Slightly different formula? It isn't even metabolized in the same manner...
I was on Adderall for 15 years and switched to Vyvanse about a year ago. I now take one tablet that balances me out for the entire day. I can sleep while medicated, I can jump into a book, I can spend time with friends, I can code android apps for clients from 8am to 8pm followed by dinner with friends/family (all the while w/o a single emotional breakdown). I never need more and I never wish that I had taken less.
Nothing that I just mentioned is possible with Adderall. How are you forming your opinion(s)? Certainly not from experience. Seriously, why would you even make such a bold claim as "vyvanse offers nothing over adderall to the patient." (???) Even if both of us are wrong, every patient is different.
I understand the attraction of writing off new medications as means of new profits. Vyvanse is certainly bringing in the big bucks. And it was strategically released as the patent on Adderall XR expired. But it's also helping a lot of people like me who never responded well to Adderall but also had no other good choices (yes, I've tried them all). I am in NO way defending drug companies, this is simply my story.
Finally, if you don't believe me, make friends who have meds. Borrow a tab or two. Come back and tell me that the difference was "slight."
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When did /. become nonsensical fear mongering? So over this website. But... I loved you. :(
Slightly different formula? It isn't even metabolized in the same manner... I was on Adderall for 15 years and switched to Vyvanse about a year ago. I now take one tablet that balances me out for the entire day. I can sleep while medicated, I can jump into a book, I can spend time with friends, I can code android apps for clients from 8am to 8pm followed by dinner with friends/family (all the while w/o a single emotional breakdown). I never need more and I never wish that I had taken less. Nothing that I just mentioned is possible with Adderall. How are you forming your opinion(s)? Certainly not from experience. Seriously, why would you even make such a bold claim as "vyvanse offers nothing over adderall to the patient." (???) Even if both of us are wrong, every patient is different. I understand the attraction of writing off new medications as means of new profits. Vyvanse is certainly bringing in the big bucks. And it was strategically released as the patent on Adderall XR expired. But it's also helping a lot of people like me who never responded well to Adderall but also had no other good choices (yes, I've tried them all). I am in NO way defending drug companies, this is simply my story. Finally, if you don't believe me, make friends who have meds. Borrow a tab or two. Come back and tell me that the difference was "slight."
Who still takes Adderall? Gogo vyvanse.