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Neurodivergent 4w

Does anyone else get the shits after taking adderall?

Anonymous 4w

This is actually a pretty universal thing with most stimulants, so yeah you’re not alone on this one at all. Adderall, caffeine, nicotine, they all make people shit.

Anonymous 4w

As #1 said this is medically accurate with what happens when taking stimulants. So snow, coffee, tea, energy drinks, cigarettes, vapes, adderall, vyvanse, Ritalin for a few examples will give you the shits. A weird thing is that alcohol is a depressant and makes you poop too by speeding up the contractions in your digestive system. A lot of things make you poop.

Anonymous 4w

Yk.. maybe I don’t wanna try adderall 😭

Anonymous 4w

sometimes there’s a time gap in when I get my adhd meds, so when I haven’t taken em for a few days and then start taking them again I do get the shits yeah

Anonymous 4w

I am shocked and frankly quite baffled every time someone finds something out about their medication. Like, I thoroughly research every medication I’ve been on because I want to know most possible side effects and how it functions and what it does to my body. But it’s crazy to me that people just blindly take medication and don’t know what it does or how it impacts their body and systems.

Anonymous

#4 4w

(This isn’t me judging anyone else, it’s me saying I don’t want the shits 💔)

Anonymous

#3 4w

I mean side effects are in no way universal and different bodies react to different things differently, and if you have the condition a medication treats then you’ll take it and discuss side effects with your doctor later. That’s how most people do it.

Anonymous

#3 4w

Alcohol depresses specific parts of the brain, specifically your brain’s regulators, which is why it speeds up certain functions and lowers your inhibitions, rather than just straight up slowing you down across the board

Anonymous

#1 4w

That's highly unethical. The ethical and actually MOST COMMONLY PRACTICED way of going about this is to KNOW WHAT YOURE DOING. Just taking pills and not doing any research on them is so stupid it's scary.

Anonymous

#1 4w

Opioids, which are a class of depressant that DOES just slow you down across the board, also constipate people.

Anonymous

#1 4w

I never said it “slows you down across the board” please quote me where I did say that. It’s factually correct that alcohol is a depressant, namely a CNS depressant, however it has affects that cause certain things to happen, regardless of it being a depressant.

Anonymous

#3 4w

Jesus Christ you’re tightly wound, I wasn’t contradicting you, I was making an addition to your statement to further explain it. That wasn’t a counter-argument, it was a point of clarity.

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Anonymous

#3 4w

I get where you are coming from. There are good reason for ND folks to prioritize the ability to self-advocate, but the truth is that you are describing an ideal scenario. Many people start new medications because they are not in ideal situations. We get enough shame from the outside world. Let’s not compound it, here.

Anonymous

#4 4w

Being quite honest and a little tmi it’s kind of a bonus for me because I’ve always struggled with constipation….. 🫣🫣

Anonymous

#3 4w

My apologies I didn’t mean to spark a whole lecture here. Trust me when I say thoroughly researched, discussed and contemplated before starting my meds. But in what I was researching and the people I talked to didn’t mention this little side effect. But it being a stimulant it didn’t shock me to much I only wondered if this was a universal experience or not

Anonymous

OP 4w

Being quite honest, I had the same thought because me too 😭😭😭