Is there a drug you can switch to when adderall loses effect?

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You will find many Dr. have no clue what they are doing with the whole ADD/ADHD/AADD/AADHD- When you say "Adderall has lost effect"; you may find that your problem is with the exact wording of your script. What I mean by this is- I have been on max "Adderall" for two years. If I actually allow my pharm. to fill the script with name brand Adderall, I can guarantee you I will lose my job, a kid or two, burn down my home or play chicken with semis on the freeway just because it seems fun. I have to take 30 mg. GENERIC IMMEDIATE RELEASE AMPHETAMINE SALT COMBO TABLETS. Adderall XR or any combo of say getting my total 60 mg./daily like 3- 20mg. generics when the RX is out of my normal orange tablets and I am either swinging from a tight rope or asleep for a week. The Docs. I have seen (ongoing since I was first diagnosed and treated with Sudafed in the 4th grade{26 years}) insist that all of the stimulant medications are interchangeable and work the same. This is scary ignorance as far as I am concerned because at one point a had a great Dr. who actually studied me and once he saw that I get no "high or wired" thrill from my meds but that I actually slow way down; allowed me a flexible, high trust medication plan where he would write double scripts and have me start A.M. with my AmphSalts and then my PM dose was plain original immediate release 10mg. X's 4 tablets of Ritalin. His idea was to keep a mix up going on in my brain so I didn't hit max. dose with no effect. At one point he added a Valporic Acid script to piggyback my Ritalin. I didn't like that though because although it really helped with allowing a max absorption in my cranium, the pills only came in one size and dose so I had to take 8 horse capsules 2X's daily. That with the Ritalin dose had me feeling like I lived on pills, 24/day. When I stressed that eating pills all day was causing me to become depressed due to a constant reminder that my brain is broken and that it will not ever produce and use Dopamine the way it is meant to; He added 150MG. XR Wellbutron 2 X's daily along with the stimulant combos because WB actually does act similar with the brain. So, long and drawn out, yes. You can alternate between Adderall, Ritalin, Concerta. Focalin, generic Ritalin (Methylphenidate) AND NO GENERIC ADD/ADHD STIMULANT MEDICATIONS ARE NOT EQUAL SUBSTITUTES TO THE NAME BRAND AND EACH PERSON'S BODY PROCESSES EVEN A SIMPLE ANTACID DIFFERENTLY and the generic Adderall amphetamine salt combo. You can take an antacid with your Adderall and stay away from sodas and highly acidic foods so you get better half life and absorption levels.

I come across forums where people are snorting the crap, cooking it and mixing it with anything they can find and just know that is so freaking stupid and most likely the reason why if is very difficult for my Dr. to treat me with the medications he feels fit at the dosages he feels fit. The FDA has to babysit junkies and it sucks if you actually rely on these meds to function.