I saw your thread, and thought you may be able to give me some insight on the situation I'm in. I copied and pasted my "introduction" post below.
"This is my first post, so I apologize in advance if this is the incorrect place to put this.
Either way, I was diagnosed with ADHD roughly 3 months ago and prescribed Adderall IR 10mg- 2x daily. I immediately noticed a difference, so did my employer and family. In a positive way! With that being said, after the first couple of weeks on it I got relocated for work and had to move to a different state. That 3 day weekend when we moved instead of taking my prescribed dose I took 60/80mg daily. So the following week, I stopped taking them completely in fear I was abusing the crap out of them and had built a tolerence. Once we got settled in down here, I found a new doctor and he switched my meds to focalin XR 25mg. The first day I started the new RX, I noticed the effects rather quickly and seemed better than adderall. But after 2 or so hours it wore off and made me rather tired. So I looked up every way imaginable to potentate or help me get through the afternoon without being tired and to regain my focus. Nothing much worked. When my new doctor switched me to focalin I still had some adderall in my previous RX and decided to take that in the afternoon when needed. That helped substantially. But I quickly ran out of the left over adderall. So I thought it would be a good idea to look up ways to convert my focalin XR to IR - and read that crushing the beads would do this for me. So I started taking 1 25mg focalin XR in the morning and some crushed powder (just on my tongue) in the afternoon. Again, this seemed to help but not much. --- due to a learning curve with opening the capsule and crushing the beads, I lost a handful of pills. I have a rather busy next couple of days with work, and only 3 pills to work with - and my doctors appointment is in 7 days.
I got my hands on some vicodine 10mg (this has helped me in the past with energy) - my plan for the next couple of days to make these pills last to get through work is to open the focalin capsule and take some unbroken beads in the morning (for the XR effect) - some crushed focalin powder. Some vicodine when I get tired and more crushed focalin powder when I need to be focused. Obviously this is most likely not the best use of the pills I have, does anybody have any suggestions on the most effective way to use what I have.
In 3 days I plan to take a "drug holiday" absolutely no drugs-- because I no I haven't taken my medications as prescribed at all. They genuinely do help a lot. For my drug holiday I plan to go to a hotel, and completely cleanse my body. To try and lower my tolerence. I've done some research and complied some supplements and a plan for day 1;
Orange juice, vitamin c tabs, melatonin, super healthy foods, foot detox, magnesium, 5-htp, sleep,WATER, Delsym (dxm), l-tyrosine, exercise, zinc, "L-methionine" ,l-theanine, mental-reset sublingual, recover clean, and full body cleanse liquid.
Day 1
Morning - orange juice, water, magnesium, l-tyrosine, recovery clean, cleanse shot, vitamin overload, and breakfast
-Foot detox, sauna suite
-hot bath
-Lunch, supplements
-hard workout with sauna suite
-foot detox, sauna suite
-hot bath
-meal, vitamin c tabs, orange juice, l-tyrosine, magnesium
** any suggestions on the best way to go about this 3 day cleanse with the supplements I have?
The morning after 3 day cleanse is when I see my doctor, how do I go about explaining the issue I'm having with the focalin wearing off so quickly. Is it normal for it to wear off in 2 hours and feel tired the rest of the day? I could be wrong but in my opinion something to try would be XR in the morning and an IR Around noon and possibly in the evening around 4 when I'm working late.
I'm sorry for the long, scattered post. Any Advice on on these topics is greatly appreciated!! "
