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5 year adderall/vyvanse addiction, is it too late?

apples1991

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Hey, to be short and sweet I've been addicted to adderall and vyvanse mainly vyvanse for 5 years this month. I'm 24 and in great shape..I just graduated with my masters and kicked the addies, well, trying.

My addiction was at absolute worse like a 30 x 50 mg vyvanse script and .30 x 10 mg addy script lasting me like 17 days..u do math.. up until last Jan 2014 where I began most months going through a 30 x 20mg sexy script in 8 days and then getting my vyvanse and taking 100 mg at min normally 150 mg upping to 250 mg in a day which I've only done twice to this day. Since this January it's gotten a lot worse I have taken a max of 200mg addy one time and stayed up for 2 days that sucked hard. Most vyvanse was shortly thereafter I took 400 mg vyvanse one time and probably stayed up two days too. on avg in these months it was using 17 days/month going through a 20mg addy script and a 50 mg vyvanse script.

-side note:worst semester of my academic life while doing so.

I can't hide it anymore from my employer, family, and in my social life and I want to go to NA but my thing here is have I likely(& obviously everyone is different) done permanent damage to my heart, kidneys, liver? I mean dumb question from someone who Clearly would deserve so but I know what I was stupid, I just..justified 'its just adderall'...

I work out 5/6 days a week(weightlifting) and smoked when I was younger from 18-20.5 and haven't since. I don't drink much, never done any other drugs but addies, pot, and alcohol Also don't take any prescriptions but just got put on wellbutrin to quit.

I used to read people's posts on here like DAMN that dudes fudged up(for lack of a better word) taking 150 mg addies in a day, And now I'm that guy. I know this will only get worse unless I act.

Btw excuse my 8th grade typing as I'm coming down from addies and am on my phone. Also there is a lot more to this story so ask away I didn't want to write an autobiography.

Thx
 
Its never too late..of course there can always be damage done and most of it will heal but the best day to stop was yesterday..any problems will only get worse..im an opiate guy so i cant really help u with stim withdrawal..good luck brother..
 
Thanks a lot and yea I want to stop now. I'm finally ready to take all those steps I just guess my biggest fear is what those around me will think of me once I start really trying and putting myself in a vulnerable situation in so afraid of.
 
hi buddy, I hope you're doing okay. I have been on addies,vyvanse,strataira ext...since i was 8 years old, now I am 21 and those are not strong enough anymore no matter how many I take. so I moved up to meth. you do not want this trust me, you need to quit now, before you turn out like me. And trust me it will happen eventually. honestly you need to quit cold turkey and it will suck for a week maybe 2 but it'll be worth it in the end. I feel for you and hope you can fight this. Let me know how it ends up.
 
your family will be proud of you, and your friends if they're your friends will be proud of you. they will fight for you and every and any way they can. you can do this brother.
 
No, it's not too late. However, as NA literature will tell you, "There is no cure for drug addiction." (And in all fairness to NA is followed by, "However, it can at some point be arrested, and recovery is then possible.")
 
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