Psycho-Babble Medication Thread 419748

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XR vs. Short-Acting - Chemical difference?

Posted by becksA on November 24, 2004, at 12:29:43

As I've posted before, my morning Adderall XR dose helps greatly with my depression. It makes me very upbeat, motivated, social. Then throughout the rest of the day I've been prescribed 2 doses of short acting adderall, but they don't do anything close to what the XR does for my depression and anti-social behavior. I'd like to switch over so I could be on XR all day long instead.
could it have to do with the dosing? Or do they chemically act different in other ways than just the release time? We've set my morning XR dose at 60mg which has been perfect, and I'm prescribed 2 more doses throughout the day of 10mg short acting, but doesn't even come close. I tried upping it to 20mg, but still it's nothing like my mornings when I'm on the XR. It's without fail, every morning up until lunchtime or so the XR keeps me feeling wonderful, and then after that, I battle depression as it wears off.
Could somebody please tell me if the XR and short acting versions chemically alter the brain in different ways other than just the timing? I relaly feel like the XR helps my depression BIGTIME wheras the short-acting doses haven't really been helping NEARLY as much.

I also take Xanax XR, but will taper off that if the lamictal I'm starting for BPII works.
Also, might as well not bring up SSRI's or AD's of any kind. I've tried every one in the book and they either don't work or have a negative effect on me

THANKS SO MUCH! :)

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