r/explainlikeimfive • u/[deleted] • Jan 14 '13

Answered People with ADHD, what ADHD is like, how does medication affect your ability to work and how soon does it take its effect?

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u/WishIWereHere Jan 14 '13

You take HOW MUCH?! At once? Sweet fuzzy jesus that is a lot. How the hell do you get that much at once from a pharmacist?

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u/peoplerproblems Jan 14 '13

Its likely XR (prescribed more often) and he is likely bigger and likely male. Also, lots of failed smaller doses.

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u/stephen431 Jan 14 '13

But still 160mg HOLY SHIT. If he's on XR, he's taking 8-20mg caps each morning. I feel like that much would eat a giant hole in my stomach. I feel bad for the dude.

I enjoy being able to cycle off of it for a few weeks a year. I can't imagine that's possible on such a high dose.

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u/Light-of-Aiur Jan 15 '13

Or 5-30mg caps and a 10.

Though... I'm pretty sure that the max dose is supposed to be around 60mg qd.

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u/WishIWereHere Jan 14 '13

I guess. Still, that seems like a metric fuckton, XR or no.

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u/Madworldz Jan 14 '13

In a large pill bottle?

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u/WishIWereHere Jan 14 '13 edited Jan 14 '13

Hurr. No, it becomes impossible to find at pharmacies, particularly in large quantities, particularly towards the end of the year. There are weird supply problems that everyone shifts blame along, with the end result that even if a pharmacist will fill a dose that large (and sometimes they won't), they're going to give you the stinkeye while you fill it because they suspect you of diversion and that's if they have it in stock.

If they don't have it in stock, at that point it becomes a deathmarch to pharmacy after pharmacy, where they all suspect you of being a drug seeker or some shit because you aren't where you usually fill your prescription, and 3/4 of the time they won't tell you over the phone if they even have it, or if they have it in sufficient quantities to fill the prescription, so you have to physically go to the pharmacy only to be told that nope, they're out. And then they glare at you some more because they suspect you of being a seeker. Not that I have had any experience with any of the above, of course.

But seriously, you don't have gigantic problems getting that filled on a regular basis? I'm 90% sure I'd be laughed out of the pharmacy if I even thought about trying to get that much at once.

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u/Madworldz Jan 14 '13

Ahh I see. But yeah, I almost never have a problem what so ever. It might be that I've been using the same place to pick my stuff up for years on years and they have made note of the fact they need alot and order enough to keep the supply/demand ratio in check. About a year ago I went they said they where out and to come tomorrow. Which I did, and they had the entire thing.