to the med and NOT drinking large amounts of caffeine.......For once in a long time i was able to focus on the house chores and complete every task i started woith no problems......usually I start on the kitchen then end up mmoving to a bathroom and forgetting about the kitchen, and my hardest thing at home was getting the laundry done because i was literally so inpatient I could not stand to wait for the clothes to get done washing and drying so i would start to do something else and forget competley about the laundry.....I hope that tomorrow at work i am able to be just as efficent as i was at home this weekend!!  I follow up with my doctor in a week!    My husband said he is impressed he always thought I was bipolar but I told him i am not depressed in any way and I was just scattered brain, and now he believes me.....The doc wants my husband to come to my next visit so he can see how he thinks the med is working and if he notices any changes.........

[rockinrobin32]

My daughter took this one..(ONE DAY)  She was mean as a snake that day (very ill tempered) and she had involuntary movements on top of this.  She had eye twitches, weird hand movements..it was wild.  Luckily I'd kept her home from school this day she started the meds so I could observe her every move...so glad I did!  In the afternoon she had the worst stomache pains she said.  I called the dr.  he said..no more for her.

Ask your doctor about Daytrana patches.  They are amazing! :O)

[holly20092]

Yes he is actually a great doctor, he has actually had adhd for 11 years and uses vyvanse as well and he knows from experience what could happen i am charting all my sxs as they happen and me and my husband will go over all of it when we go in.......the sxs last time started after lunch which was weird so I will keeep you posted on what he says.

[Sandman2]

    ya, my first thought was that 50mgs was a bit much to start with.  Makes more sense now.  He may have not wanted to get a full prescription of say 30, and then have to up it.  I would write down what you take so you can chart it.  It will take some trial and error.
   I thought maybe you had skipped lunch which could have caused that feeling.  Guessing that it was more the reaction to the full capsule.  Think it might be easier to deal with a 4th to start with.  And if you don't notice any effect, I'd probably wait till the next day to up the dose.
   Sounds like you have a good doctor.  Don't worry about communicating with him.  Its important at the start.  It sounds like he has experience working with adults, so he will be able to tell you what is going on.   Best wishes!

[holly20092]

Yes I had boston market at 1 pm and then we had pizza at about 7:30 pm.......The psychartist had told me to brek open the capsule and gradually take little at a time to inturduce my self but by day 3 or 4 to ry a full capsule.....I think I will only do like 1/8 of a capsule and work from there again.......I fell asleep at about 10:30 and awoke again at 1:30 wide awake but I took some melatonin so hopefully I am back asleep soon......I actually am a nurse and I checked my pulse often today and it stayed between 110-122.....

[Sandman2]

   Did you have a decent lunch?