Anyone else experiencing this effect?

I've been on generic Adderall 20mg twice a day for a long time now. I had some of the usual side effects from it like appetite loss, weight loss and occasional insomnia. While living in Kentucky the pills I always got from the pharmacy were small, pink and round. Since moving back to Michigan the pills I get are orange and oval. Since starting these ones I've noticed that this weird chemical odor is coming off from me. It's like it's coming from every pore of my body and is very very unpleasant. I take a shower day and the odor goes away after washing up. But several hours later the odor is back. I've had to start showering several times a day otherwise after just a few hours of my shower I smell as if I hadn't bathed in days and is completely and utterly embarrassing. And it's not just my body it's my breath too. I have to constantly have a piece of gum or mint in my mouth. I've looked everywhere online but I can't find anything linking the Adderall with this problem and I don't understand why all of a sudden after all these years I'm having this problem. Does anyone else suffer from this? I'm there is I'd like to know so I don't feel so alone...

Sounds like a serious side effect. Stop taking it before something worse happens. You could be allergic to an inactive ingredient in the new brand of pills. If you tried a new type of food and your foot turned blue would you keep eating it? No

I called my Dr and told him about it. He said that he had never heard of someone having that happen to them in all the years he had been prescribing it. He said that he didn't see any harm in continuing to take it. That if it was causing that to happen to just adjust my hygiene habits to accommodate it. So I did up until yesterday. I just couldn't take it anymore. So I stopped taking it. Because of the smell and I was concerned that I was having a reaction to it that was potentially harmful even though he said it was OK to take. If it was causing such an effect to happen on the outside what exactly is it doing to me on the inside that I'm unaware of. The smell is still there but no where as strong as it was. I'd like to know still if this has ever happened to anyone else before or am I an isolated incident?

Hi - I've been taking Adderall in 20mg Instant-Release as well as Extended-Release (XR), and when I first started taking Adderall, I had similar symptoms, however I would be apologizing to my wife when we got home from work and she would tell me that she smelled nothing like I was describing. She has a very good sense of smell, even more so than I do. Once or twice a week I would ask her to tell me if my brain was making it up, or if she could smell it too, and every time she would not be able to smell it. My PDoc said it was most likely the result of the Adderall stimulating my brain and creating either an overstimulation from my olfactory senses, or a 'false positive'. For me it went away, but in your case I'd recommend trying to have your prescription filled at a different pharmacy chain to try and get pills from a different distributor or such. Hope this helps! Best of luck.

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