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Adderall is ruining my gain...

BlackBarbie108:
Hey all,

I have a rare sleep condition and recently was prescribed Adderall to help me function during the day. It's been incredible for that and a total life changer. But I think I underestimated it's impact on my appetite.

My appetite was low-ish before, but I was still able to get a solid gain by eating extra and stuffing from time to time. But now my appetite is like nonexistent. It's doubled the effort it takes to eat past the point of fullness and decreased the desire to eat at all.

I'm starting to feel hopeless against it and don't know what to do. Forcing myself to eat when I'm not hungry results in nausea and stomach pain. But I'm desperate not to lose weight. I'm at a loss with this...

Any insight or advice would be super helpful right now 😭

Green Eyes Dose:
Get off that shit that is the #1 gateway drug that gets people eventually into opiates and amphetemines. Every junkie i know started on Xanax or Adderal first.

Munchies:
This is extremely bad advice and isn't factually correct. Adderall, like any other prescription medication, is only a problem if it isn't used as prescribed. There are many medications out there that can be harmful if misused - but *only* if they're misused.

What do you expect her to do after she stops taking it? How do you expect her to stay awake? Her doctor wouldn't have given her that if she could fix it herself with coffee and better sleep.

Green Eyes Dose:
That is utter lies and they even have boards set up to prosecute doctors for incorrectly prescribing medications and people like you claiming opiods and amphetemines arent addiction causing. I have mulitple friends who were prescribed by their doctors adderal and xanax and oxycodine and thats how they developed drug addiction programs. I am a narcoleptic who wasn't allowed to drive for years because of a sleep condition. I am very samiliar with her problem and I have a lot of dead friends with familiea who had their lives ruined because doctors prescribed them medications without considering how addicting that jacked up feeling gets to certain people. Trying to defend a drug and say it cant be a gateway drug to other drugs just because its prescribed when the #1 addiction problem in the United States is perscription drugs perscribed by a doctor is just assenine and you can tell who is heavily dosed by their reaction to this thread. If you don't have a PHD then you should not be advocating drug use when my arguememt is that its doctors with PHD's who are directly responsible for prescribing people with no previous medication use to start using medication that can eventually lead to addictions you are out of line and very inconsiderate to the millions of families like mine who hace lost loved ones because doctors prescribed them mind altering medications and theres trillions of dollara in lawsuits in US courts to back my statement up.

I watched multiple kids i grew up with go from adderals to xanax then to oxys or different amphetemines then once they cant afford it straight into black tar heroin then fentanyl. Don't talk about this stuff on a fetish website if you don't want traumatized people to be outspoken. Just because you have not lost anyone to this doesn't mean others havent!


You are derailing the thread. If you feel that strongly about it, then post about it on another thread. This is not what this thread is about.
1 year

Adderall is ruining my gain...


Green Eyes Dose:
That is utter lies and they even have boards set up to prosecute doctors for incorrectly prescribing medications and people like you claiming opiods and amphetemines arent addiction causing.


No one said they weren't. What was said was that they ARE medically necessary for some people. The literal effect of medical amphetamines (which are not the same as recreational methamphetamine) for those who actually need them is vastly different than those who are actual drug-seekers. We know this for medical fact. My prescription is for ADHD which is more or less caused by (or presumed to be) deficincies in dopamine and norepinephrine. Medical amphetamines solve that problem.

Addiction is a disease often dependent on factors such as our brain chemicals. So is ADHD, and so are sleep disorders like OP discussed. No two brains are the same. Therefore, what people respond to and may be inclined to become dependent on vary wildly from person to person.

That is WHY Adderall is so heavily controlled. Because of people like you who literally do not know what they're talking about.

These are basic medical facts, and it is not your place to come trauma dump on a woman seeking advice about her appetite because she's prescribed a medication that is otherwise affecting her positively with intended results *as it was designed to do*
1 year

Adderall is ruining my gain...

BlackBarbie108:
Hey all,

I have a rare sleep condition and recently was prescribed Adderall to help me function during the day. It's been incredible for that and a total life changer. But I think I underestimated it's impact on my appetite.

My appetite was low-ish before, but I was still able to get a solid gain by eating extra and stuffing from time to time. But now my appetite is like nonexistent. It's doubled the effort it takes to eat past the point of fullness and decreased the desire to eat at all.

I'm starting to feel hopeless against it and don't know what to do. Forcing myself to eat when I'm not hungry results in nausea and stomach pain. But I'm desperate not to lose weight. I'm at a loss with this...

Any insight or advice would be super helpful right now 😭


I went to WebMD and found this:

www.webmd.com/add-adhd/tips-reduce-adult-adhd-medication-side-effects
1 year

Adderall is ruining my gain...

BlackBarbie108:
Hey all,

I have a rare sleep condition and recently was prescribed Adderall to help me function during the day. It's been incredible for that and a total life changer. But I think I underestimated it's impact on my appetite.

My appetite was low-ish before, but I was still able to get a solid gain by eating extra and stuffing from time to time. But now my appetite is like nonexistent. It's doubled the effort it takes to eat past the point of fullness and decreased the desire to eat at all.

I'm starting to feel hopeless against it and don't know what to do. Forcing myself to eat when I'm not hungry results in nausea and stomach pain. But I'm desperate not to lose weight. I'm at a loss with this...

Any insight or advice would be super helpful right now 😭
I don't really have any advice but I do sympathize with your situation. The medication i take for diabetes has the same effect. It's very effective for controlling my blood sugars, but the side effect is frustrating. I suppose one thought I've had is to eat smaller amounts more often to counteract the effect, but that isn't always practical. Hope you find a good solution.
1 year
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