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The heavy eyes and extreme fatigue became very noticeable at about 9 years into my daily vyvanse use of 40-50mg per day (as prescribed, never abused).
My intuition told me I needed to get off the stims to heal my body as it just felt wrong to stay on something that pushed my body further than it clearly wanted to go.
I quit a year after this started (10 years of vyvanse use) and the heavy eye and extreme fatigue feeling is still there today at 5 months stim free.
Oh, dude, totally normal. I still have it at 12 months.
It’s due to dopamine and norepinephrine systems downregulation.
The good news is that it will go away. The bad news is it can take up to 24 months to be, what we’d call, back to pre stimulant use.
Now, while I only used stims about 2.7 years, I was using Dexedrine at a dose equivalent toto like 250 mg Vyvanse…. So you may feel better than me at 12 months, or you may not depending on the duration.
No one knows.
I will say that when you begin to get tired on a stimulant, that is bad. It means that you are so tolerant to the drug that you are actually beginning to slide into sub-baseline performance, which means it’s going to be a longer road to recovery.
Just don’t think it’s permanent and go back!!!! That’s the biggest mistake you could make. Pray for the best but mentally accept you might feel pretty low energy for 1-2 years.
The great thing is that once you make it to the other side, you’ll have more energy naturally than you b I’d on Vyvanse!!!
Yep. Caffeine in the morning.
It sucks, but it is what it is.
Yep. That’s what happens with these drugs. They burn out your receptors and fuck up your brain so that at the end you can pop as much as you want, but it’s like trying to milk a dried out thin cow.
That’s where I was. And then when I quit the fatigue was unbearable.
While it’s better, I still spend most of my days feeling like I could take a nap, but I can’t.
It’s a slow process. I don’t feel good yet, just less terrible
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I could be wrong but I think Ritalin is easier to recover from.
I took Ritalin as a teen, but amphetamines were like going from gasoline to rocket fuel.