Dextroamphetamine for ADHD User Reviews (Page 3)

• Emmeali
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• November 17, 2017

ProCentra (dextroamphetamine) "I am a 24 year old female diagnosed in my 20's with adult ADHD. I spent my entire childhood unable to focus on tasks, finish anything I started, behave and sit still in the classrooms. I scraped by barely with C's and D's in grade school. Eventually focusing became so hard to do with people around that I had my parents homeschool me. Fast forward to now, I am currently in my first semester of college, and I have a 4.0 GPA. This medicine works wonders. I normally cannot function at all. I am disorganized, and always have racing thoughts. On ProCentra I am calm, focused, and organized. I finish tasks, and manage my time better. I take 10mg. a day, oral solution. This medication is also covered on my insurance, with only a $10 co-pay. Love it!"

• Garga...
• Taken for 10 years or more
• January 3, 2013

Dexedrine (dextroamphetamine) "I'm 38. Been taking Dexedrine now for my fourth time for a month. I was diagnosed at 21 in 1995. I tried Ritalin for a couple weeks and stopped. Went untreated for a few more years. Went to my doctor about my wild mood swings and EXTREME emotions and told him about Ritalin. He said I should try Dexedrine. Instantly it did wonders. If a coworker said something that would have offended me and got me bent out of shape, it just rolled off my back. I felt great and inspired. It didn't affect my sex drive at all. "

• Anonymous
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• August 4, 2021

Zenzedi (dextroamphetamine) "Been prescribed this for 6 months now 15 mg twice a day needed to boost me up to 30 mg twice a day but no side effects feel great my local cvs now has it all the time for me. My insurance covers it I pay ten bucks for 60 and have gotten off all my bi polar meds and depression meds due to this med love it"

• Silas...
• Taken for 1 to 2 years
• October 18, 2014

Zenzedi (dextroamphetamine) "I take two 20mg a day (one in the morning and one in the afternoon). Details: -20 y/o female -diagnosed ADD for 4 years -tried Adderall (worked decently, bad crashes) and methylphenidate (nausea, motion sickness, didn't help ADD) -other conditions: severe depression, OCD PROS: -extremely helpful, like night and day -no jitter, tremor, etc -no crash CONS: -reduced appetite -*have to special order through Target pharmacy because most places don't keep it in stock"

• Rick...
• Taken for 1 to 2 years
• April 16, 2023

Dexedrine (dextroamphetamine) "I have a positive experience. I was running around with anxiety, depression, and panic attack. I was on all kinds of antidepressants then my doctor put me on dexedrine the best thing that ever happened to me."

• Mike
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• November 11, 2021

Dexedrine (dextroamphetamine) "Wow. I have tried Ritalin, Adderall and now Dexedrine. Let me tell you this drug works the best. I don’t know why this drug doesn’t get prescribed more or first line med to try. To tell you the truth I think Adderall should be banned. Adderall has Dextroamphetamine which is Dexedrine but here where I think Adderall should be banned. Adderall also has Levoamphetamine which gives you ungodly vasoconstriction. Levoamphetamine should actually be banned. There is no need to have Levoamphetamine and Dextroamphetamine in 1 pill. Adderall is like 3:1 with both Dextroamphetamine and Levoamphetamine. All Levoamphetamine does is raise your blood pressure and constrict your blood vessels. Dextroamphetamine doesn’t do this. Well it does but no where near like when I took Adderall. I feel calm on Dexedrine and when I took Adderall at any dose, I felt like a crack head. I believe that’s the Levo and Dextro combination does this, even my psychiatrist agrees with me to a certain extent"

• Lizzi...
• Taken for 6 months to 1 year
• June 5, 2013

Dexedrine (dextroamphetamine) "Got this for ADD and my chronic fatigue. It changed me. Grades in school went from 60s-80s, I could actually focus long enough to plan my life and pay attention. Only problem I had was the tolerance, although my dosage was raised and now I can take it regularly without feeling it, it made it really hard to sleep if I took it to late, and if the dosage is too high, or you are just starting, you get a really unpleasant buzz. Even though that buzz makes you super motivated and lets you get stuff done, it makes it really hard to relax and makes you more prone to panic attacks."

• Anonymous
• April 8, 2012

Dexedrine (dextroamphetamine) "I've taken many different medications for my ADHD over the years, Adderall, Ritalin, Strattera, Concerta and Vyvanse. Dexedrinne is the most effective with almost no side effects. I only experienced slight appetite suppression with it and it never effected my mood negatively nor did I ever feel "cracked-out" on it. I now take Vyvanse because the slow release works better with another medication I take; however, I would strongly recommend Dexedrine to anyone who is looking for an effective treatment for ADHD. "

• aus
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• December 31, 2020

Zenzedi (dextroamphetamine) "I had been taking Vyvanse close to a year with great success, but needed something I could gauge when I needed to dose and not take Vyvanse which kept me awake for 12-13 hours. Switched to Dexedrine and went through 3 months worth (all different manufacturers) of horrible generics. I finally got Zenzedi this last month, and it seems to work for maybe 45 minutes. This is not what I was expecting, did the formula change or something? It feels like I took a bad adderall to be honest. Generic Sandoz adderall is more like vyvanse than Zenzedi is, at least for me lately. 10mg 2x a day. Has anyone else noticed an issue lately?"

• EvaFab
• November 16, 2011

Dexedrine (dextroamphetamine) "I have ADHD and Bulimia. I read through everyone's comments and I couldn't agree more. I am a 21 year old model living in New York City and suffered from chronic ADHD/ADD and Bulimia. Ritalin would make me so jittery I couldn't even try to do anything. 1 hour of euphoria that led no WHERE. (Focalin *is new* did the same thing just paid more!) So they tried everything in every batch: Daytrana, Focalin and Ritalin.. then Vyvanse with Adderall IR or AddXR with ADD IR Anyways I looked up online and saw how Dexedrine is what makes up half of Adderall. I asked my doctor he was like "ehh" but he went for it. I've been on it ever since. I think it is the most under credited ADHD/Stimulant medicine on the market. I have no anxiety, clean concentration! "

• Anonymous
• August 17, 2009

Dexedrine (dextroamphetamine) "I used Ritalin for many years before realizing it had little or no effect on me. I think the placebo effect applied not only to me, but also to my parents and teachers. Upon finding out that it's quite common for some patients to have their medication switched 2-3 times before finding one that works, I decided to try Adderall (which worked amazingly, but gave me insomnia), Concerta (which didn't work on me, since it's basically the same as Ritalin), and finally settled on Dexedrine, which I don't know how I ever lived without. Of all the ADD medications I tried, it was head and shoulders above the rest as far as effectiveness AND had the fewest side effects (which were barely noticeable and disappeared after a couple weeks)."

• Adhdm...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• December 6, 2015

Dexedrine (dextroamphetamine) "My 15 yo son who has innattentive ADHD was taking adderall since 7th grade. He is now in 10th. For the longest time he has been having anger issues, he is easily irritated by other students talking in class, noise on the bus, and his 7 year old sister. I was desperately searching online for meds to help with anger with ADHD and asp and found this site. Reading all the comparisons of adderall and dexedrine, others having the same situation and most improving on the dex I hoped that his problem was the adderall. Went to the doctor told her all of the above. She seemed a little skeptical about it but was willing to give it a try. I don't want to jinx myself or my son but so far so good even helped sister with homework."

• big...
• Taken for 5 to 10 years
• May 6, 2015

Dexedrine (dextroamphetamine) "I take 15 mg three times a day along with Ritalin 20 mg three times a day and I am so glad my Doc found this combo!!!! I'm 36 and extremely overweight and I got the got up and go that I never had and the help to keep my mind on very important things and people in my life, like my kids!!"

• Anonymous
• April 3, 2008

Dexedrine (dextroamphetamine) "My daughter is now nine and has been on Dexedrine for about four and a half years. I know about the med from my little brother, and it worked for him. My daughter's doctors wanted to try all the new stuff, not one worked, so once again, I said put her on Dexedrine. Finally, after about a year, they put her on it, and she is doing great on a low dose. So if you have tried the others, go old school and use Dexedrine, it works :)"

• Mrssf...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• September 5, 2015

Dexedrine (dextroamphetamine) "I am 39 years old and have been suffering from ADD my whole life. It wasn't until recently I finally figured out what it was. After trying Ritalin which didn't agree with me, and Adderall XR which made me irritable, anti -social and too engaged I read the reviews of this & decided to give it a whirl. I'm only on week 1, but compared to the others I am MUCH more myself with no anxiey! Also, I am shocked at how low of a dose gets the job done. I am on 5mg once daily around noon. You may think you need more but start low & see how much changes right before your very eyes. You get plenty done and still wind down after 4 hours. I sleep great and my appetite is only affected the first 3 hours. I didn't give it a 10 b/c of some memory issues."

• Hot_P...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• August 27, 2020

Dexedrine (dextroamphetamine) "It was a pain to get my Dexedrine prescription filled because most pharmacies don't carry it and they have to order it. Compared to Adderall, Dexedrine is very calming since there's no levoamphetamine in the mix, just pure dextroamphetamine. Unfortunately, I was focusing on things that I wanted to do, instead of the things I had to do (and the what I worked on really made a difference). I would like to give it another try just to compare it to Adderall again."

• Fizzle
• October 13, 2010

Dexedrine (dextroamphetamine) "By far the best medication I have tried for ADHD. It is great for someone who also social anxiety or anxiety in general. With Ritalin I had many negative side effects one of which is anxiety. Dexedrine is great. I do not even need to take my clonazepam (Klonopin) during the day because Dexedrine is so smooth."

• Harri...
• Taken for 5 to 10 years
• March 23, 2023

Zenzedi (dextroamphetamine) "Taken for 8 years and worked great. But in 2020 original manufacturer Wilshire was bought by Arbor Pharmaceuticals and the original 10 mg was no longer available. Arbor changed the color from pink to yellow-brown and it doesn't work. Recently was able to get pink 10 mg only in the quantity of 30 jars (100 counts no longer available) and though it looks exactly like the earlier 10 mg (same color and script) it doesn't work near as well. It no longer gives me energy and takes 2.5-5 hours to kick in vs the previous version that kicked in immediately. The current 10 mg pink version, which looks like the pre-2021 version, doesn't work near as well as the original but it is much less expensive. I believe this new 10 mg pink Zenzedi is a cheaper generic version that they are passing off as the original. The original 10 mg was much more expensive than the current version which looks identical and the original 15 mg is also much more expensive."

• Recov...
• March 3, 2010

Dexedrine (dextroamphetamine) "Works well for my ADD but DON'T ever mix with alcohol! I am an alcoholic who comes from a alcoholic background handed down several generations of my family tree. I take my Dex. as prescribed (5 mg 3x daily, a small dose by choice compared to 45 mg 3x daily when I was younger and not in charge of my own health needs) But when I binge drank I would always mix the alcohol with Dex. up to 50 mg a night so I could keep drinking. Lost many friends, wife, and the the respect of too many due to my actions, aggressions, combativeness stances and so on. Alcoholics beware. I'm sober now and take it one day at a time. I still take my Dex. but ONLY as prescribed. I am 35 and have taken it since age 12."

• Sf100
• March 3, 2018

Dexedrine (dextroamphetamine) "I began treatment for bipolar 2 years ago. It has been successful. I still had severe brain fog, impatience, and lethargy though. Psych dr diagnosed ADHD on top of bipolar. Tried Vyvanse, Ritalin, and Dexedrine. Dex won for me. 10mg in am and 5 at lunch and dinner. Much more patient and clear-headed."

• Evilm...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• October 9, 2018

Zenzedi (dextroamphetamine) "This stuff makes you feel like the king of the world! Unfortunately, that euphoria after 5 hours turns to dysphoria and the crying starts. Horrible thoughts that I'm a failure and no way to calm down. There should be an extended version of this drug because that 5 hour comedown is horrible."

• Coltons
• September 14, 2017

Dexedrine (dextroamphetamine) "When I was 12 years old. I woke up at 2 in the morning to blindingly agonizing pain, bad enough that I found myself screaming at the top of my lungs. But when I tried to get out of bed I found my strength fail me and plummeted to the ground hitting my head on my night table. My parents found me and brought me to the hospital. I only found out years later when reading a list of side effects and overdose symptoms just how harmful this drug is. The word limit doesn't allow me to even scratch the surface. I will say that it has left serious physiological scars that decades later have still not healed. I cannot deny that it did help me pay attention in class. But I would still advise any parent that loves their child to STAY CLEAR!"

• Condell
• July 26, 2016

Zenzedi (dextroamphetamine) "The generic for this med didn't work at all, however the name brand (for some reason) is amazing! It has changed my life after so many other meds have failed. I am able to study, take notes, and remember what I've read now. The only reason I did not give it a 10 is because I am having some issues with insomnia. I'm sure that is related to the timing and strength of my last dose of the day however, and will adjusted. It can be expensive, however after trying everything else and nothing else working, I would rather pay for this than deal with awful symptoms all day."

• WSHar...
• October 20, 2016

Dexedrine (dextroamphetamine) "I have been on about 100 mg. of dexedrine for over 20 years and it always worked great until a few years ago, when my drug company stopped sending me the TEVA generic. I never had problems with generics before but the Activis brand did nothing for me. I was told that TEVA was made by the same drug manufacturer that makes the name brand so I payed extra for the name brand and that does not appear to be working either. I have been told that TEVA no longer makes dexedrine so I am not sure what I should do. Also, I was told that the FDA no longer allows doses over 60 mg. but I am sure that is true. It could be my insurance company does not want to pay for more than a standard dose."

• Anonymous
• Taken for less than 1 month
• July 20, 2012

Dexedrine (dextroamphetamine) "My experience is limited since I have only been on this medication for a few days. I am a medical resident, diagnosed with ADHD at 32. Got sick and tired of my mediocre performance at work. Tried Straterra, Viibryd and Wellbutrin, nothing worked. Just started on Dexedrine 5mg 2-3 times a day. My first day on it, I studied all day until midnight. I was so motivated, I felt great, on top of the world, I was so driven. I noticed an immediate difference in my performance at work and it made me a nicer, less cynical. The bad thing was insomnia, teeth clenching, some nausea, decreased appetite and the drop in my mood once it wore off. I am worried about intolerance which is driving up my anxiety level. "