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Adderall XR and surgery

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Roger Gould, M.D. - Mental Health, Wellness

Questions posted in the Mental Health forum are being answered by Dr. Roger L. Gould, author of the Mastering Stress and Depression program and affiliated with the UCLA. Department of Psychiatry. Topics covered include anger, attention deficit disorder (ADD), bipolar disorder, dementia, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), learning disabilities, memory, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), panic, personality disorders, phobias, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), schizophrenia, stress, transitions, and work problems.

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Adderall XR and surgery

by lettuce323, May 26, 2007 12:00AM

Tags: deficit, mental, Health, Attention Deficit Disorder, Mental Health, coagulation, dose, Medicine, nervous, procedure, reading, sympathetic, Work

Hi All,

I was wondering if anyone knew if Adderall XR has any affects on surgery? Does it interfere with coagulation? I will be having surgery in two weeks and my MD recommended that I taper my dose down before the procedure. I still have to work and find it exrememly difficult to get anything done without taking the medicine. I am on 20mg once per day.

Thank you for anyone's feedback. :)

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by Roger Gould, M.D.

, May 28, 2007 12:00AM

In this case, its your surgeon's recommendation you should follow. Since adderall effects the sympathetic nervous system it probably creates some additional challenge to your body during surgery, which has a large effect on that same aspect of your bodily functioning.

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by FlirtyFreda, Jun 02, 2007 12:00AM

To: LETTUCE323

Did you find out anything re; Adderall and surgery? I have to have feet surgery soon and am on Adderall and I am on this forum because i am so sick as i am weening off Lexapro right now and reading your post thinking oh great i am soon to go through this sick feeling again when i have to lower the dose of Adderall for my surgery.

So i am curious to know what you found out and why to you need to lower the does before surgeries?

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