Adderall side effects

Has anyone ever had hallucinations from taking too much adderall????

only when i drank many mountain dews on the same day! I am on 40mg adderall xr each day. now I stay away from the mountain dew! and caffeine for that matter. not good for the heart.

My kid was on 60 mg of adderall XR and had hallucinations. I wonder if it was too much caffeine???

Anyone ever hear of that?? I think his dose was too high?

Yes it can cause minor ones, im no doctor but im 16 and i take it and sometimes you get so on the edge you start looking around and you will think you just saw something pass in the corner of your eye but your not sure, sometimes i take over the recomended amount for my dosage and i see bright lightsin the corner of my eye and ill walk into a room and think i saw someone but there not there and even sometimes i think i hear my name. i no longer take adderal tho i couldnt take how it made me feel, i was allways on the edge and i couldnt eat, my Stomach would start to hurt to just cause i wasnt eating but no matter how hard i tried i just couldnt eat, it looked so nasty, all food did, which i am glad i dont take it anymore because now i can munch on my chezzy burger in front me. Peace OuT~~ Info from the Younger Generation~~
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In August My child started Adderrall 30mg. When he started it I only gave him one pill. He could not go to sleep that night. He kept waking me up and telling me he saw something in the closet and the bathroom for at least 3 hours. It scared me to death. I told him to describe them and he did. Then the monsters apparently went away because I turned on the lights for the rest of the night and he fell right to sleep.

I took him to the emergency room the next day and they made it look like I overdosed him and to stop the medication immediately (which I did anyway). I contacted his psychiatrist and he said that Adderrall doesn't have these side effects of hallucination and that it could be an anxiety disorder.

I know my child and he's never had hallucinations before. The medication bottle comes with 30 pills and he has 29 pills left. There is no overdosage on my part. I think the mg is too high. My child is scared to death now to walk through the house. I've stopped giving him the medicine. The doctors are telling me to keep giving it to him. NOPE I WON'T! It just seems evil.

I'm glad someone else may have the same problem.

Ah yeah....Adderall can cause hallucinations, abnormal behavior, or confusion. It is not a common side effect but it is a known side effect. The recommended treatment is to stop taking the medication immediately.

Sounds like your doc needs to check his PDR more often.

JUST WANTED TO SAY I THINK UR REALLY COOL AND THAT U UNDERSTAND UR CHILD I MYSELF HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM BUT MY DAD AND MOM NEVER TOOK ME OFF THE MED I FEEL HIGH THE WHOLE TIME JUST WANT TO SAY UR A GREAT MOM
DOCTORS DO NOT REALLY CARE I GUESS

Adderall can indeed have hallucinogenic effects. It stimulates transmission of certain types of chemicals in your brain, and one of these chemicals is called "dopamine." ADHD is a so-called "dopamine-related disorder."

Schizophrenia also happens to be a "dopamine-related disorder" except that ADHD people are thought to have *too little* dopamine, whereas schizophrenics are thought to have *too much*.

If you (or your child) take too much Adderall, you can actually induce schizophrenic-like symptoms such as hallucinations or social withdrawl, because certain types of dopamine receptors in your brain are configured in such a way that makes you vulnerable to schizophrenic-like symptoms from too much dopamine. This is usually a good sign, because it likely means you are creative or have the potential to be so---you are more likely to "dream up" stuff, like new ideas and such. If you take too much Adderall, you are messing with a brain system that gives you the ability to "dream up" stuff, and that dreaming then becomes real to you in an unhealthy way.

Caffeine also increases dopamine levels, so adding it to Adderall is a very bad idea, and it also interacts with the heart in different, unhealthy ways.

My suggestion is to dramatically reduce your dose if you get to the stage where you are experiencing hallucinations. Cut it in half, but you should really do the following to help with any withdrawl effects: go out and buy some fish oil with a two-to-one ratio of EPA to DHA, making sure it has passed purity tests (for mercury, etc). This will provide a mild stimulating and focusing effect for your child, increasing dopamine a bit, and will also calm areas in their brain responsible for anger. Take the fish oil on the first morning that you cut the dose in half. Take the fish oil first, followed by the Adderall. For the fish oil, make sure you are not taking any blood thinners, are not alergic to iodine, and are not anticipating surgery. Fish oil may also mildly increase asthmatic symptoms. This is not hodge podge, there are some ninety thousand peer-reviewed research articles on the benefits of the eicosanoids found in fish oil, and I also happen to take it myself. Monitor stress levels and increase fish oil by your judgment to counteract withdrawl symptoms and stress levels. Children should take a fish oil "for kids", which comes at a lower dose.

If you want to get off the Adderall completely, you should still switch to a high EPA ratio fish oil the next dosing period, but you should also add the supplement "PS" to your routine. PS helps with the "working memory" problems commonly found in ADHD. Its full name is "Phosphatidylserine". You can find PS at most Walgreens stores. But take note: you should not take this with Adderall or other stimulants. A working memory problem has two qualifications: (1) when you're attentive you forget right away what you attended to. (2) You do things like forget where your keys are, have trouble remembering names, or have problems holding thoughts in your head for very long. See a licensed neuropsychologist for evaluation on working memory or other cognitive aspects of ADHD.

Don't take any of the other "natural" hodgepodge blends of gobbeldy gook they sell for ADHD on the internet. The high levels of tyrosine found in these products will likely cause depression in many, and messing with amino acids (like tyrosine) is generally not the best thing to do, especially with children.

And the moral of the story? Never blindly trust your psychiatrist. Also, be sure to get annual physicals, espeically for children. Just to be safe.

-A grad student in Neuroscience / Biological Psychology....with ADHD...

P.S. Check out my website as it develops: www.noBSpsych.com
The information I wrote here will be saved and compiled with other things I've written / will write on the subject. Meanwhile, check out Dr. Amen's ADD book for some good brain-based information.

Yeah 2 nights ago , I was taking adderall for my 2nd time , I don't take it regularly, and I took 130 mg , like 6 and a half 20 mg pills and was smoking weed , But all these is from the adderall and yes I was hallucinating , at one point I thought I saw my friend that wasn't there, and kept seeing dark people shaped figures, at one point I was walking in a dark room and I saw a shape and I tried to hit it becuase it was in front of me. I told my friend this stuff which he was on adderall and he said I was crazy , But different people have different of effects I stayed up all night without being tired once and didn't eat the whole time, I felt like I drunk 50 cups of coffee , Then the next day I went to school and I thought I heard someone say my name like 20 times and saw things out the corner of my eye all day , I was wired and my eyes were really open and I could do my work really well , I like to draw alot when I am on it. But then like at the last hour of school I started to feel sick , because probley It was an change to my schedule , staying up all night , not eating... So then I was riding the bus and I felt really sick , and I threw up and felt sick for the rest of the day , dizzy and a stomache ache. Then I slept for the night and the next day , I woke up without being tired , which is unusual becuase I am not a morning person. I was fine till I ate some food (not much) could not finish my food then after , I begain to feel sick again and the whole day I felt sick again , not eating , But then I forced my self to eat pizza and now I feel fine. If you ever have a stomache a day after using it, its because you arn't eating and it feels like you have not ate in days, so force yourself to eat and you will feel better. But I think I just took to much adderall
For my 2nd time , If you are going to take large dosage work your way up. But taking 2 or 3 pills your first time should be ok , but you will be wired. For me this medicine would be used for if I have to stay up all night working , or need to concentrate. This medicine has the same effects of cocaine. But if you take it and you don't see any changes take one more and it should just work then but don't keep taking more and more thinking you will get higher like weed , if thats what you want from it , like a drug you buy on the street.
This is a drug you can get sick from if you take to much , unlike weed, Which I thought becuase I was not high and I kept taking more but then as you read the next day I felt like $#%^. So do not take alot at once unless you want to feel bad the next day. If you are not subscribed to this med , don't use it alot or you will get addicted to it.