I don't think about sex as much in which I like now. I would feel that I would have to have sex just so i can hopefully have a mood change or that's all I ever thought about besides the occasional day dream or spacing out. I was always very active though just couldnt concentrate when I was younger, now that I'm 33 years old. My energy has returned I feel confident, I can socialize again ,my attention span is getting better everyday and its day 3 and I can look into people eyes now during a conversation.
. has anybody ever felt this or heard of that? It is working but the 30mg is starting to lose its pontent from day 1 but is gradually bring me into a calm focus but energy levels are up if i nee dthem or can go away if i need to sit still. it's not as strong as it was the first day. i will be going on 50mg in a few days. will see what happens.
Will somebody tell me why Ive noticed since I started Vyvanse 3 days ago that?
Question posted by Anonymous on 16 March 2012
Last updated on 8 February 2018
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Vyvanse, like all stimulant medications can effect the sex drive in one of two ways: amp it, or nuke it. Anything from extended erections to complete erectile dysfunction may occur depending on the patient. More common than not however, it's dysfunction that Vyvanse will cause. The reason you think of sex less is not related to this, however, but to the way amphetamine effects the brain. You are now in a state of ever-ready hyper-focus... think of it as the tunnel vision cops get during car chases, only it effects your mind instead of your range of vision. Stimulants can make any thought into an obsession, or at least a blinding focus, and all other thoughts are then pushed out of awareness. Your lack of sexual thought is due to your prevalence of other, all encompassing thought, which you may note also causes you to forget to eat, drink, go to the bathroom, plan ahead carefully, etc.
If you are on 30mg now, and going to 50mg, you will eventually need 70mg. I have been on doses as high as 210mg of Vyvanse and an Adderall chaser, but the I've been on stimulants for ADHD since 13 and I'm 29 now. Tolerance will develop, and I am sorry to break the news to you, but you will come to a point at which legal jurisdiction will over-ride the fading effects of the medication (as in, your doctor could lose his license if he upped your dosage any further, despite the fact your body and mind have become accustomed to the dose you are on and it is no longer effective).
ADHD stimulant drugs were meant to be used as a short-mid time period solution combined with therapy and other, non-stimulant treatment. This is because stimulants are ever-tolerance raising in nature... you will never stop adapting to the drug, so there is no effective ceiling dosage limit, only a legal one.
As an old hat at this, ask for an increase to 40mg before 50mg, and then 60 before 70... spread out the effective window at a low dose as long as you can, because if you want to maintain the benefits of Vyvanse, you can count on hitting 140mg at some point down the road, and after that point, docs get nervous about the FDA and appearance of malpractice.
thanks, what about taking it only during the week or certain days? i tried it once ,not taking it, I slept all day the next day I felt kind of sick when i had the 50mg pill like the side affect warning in which i never felt when i started this a month ago besides being thirsty and losing some weight. Bu tlike I said I do like. and what you said about the tunnel focus, that's exactly how i feel. it's like if I aint hyper basically, i cant focus, I'm anti social etc. it's like this pill doe sall of that, gives you energy , focus, confidence. by the way. i am 33 years old. I will stay at 50mg or lower and ride that out for as long as I can. I see my doctor in 2 weeks and I iwll tell her all this myself. I am worrried though, worried that one day I will have to stop or soemthing becaus eof health issues like bloodpressure or heart and will be back in my bed sleeping my life away. it seems a stimulant works, if I didnt have a stimulant I would sleep all day no matter if I had the focus
ow by the way, people at my work i htink noticed a big chnage, I didn't tell them I was on it though, they do same sometimes calm sdown or watch me.
The thing is though. I always moved faster than normal people. I'm 33 and can probably out run a 16 year. I have always been like that, but lately these past two years all I do is sleep. I was faling classes, couldnt read a sentence, couldnt look at people when they talk, so I saw a ADHD docotr, this pill makes me feel normal again but with a twist. it's like my life after all these years is actually catching up. Before soemtimes I felt imature,, it's like everything I have seen or done is starting to come into affect now where before. I just felt like a haze in a clowdy city.
I mean to say they sometimes say, "Calm down" or you have to much energy in which I always moved faster than normal people but since they havent seen the real me since I have only been working there for 6 months, it's normal fo rme, it's more like "you havent scene nothing yet" I'm actually moving not as fast as i can because I know you wont think it's normal.
Hold on. 210mg of Vyvanse? I once accidentally took a double dose of 40mg and I felt like I was having a heart attack. The most they're legally allowed to sell is 70mg.
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