r/VyvanseADHD

I took a break from taking vyvanse and I managed to stop binging for a couple of days. But my binges returned after those days and I couldn’t go a single day without binge eating. I personally don’t know how to go about not binging without vyvanse. I was trying my 1 hour delays but I had such a hard time committing to that. I feel like I have a ravenous appetite without vyvanse and I’m just losing hope in recovery at all.

So I’d like to know if people out there have recovered from binge eating after stopping vyvanse.

What is your favorite thing to do on your days off from work? I don’t know what it is, but i usually don’t find building things for fun until I start playing a game. I enjoy Farm Sim 25. I wake up extra early, take my medicine, and just hyper focus on building a property on one of my maps. There are other things away from screen time I do to relax but something about building things on a game just hits all those relax points. Idk why. I wish I had the drive to physically build things. But obviously it takes more physical time and money. I feel much happier when I can imagine and build with the push of a button.

What does your day off consist of when you relax?

I’m trying not to be too excited at how just like… regulated / good I feel. Not too anxious. Not too sleepy. Not “high” or crashing. Pretty motivated and focused… currently on 1mg of guanfacine at night and 40 of generic vyvanse in the morning. Then 10 mg generic adderall as needed. (I’m an adult woman)

There is hope :-)

Walgreens just updated their prescription ordering software. Until now if your dr send a Vyvanse order to a Walgreens location and they were out of pills your dr had to send a new prescription to what ever Walgreen location you found d that had a supply.

The pharmacist just told me they updated there system so they can just move the prescription to a different location.

This saves a lot of frustration tracking down your monthly supply before the dr writes the prescription

My doc prescribed me Vyvanse and didn’t tell me SHIT on what I need to do/be mindful of to actually get the most out of these meds. What do y’all do with food/routine/movement/supplements???

First time poster, long time lurker. Currently on 40mg a day. I accidentally double dosed yesterday. I don't feel too bad but today I feel like I'm on a comedown.

Took my normal dose today and had about 3 hours of intense anxiety that started about 3 hours after I took my dose.

It's now evening and I feel like total crap.

Is this normal? Can I expect to feel better tomorrow? I start a new job tomorrow and don't want to feel like this.

i was on 40mg caps of generic from aug 17th-sep4th? ish? and took one 20mg cap maybe a week later but i can still hardly stand to eat? im curious as to how long it took for others appetites to normalize after stopping (especially considering i wasn't even on it a full month!!!) because this is getting to be unmanageable :(

Does anyone else notice that whether your day is good - in terms of executive functioning and getting shit done - largely depends on what the medication “catches” you doing…?
What I mean is, if my Vyvanse starts kicking in while I’m starting to study, it feels easier to study for the rest of the day. I don’t mean studying for hours straight with no interruptions, just that when I eventually stop, go do something else and then come back to it, there’s much less of a friction.
On the other hand if it starts coming into effect while I’m in bed, showering, cooking, talking to someone - doing literally anything other than cognitive demanding tasks - when I eventually go try to study or read something more dense it’s really hard, it feels like I missed the “time window”, the ship has sailed.
Before anyone asks - I’ve been on this medication for around 1 year and 8 months.

I'm an adult with ADHD and I've gone 50 → 60 → 70mg on Elvanse. I'm planning to retest 60 with my prescriber and wanted to hear other people's experiences first.

50mg was honestly some of my best functioning. I could start things, read and actually take it in, and steer my attention instead of just locking onto stuff. I went up because it didn't last long enough.

60mg felt subtle, to the point where I kept thinking it had worn off. But my notes say I was reading, fact-checking things, doing a 42 minute phone call, and getting back to tasks after getting sidetracked. One day I spent 8-9 hours mostly on one thing while still eating. Some mild irritation and a bit of daydreaming though.

70mg gave me the best initiation and productivity, so I decided it was my dose. But once I got my sleep, food, water and routine consistent, it looked different. The peak is jittery, rushed and tired-but-wired. That settles and it gets smooth, but old reward habits (repetitive researching, that kind of thing) are stronger and get way more focus than they did on lower doses. It's not like being unmedicated, because I still have better awareness, switching and finishing things. It feels more like the old habits are getting extra attention power.

My guess is 70 is above my sweet spot, and bad sleep was hiding it. I know the inverted-U idea fits, but that's a group-level model, not proof for me.

What I'm testing is 60mg with everything else kept the same, for a week or two, ignoring the first few days. I'm tracking initiation, finishing things, task switching, mood, how the peak feels, how long it really lasts, and the habit pull, including when it shows up (near the peak or as it wears off) and whether I can stop something rewarding at a time I set.

Caveats: it's unblinded, it's just me, and I've already flipped from "70 is perfect" to "70 is too much", so I'm treating it as a hypothesis. The habits might just be more visible now rather than caused by the dose. And I don't want to fix the shorter duration by raising the morning dose. I'm doing this with my prescriber, not solo.

Questions:
Has anyone had a higher dose give great productivity but boost compulsive or reward-seeking stuff even after the jitters passed?
Did stepping down help, and did you lose motivation or follow-through?
How did you tell "dose too high" apart from "habits just more noticeable now"?
If a lower dose didn't last, what worked for duration?
Any tracking methods that helped you judge a dose objectively?

Thanks, any experiences welcome.