People with ADHD claim Adderall is ‘different’ now
Some of these &quot;differences&quot; can be life-threatening.<p>I&#x27;m on 30mg of generic dextroamphetamine sulfate XR per day. It evaporates my ADHD entirely, makes me feel much more comfortable and relaxed, and makes it easier to regulate emotions and stress. As a bonus it also helps me feel my emotions more readily, which I consider amazing.<p>But last time, the brand of generic that my pharmacy gave me was Actavis (owned by, guess who, Teva) instead of the Mallinckrodt that I got the first time.<p>When it first kicked in, I was in the middle of relaxing in bed and my heart just suddenly went completely insane out of nowhere. My heart rate was around 130bpm and I could not sleep at all anymore, even with generous amounts of melatonin 4+ hours before bed. My blood pressure was 180 over 130 for two days straight.<p>I eventually realized what the problem was and switched back to Mallinckrodt. My heart rate was soon okay and I could relax and sleep again, but it took around 4–5 days for my blood pressure to return to safe levels, probably because of all the bodily load that those Actavis capsules caused.<p>At my doctor&#x27;s appointment yesterday, I had my doctor explicitly forbid Actavis and then put &quot;brand medically necessary&quot; on my latest prescription <i>three times</i>, once in handwriting, requiring Mallinckrodt specifically. Hopefully I will not get the wrong meds again.<p>AFAICT, the main reason it was so dangerous is probably because I am taking 30mg daily. But either my ADHD is really that bad or I started off with a very high tolerance, because my tolerance was discovered from having to take 20mg of adderall IR for it to do anything at all. And that just so happened to be terrible badness, so I switched to pure dextroamphetamine which seems to work wonderfully.<p>But only this very specific capsule from this very specific brand. The others might literally cause me a heart attack.