[NoId]

ADD medications are prone to adverse interactions with other drugs and chemicals.

Some of these chemicals are found in the everyday environment.

Benzalkonium chloride is probably the most common chemical in the environment that will cause adverse interaction. The interaction increases with exposure. The chemical composition of disinfectant is not regulated and may vary.

Rotting carcasses emit putrescine and cadaverine. Again, the interaction increases with exposure.

What is common about these chemicals is the amine group. The amine group is most likely responsible for interfering with the action of the medication. Other chemicals may also have interactions with ADD medication, such as urethane chemicals (car upholstery care products and paints), certain antidepressants, chocolates and certain herbal compounds.

Symptoms include:
agitation, restlessness, insomnia, nausea, hallucinations, psychosis, profuse nocturnal sweating, weakness in the limbs, cardiovascular complications, fainting, delirium

If you think you are being exposed to chemicals that are causing adverse reactions -- separate yourself from the source of exposure immediately. File a complaint with management.

[lowinmood]

are you saying these toxic chemicals are found in the medication to treat ADD?

[NoId]

No they are found in the environment at large. One whiff of benzalkonium chloride can have an effect on someone with ADD who is on medication. I, personally, tend to drop things. Totally uncharacteristic of the normal ADD symptoms I would experience. It's like a slipstream to ADD.

The more extreme effects would only arise if, say, they put a portable toilet outside your place of work on a hot summers day. Or if there was a dead deer carcass near by your residence. Or if you were near a chocolate factory for an extended period of time.

[NoId]

Although I suspect that some of the ADD medications are, perhaps, inadvertently playing up some of the adverse effects. Cadaverine is after all derived from lysine which dexedrine is salted with in the medication Vyvanse. I've never taken it before so I don't know what the deal is there.

Benzalkonium chloride has those methyl groups. Something like methamphetamine. Which not a very good ADD medication at all.

Part of what makes dexedrine effective may be the lack of the -OH group. The protein of the receptor is -OH phobic. So it would not have nearly the effect on someone who does not have ADD. Their protein is -OH philic.

It took me 17 years to learn the hard way.