Why were you prescribed Desoxyn if you're able to function with 30mg of Adderall? That's not at all an unreasonably high dose. Desoxyn is usually only prescribed when the dosage by weight of Adderall would be too high.
I've been prescribed/taking 30mg IR for about a decade now. I don't feel anything after taking it, beyond causally noticing that I'm not causing the problems I do when unmedicated. My doc asked years back if I was interested in taking a 1/day rather than 3/day, but the thought of a single XR dose always seemed like a clock counting down... which doesn't usually jive with my personality type at all. I like the control over the timing; plus, it also enables skipping dose to let my mind go on walks.
Yeah. That's how I feel now that I take XR. I know exactly when I'll become non-functional. Knowing that the clock will hit 0 is distracting and frustrating.
I've tried to get IR, but I think my doctors have assumed I'm just drug-seeking. I'm young and I've only been prescribed for ~1 year.
In my experience, IR builds tolerance way too fast.
I agree that it would be nice to have IR for those times you want shorter bursts. But I ran into its shortcomings too quickly as a daily burner, not so different than trying to therapeutically bump cocaine.
There's also dirt cheap generic IR but there wasn't generic XR back then (still?).
The other part of it was the physician was quite literally, old - and I questioned his ability to practice medicine at that point -- the same guy prescribed methadone to a friend of mine for migraines.
I've never heard of anyone else being prescribed Desoxyn.
That's a high dose, but not unusually or dangerously high (depending on what condition was being treated, since you didn't specify).
I'm surprised that you were able to obtain Desoxyn given that - it's usually tried as a 'last resort' medication, partially because doctors are hesitant to prescribe something that's under even more scrutiny than other Schedule II drugs.
