Posted by minniebabe_2000 on March 18, 2010, at 13:25:00
In reply to Re: Vyvanse - sex drive / anxiety..., posted by rjlockhart04-08 on March 14, 2010, at 11:55:03
I've been taking Vyvanse for about 3 weeks now. I could tell an immediate difference in the way I think and act. My mind is not racing all day long. I have energy and am motivated to get things done so I can lay down and sleep and night. I can stay asleep as opposed to before when I had trouble falling asleep and staying asleep. I get so comfortable in my bed that I do have trouble wanting to wake up but no problems once I climb out of bed. I have been smoking more and plan to quit in the near future. The doctor said he will help me after he sees how I react to Vyvanse. I went through years of being misdiagnosed with anxiety, depression, and bipolar. My brother has been diagnosed ADD/ADHD since 6yrs old and I thought that you had to be dumb and extremely hyper like him. Hence, I never made the conncection that I could even be ADD because I feel I'm an inteligent and non-hyper person. I stumbled across my discovery by mistake when I was having an extreme "episode" and looked up my brother's medication to see what it is used to treat. Then I was directed to the symptoms and I had ALL of them. When I went to the doctor (whom had never seen me before, and is the only one my insurance covers near me), he didn't believe me and accused me of trying to get pills for illegal uses. I told him to look at my medical history and the medications prescribed and he would see that I've had a long history of problems and I believe I was misdiagnosed. First he informed me that only 3% of adults have ADD (boy is he way off) and the symtptoms don't appear overnight. He finally agreed to give me a 1 month prescription and I'm supposed to go back and report my progress. I feel confident and my mood has increased and I almost always feel happy. And when I do feel sad, it's a short-lived experience. My sex drive has increased dramatically and I believe it was due to psychological reasons which Vyvanse has helped me with. I feel normal for the first time in my life. It was like puting glasses on for the first time and seeing clearly. I only hope that the doctor will see that this has helped my situation dramatically and let me continue taking it.
My symptoms included:
*Struggle w/anger,frustration,irritable w/moodswings, depression, anxiety, tension
*Overreacting to critcism, low-self esteem
*History of problems that medication didn't help
such as depression, anxiety, and told I may be bipolar due to moodswings & irritability
*Trouble w/motivation, procrastination,organization
*Insomnia,constant leg shaking where people always asked me if I was nervous/anxious about something
*Low sex-drive,no energy
*Impulsiveness-(risky behavior), 7 car accidents which over 1/2 were my fault (this symptom was one that made me realize whoa..it was my a ha moment), roadrage
*Forgetful, clumsy, running into things, dropping things
*Hyperfocus(that was the 2nd a ha moment)
*Constant daydreaming and wandering all day and during conversations, problems remembering conversations, dates, and appointments
*Being withdrawn and drowning myself in quiet activities and wanting to be left alone.
*Genetics-my brother previously diagnosed
My Side Effects:
*Diarehha in the morning, in the evening it returns to normal-only when medicine kicks into my intestinal tract do I get the diarehha
*Headache
*Loss of appetite but returns at night when comming down from medicine and if I'm hungry I am able to eat, for instance if I didn't eat much the day before. I also sometimes forget to eat until the medicine wears off and I feel hungry b/c I'm not compulsively thinking about food like before
*The rest of the side-effects are positive and definetly outweigh the few minor ones
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