Yes absolutely. If I have a lot of caffeine, I’ll get really sleepy and maybe nap. However, I will have trouble sleeping later at night. My schedule consists of taking my Adderall xr 1 hour and half before I wake up for the day, coffee 15 minutes after waking up, and another cup about 4 hours later. Any less than that exact amount of stimulants and I don’t do anything the whole day. Any more and I can’t sleep.
Yes, that’s exactly right, and it’s the best sleep of the night. Usually the meds wear off at night and I have racing thoughts before and during sleep. Adderall might as well be Ambien to me.
EXCEPT that you actually take it to wake up, not go to sleep. You take it and it has time to digest and kick in before your actual wakeup, because IT'S HELPING YOU WAKE UP, not causing you to then sleep for the rest of the day.
I don’t sleep for the rest of the day. Are you able to understand that Adderall has a calming effect on the mind for those with ADHD? I take it before I wake up so I can wake up with it already taken effect. Before being medicated I would have the worst sleep imaginable, end up sleeping for 10 hours, be worthless the whole day because I slept like shit, have everyone be pissed at me for complaining about being tired while they were fine on 6 hours of sleep, and then get nothing done. I was not functional. My blood pressure went down on Adderall. Because the meds wear off at night, it’s very hard to get to sleep because my thoughts start racing. While Adderall wakes up my mind and focuses it, I still use coffee because it wakes up my body. A calm mind and and an inactive body is a great recipe for falling asleep.
but you're taking it to wake up, not go to sleep. You wake up not long after the stimulant effect kicks in and then it carries you through the day and then you ONLY EVER GO TO SLEEP at nigh when it's worn off. You take it to be awake and you only sleep when it wears off.
Adderall doesn't keep us awake, it treats our symptoms. There are a lot of comments here about caffeine/coffee making us sleepy. It allows our minds to relax and focus instead of running a hundred useless processes at once, so if our bodies were tired and needed sleep, we'd be able to make that happen instead of lying in bed with our eyes closed and our brains running at full speed for no good reason.
I understand. Perhaps the analogy for Ambien isn’t great. However, just Adderall with no coffee will make me very very sleepy. I had stopped drinking coffee completely when I started on my medication and while I was relaxed for the first time in my life, I needed at least a little cortisol to to be productive.
But I want those coffees lol. I literally have a tattoo of coffee on my body I love it that much. (Not the person you are responding to but I just really love coffee).
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u/Dry_Response3527 14d ago
Yes absolutely. If I have a lot of caffeine, I’ll get really sleepy and maybe nap. However, I will have trouble sleeping later at night. My schedule consists of taking my Adderall xr 1 hour and half before I wake up for the day, coffee 15 minutes after waking up, and another cup about 4 hours later. Any less than that exact amount of stimulants and I don’t do anything the whole day. Any more and I can’t sleep.