u/Fit-Jicama3518

Currently prescribed 25 mg XR and a 10 mg IR for the afternoon. The 25 mg XR seem to do nothing but make me awake or have weird side effects. I might have about an hour of motivation about 1.5 hours after taking it, but that’s it.

Once I take the IR in the afternoon I finally feel like I can focus. I decided to take 20 mg of my IR this morning in place of the XR and the difference is crazy. I feel like it lasts longer too. I’m wondering if it’s worth asking for 2 x 20 mg IRs per day instead of the XR.

I stopped taking Adderall about 6 years ago and started again in February. The XRs used to be great and would last the entire day. I’m hoping they will go back to the way they were or atleast close to it in the near future. I’m assuming once I start seeing good things being said about them here I can always go back?

I was getting my scripts filled with ANI 20 mg XR for a while, and it started to feel ineffective so I was excited to see on the CVS app that I was getting filled a different brand, Amneal. I wish I had never even complained about ANI.

To start, the amount of anxiety I felt was unbearable. About 3 hours after taking it, I felt more out of it than I would if I was unmedicated. My short term memory almost felt like it was non-existent. I was forgetting what I was talking about mid-sentence. I was forgetting about emails and couldn’t remember what someone had just asked me to do. I couldn’t even remember what I was working on, or what I had was supposed to even get done that day. I even almost tried to plug in my phone with my car keys when I was leaving work…

To top it all off, I was depressed, completely irritable, frustrated and angry. I was overreacting to almost everything. I started crying because I forgot to start the dishwasher.

I would end up lying in bed at night once it was pretty much worn off and analyzing my reactions and visible bad mood during the day. I felt so embarrassed.

It felt like I was drunk all day in all of the worst ways and then dealing with hangxiety at night.

It’s scary. What are they putting in these medications that cause people to react like this???