Vyvanse

Hi-

I have been taking Vyvanse to combat ADHD for some time now. I was started on 20mg and amped up to 40mg. I took the 40mg for quite some time but I was starting to feel really paranoid. The doctor attributed the Vyvanse to the paranoia and dropped my dosage. Now I don't think it is working. I don't have the clarity I did before and my energy dropped off. My sleeping patterns have gone screwy again and I'm sleeping throughout the day. Has anyone been on Vyvanse and had a problem with paranoia?

On top of all that, my health benefits were changed and I can't really afford to pay for such an expensive medication anymore. Where you taken off of Vyvanse and put on something else? If so, what were you put on?

It gave me a lot of trouble sleeping, even long after it had worn off. I am currently on Ritalin 20 mg three times a day. It seems to work just fine. I've tried Adderal, too. You can get coupons from Shire, actually they gave me a little card, which enabled me to get a discount on Vyvanse. I actually liked it a great deal, because you don't have that up-down-up-down thing like with Ritalin. But I hated how long it took to begin to work, and how even after fifteen or twenty hours, I couldn't sleep...ugh. I would be tired but unable to fall asleep. Then, I didn't wanna get up. I've never had trouble with sleep on Ritalin or Adderal, and can quite easily take it and go to sleep, if I am not working, or doing something productive. That has happened many times on a Saturday or something, I will think, oh I had best take my meds so I can get my brain operational, and take them and fall asleep in the recliner reading a magazine or watching TV. Then I wake up several hours later, and think, well that was a waste! Lol.