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Q: Vyvanse side effects ?
asked by: kisatchie on March 5th, 2009
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DISCLAIMER: not sure how others will feel about this, i know a lot of people see this as abuse, and it probably is, but it helped me . i am not interested in chastising comments about how you may feel about how i used vyvanse, i did it, it happened, please deal with it.

on Tuesday at 6pm i took 70mg of vyvanse that was my friend's . I needed to study for a midterm and he told me it would help. I started studying at 5 AM and managed to go to sleep at 8AM. i was wide awake at 8AM but my body was soooo weak. very, very weird.

All that megacharged studying worked wonders. I blazed through all of the material required for the midterm even though i began studying the day before, and on wednesday when i took the test I know I got all the answers right... Thanks vyvanse!

HOWEVER...

I could not go back to sleep on wednesday even though i knew i should be tired with so little sleep. I have been queasy ever since i took it and feel sick when I eat things.. i want to eat things but can't.. no appetite really. i tried to throw up but nothing happened.

i managed to do a 1 hour nap on wednesday but that's it.

It is now THURSDAY at 4:15 AM. I AM STILL WIDE AWAKE. I still feel a little, imperceptibly queasy-- ive been making medicinal peppermint-spearmint teas which make the nausea go away. ( i wonder if the nausea is related to me taking my birth control pill soon after taking the vyvanse?)
I took 2 tylenol PMs around 2 AM, but so far, they have had no effect. my mind is racing but also seems really out of focus.

I am ready to resume my normal life now. I am ready to start feeling sleepy again.
Did I take way too much Vyvanse? 70mg.. I am 5 feet tall and 125 pounds. I am a 20 year old girl. I don't know how the dosage works..

Please don't tell me I should have been more informed about how much vyvanse i was taking, that really isn't going to help me out at all. I'm in college, I needed it for my midterm, and it worked wonders... now I want to go back to normal life and leave magical super-alert and super-awake Vyvanse Land.

HELP..!
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kisatchie
replied on March 6th, 2009
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Update
It is now FRIDAY at 7:41 AM.....

Thursday night I took a nap.. trying to go to sleep at 11PM. woke up at 230 AM.

I've been wide awake ever since!!! UGH this can't be normal... could really use some advice about what the heck is going on !
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jamalismyname
replied on March 25th, 2009
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Hi,

Well. I hope you are back to normal by now.
Smile

70 mg is a very high dose and you're a small person and so that makes a big difference.

It would have been better if you had probably just taken a 30 mg.

Eventually, it should wear off...I'm surprised it did affect you for so long. I have ADHD so Im pretty familiar with it all.

Be careful, though. Email me at yahoo if you want.

jamalchristopher
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