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Quit Adderall / Vyvanse after 5+ years of consistent use. Taking Qs.
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Date: August 15th, 2025 3:07 PM Author: unhygienic gay melvin It's been about 1.5 months. I've been meaning to make a more detailed thread about it. Instead of drafting a long tome on the experience, I elect, instead, to do a "taking Qs" thread and provide my breakdown piecemeal.
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Date: August 15th, 2025 3:09 PM Author: place feels done how did u get rx
describe your apotheosis over the years, body high etc does it actyually make u smarter |
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Date: August 15th, 2025 4:56 PM Author: unhygienic gay melvin "how did u get rx" First got one in UG from a super-shady doctor. After that it was always easy AF. Just find a random psych on insurance company's website, go in, say I used to take it but stopped, and get the script. Didn't start having prescriptions or taking it regularly until my 30s though. In hindsight, I largely "needed" it to make up for my multi-day hangovers that used to generally last through Wednesday back before I had kids and used to party.
"describe your apotheosis over the years, body high etc" I only took 40mg of Vyvance (equivalent to ~15 mg of adderall) + occasional 5mg Adderall "booster." Never had a body high or anything. Never took more than that. Would either take weekends fully off, one day of the weekend off, or significantly lower dose on weekends. Never took full daily dose 7 days per week.
"does it actyually make u smarter" No. It just makes boring shit exciting. I would sort of look into getting into work in the morning with a moderate addy high and getting shit done. Caused me to waste plenty of time -- eg. spend 2 hours on something I should have spend 30 minutes on. On balance, though, it did make me more productive. |
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Date: August 15th, 2025 5:02 PM Author: place feels done Just find a random psych on insurance company's website? qrd? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762780&forum_id=2#49188496) |
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Date: August 15th, 2025 5:06 PM Author: unhygienic gay melvin Quality, Reliability, Durability? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762780&forum_id=2#49188503) |
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Date: August 15th, 2025 5:07 PM Author: place feels done You just find a dude on a site, become his patient, and ramble about coming off it, dont they check ur history? Also it means quick rundown |
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Date: August 15th, 2025 5:11 PM Author: unhygienic gay melvin Yeah. Is this not how everyone does it? Seems like the obvious way to me -- and I'm not even sure of any other way. Worked the total of maybe 4-5 times I did it between UG and when I got my latest doc a few years ago. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762780&forum_id=2#49188517) |
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Date: August 15th, 2025 4:02 PM Author: jew hater what's it like being a retard? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762780&forum_id=2#49188373) |
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Date: August 15th, 2025 4:57 PM Author: unhygienic gay melvin Can't speak on being just a retard, but I can say that being gay and retarded is 180. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762780&forum_id=2#49188487) |
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Date: August 15th, 2025 5:13 PM Author: he who guards the fig will eat its fruit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762780&forum_id=2#49188520) |
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Date: August 15th, 2025 4:59 PM Author: sam hyde inseminating boner police's mouth via gjr why did you decide to stop? have you noticed permanent changes? |
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Date: August 15th, 2025 5:04 PM Author: unhygienic gay melvin "why did you decide to stop?" Mostly because it became extremely hard to get because of shortages. I got my last prescription in March or some shit and was never able to fill it. If I dedicated 5 hours a day to it and called the doc a hundred times to move the script between pharmacies, maybe I could have gotten it filled. I had stock built up, so I had enough for a while. I never ran out, but when I had a week long vacation at the start of July I stopped taking it. No significant withdrawls and when I started work back up a week later, I barely noticed a difference compared to when I was on it.
(I think this might be because, as a result of the Vyvanse shortage, the pills I had been taking were underpowered AF.)
"have you noticed permanent changes?" No. I was fine the first week I was off, and going back to work ~10 days after stopping was totally fine. (Keep in mind, I was taking much less than a lot of other people who take it -- just the equivilant to 15mg of Adderal / day with 1-2 day breaks every week.
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Date: August 15th, 2025 5:05 PM Author: philosemitic antizionist (slop til you drop) Is it harder to get things done without it? Do you feel smarter or dumber now?
I used to take it for school but stopped because the come downs made me extremely depressed.
Without it I'm aimless. With it I get stuck on unimportant tasks. Overall better without it. |
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Date: August 15th, 2025 5:10 PM Author: unhygienic gay melvin "Is it harder to get things done without it?" Yeah. Odly enough, the busier I am the less the meds mattered. When am really busy with urgent shit, I am going to get it done no matter what. The hard part is when there's nothing big/urgent on my plate -- but there are a million small things or small parts of long term projects to do. Now that I'm mature, I'm ontop of everything though.
"Do you feel smarter or dumber now?" Same. Just less "in the zone" for lots of boring shit.
"Overall better without it." Agreed. For me this is especially because I now have MUCH MUCH more energy in the evenings and on the weekends. On Amphetamines, I would be tired AS FUCk when I got off work. Now I have decent energy for a few hours afterwards.
Same for the weekends because I wouldnt take it (or would take much less). I basically spent the weekends the past 5 years being tired/lethargic as fuck, but just using willpower to power through. |
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Date: August 15th, 2025 5:17 PM Author: philosemitic antizionist (slop til you drop) I feel better not on it. I avoid doing boring shit. My goal is to productive enough others can do my busiwork. #dreamz (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762780&forum_id=2#49188531) |
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Date: August 15th, 2025 5:18 PM Author: unhygienic gay melvin Same. Overall feel MUCH better on it. I miss the "rush" when it kicked in every morning.
But by maybe 2pm I was back to baseline, and by ~5pm I was significantly worse off as compared to not being on it at all. |
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Date: August 15th, 2025 5:36 PM Author: philosemitic antizionist (slop til you drop) The crashes are awful and made me suicidal and anhedonic (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762780&forum_id=2#49188606) |
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Date: August 15th, 2025 5:07 PM Author: Gefilte Fish Vindaloo How much worse are your teeth now vs before using (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762780&forum_id=2#49188505) |
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Date: August 15th, 2025 5:15 PM Author: unhygienic gay melvin Same. I've never had a cavity. Still have my wisdom teeth.
Never really took enough to have any dry mouth or anything like that. Plus Vyvanse is better than Adderall in that regard. |
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Date: August 15th, 2025 5:09 PM Author: cucumbers have you ever taken Concerta/Ritalin (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762780&forum_id=2#49188511) |
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Date: August 15th, 2025 5:13 PM Author: unhygienic gay melvin Only Ritalin, recreationally. Ritalin is actually CR recreationally. The "high" is not great, but it's great as a relatively fast-acting stim. Something inbewteen cocaine and adderall in terms of half-life. Take it purely for a ~2 hour energy boost that wont fuck up your sleep too much. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762780&forum_id=2#49188524) |
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Date: August 15th, 2025 5:20 PM Author: unhygienic gay melvin Quick note on my seemingly nonexistant "withdraws" and easy transition off.
I take a SHIT LOAD of Nicotine, which I speculate helped.
I also upped my Caffiene intake bigly when I got off. Probably also helped a little.
I also always consistently excercise every day, eat healthy AF, sleep well, etc. |
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Date: August 15th, 2025 5:21 PM Author: painfully awkward, arrogant introvert tp Generic or brand name vyvanse? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762780&forum_id=2#49188541) |
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Date: August 15th, 2025 5:22 PM Author: unhygienic gay melvin Started off Generic, but when the shortages started a year or two ago I switched to name brand.
Never noticed a difference. |
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Date: August 15th, 2025 5:22 PM Author: luis (luis) any caffeine consumption now? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762780&forum_id=2#49188545) |
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Date: August 15th, 2025 5:23 PM Author: unhygienic gay melvin Yeah.
~1000mg of Caffiene per day.
Plus around 150mg of Nicotine. |
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Date: August 15th, 2025 5:25 PM Author: cucumbers income and net worth? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762780&forum_id=2#49188559) |
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Date: August 15th, 2025 5:28 PM Author: unhygienic gay melvin Income: ~400k (Inhouse wagecuck poormo) NW: ~3MM Age: Late 30s. |
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Date: August 15th, 2025 5:35 PM Author: powerfully online so your receptors or so blown out from the amphetamine use you now need high doses of two legal stimulants to replace the habit. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762780&forum_id=2#49188602) |
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Date: August 15th, 2025 6:14 PM Author: luis (luis) A certain “chill” 10 cups of coffee and 15 pouches of zyn /day habit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762780&forum_id=2#49188686) |
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Date: August 15th, 2025 8:55 PM Author: unhygienic gay melvin Before quitting the Vyvanse / addy, I was doing the same amount of Nicotine and about 500mg of caffeine. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762780&forum_id=2#49188997) |
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Date: August 15th, 2025 5:44 PM Author: luis (luis) Wow Lmao. That’s a lot of caffeine and nicotine (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762780&forum_id=2#49188611) |
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Date: August 15th, 2025 8:56 PM Author: unhygienic gay melvin I don't notice any downsides.
I do plan on cutting my caffeine back down next time I'm off of work for a week or so.
We'll probably cut nicotine down by about half as well.
Going to give it a few more months though at least. |
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Date: August 15th, 2025 5:26 PM Author: kikerosoft turd Apply for SSDI now because the process takes a long time.
Your brain is fucked and you will never be employable again. |
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Date: August 15th, 2025 5:29 PM Author: unhygienic gay melvin See above. I stopped cold turkey at the start of a week long vacation -- had no problems coming off -- and was perfectly fine and productive when I started work back up ~9 days later. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762780&forum_id=2#49188579) |
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Date: August 15th, 2025 5:45 PM Author: kikerosoft turd I hadn’t seen how little you were taking when I poasted.
Heavy users who stop are basically lobotomized. Know several such cases, very sad shit. |
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Date: August 15th, 2025 5:26 PM Author: alpha+outgoing 24/7 thingdoer introvert (gunneratttt) can you send me your leftovers? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762780&forum_id=2#49188570) |
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Date: August 15th, 2025 5:30 PM Author: unhygienic gay melvin No. I have something like ten 40 mg Vyvanse, and something like fifty 5mg adderalls. I plan on using them recreationally for things like bachelor parties, etc. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762780&forum_id=2#49188586) |
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Date: August 15th, 2025 6:52 PM Author: Take a look at the lawman beating up the wrong guy How are you earning 400k in house as a late 30 year old. I call flame. I know lots of 40 somethings making like $350 with bonus max. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762780&forum_id=2#49188771) |
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Date: August 15th, 2025 7:31 PM Author: scholarship Nice. I would binge adderall hard as fuck during exams with modafinil caffeine, aspirin, etc. to the point of complete delirium and cram a whole class into 24-48 hours. Probably unhealthy. Don’t take it at all now. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762780&forum_id=2#49188851) |
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Date: August 15th, 2025 7:50 PM Author: Fuck XII What's your dose? I know certain doses are hard to get, but it's bizarre to me that a shortage is why you're quitting (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762780&forum_id=2#49188898) |
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Date: August 15th, 2025 8:45 PM Author: .,..,..,.,,..,..,,,,,,,,..,...,.,.,., I quit too because I love drinking on stims but it was a bad combination for me that led to weight gain and probably wasn't good for the heart (I'd take a vyvanse in the morning and then IR addy at night). Thankfully only did it for a few months. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762780&forum_id=2#49188984) |