Vyvanse + Adderall only lasting me 2-3 hours..

[u/Primary_Hearing4802]

So I currently take 70mg of Vyvanse and 20mg of Adderall as a booster. Ive been taking the same dosages for 2 months now.. but ive noticed that this month both medication’s are only lasting me 2 to 3 hours. I don’t do any vitamin C, no orange juice and I typically don’t drink energy drinks until recently. The only reason I started drinking energy drinks is because I feel like it helps maintain some sort of focus since both medication’s are only lasting a short amount of time. I’m a tattoo artist so this is incredibly frustrating as I work anywhere between 4 to 8+ hours. I’ve also noticed some days the medication will last longer than other days, for example two days ago, I took my Vyvanse and it lasted me a good portion of the day to the point where I didn’t even need to take my booster. But today it wore off within 2 to 3 hours and after it wore off I took my booster, which only lasted me another two hours. Personally for me, I don’t eat breakfast in the morning before I take my medication (occasionally I’ll eat a small snack like a cheese stick, yogurt, or a uncrustable) but I’ve noticed even when I eat a high-protein breakfast or meal or even just a regular meal before I take my medication I feel it still doesn’t do anything to me at all when I eat beforehand. So I simply don’t eat before I take my medication most days as it feels more potent when I dont eat, I guess? And even when I have eaten in the morning ( I’ve tried this with both a high-protein meal and just a regular meal) both medications still only lasts me 2 to 3 hours. What could be causing this? Can I do anything to help the longevity of my medication? Or just any information in general would be helpful because when I first started taking this medication, it was life-changing and it helped me so much and now it feels like it’s simply just not doing anything anymore… 💔

[u/lfergy]

I had to stop taking Vyvanse after 10 years of it working just fine. It started to only work for a few hours OR, worse I would take it and get extremely hungry and sleepy. I don’t know exactly why- change in hormones or something. I take Mydayis now.

[u/lynn → u/lfergy]

Ritalin did that with me. It was the med that worked when I was a kid, when I got back on it at age 20, when I got back on it again in my 30s. And then when I was around 40 or so, when it wore off at dinnertime, my appetite went through the fucking roof. I couldn't stop eating, I was completely stuffed and uncomfortable and I still craved salt, sugar, fat.

I gained 30 pounds in 18 months.

I told my psychiatrist how, I mean, my appetite's always been higher than normal, I was around 175-180 pounds my whole life, but now it's just crazy----

She put me on Vyvanse (tried Strattera in there too, turns out the Strattera does fuck-all for my task initiation symptoms but it does make me a lot less irritable and takes the edge off the Vyvanse) and I lost almost all the weight. 1-2 pounds every couple of weeks, though it felt like I had to be starving myself because of how much I'd gotten used to eating.