I head up a small community for fans of a niche indie brand. The founder is doing an event in Japan with an exclusive item for people who attend! I was so excited and was looking into booking a plane ticket to go!
Howeverβ¦ turns out that Japan has a law that absolutely forbids stimulant medication in the country. And, no, I donβt really want to upend my regimen of 8 years and risk going on a new medication for the trip.
Iβm really shattered, as I wanted to attend this cool event and meet up with other enthusiasts. It really hurts to be barred from an opportunity like this.
I hate ADHD. I really do.
Youβre absolutely correct that a medication isnβt going to react the same for every person. People can have weird or even fatal reactions to medications. Any local pharmacist should be able to answer questions about medications and interactions.
To be clear, I am just saying that if adderall works for someone, vyvanse is likely to work for that person as well, because the drugs are so similar. Vyvanseβs biggest difference from adderall is that itβs a prodrug, meaning that starts off as a drug that has no effects on the body until it reacts with an natural enzyme we have in our colon which causes the drug to turn into what is basically adderall.
Adderall is mixed amphetamine salts.
The mixture is composed of equal parts racemic amphetamine and dextroamphetamine, which produces a ratio between dextroamphetamine and levoamphetamine, the two enantiomers of amphetamine.
Compared to vyvanse:
Lisdexamfetamine is an inactive prodrug that is converted in the body to dextroamphetamine, a pharmacologically active compound which is responsible for the drugβs activity.
So technically, Adderall is dextroamphetamine and levoamphetamine. I canβt speak more to this because of my lack of knowledge but βdextroβ and βlevoβ are βrightβ and βleftβ, basically meaning something like the left and right βversionsβ (wrong word) of the molecule. Vyvanse on the otherhand is just the right βversionβ (wrong word) of the molecule.
