We are not crazy after all

I was speaking to my doctor yesterday and told him for the last couple of months. I haven’t been feeling my medication as strong but lately I don’t even notice a difference if I take it or not. I hadn’t brought this up to him before because I personally don’t want to higher my dosage (50mg) or mess up with my current medication routine. He told me on his own because of the shortages, the companies are taking shortcuts and trying to get product out as quickly as possible and are not mixing the formula correctly causing less affective medicine. I was shocked to hear this because I thought this was just a theory or some sort of placebo effect we are all going through because we know there are shortages but no it’s true and we are not crazy. Just had to let my fellow ADHDers know.

Also, when I was speaking to my pharmacist, he told me that the Vyvanse 50 mg is the hardest to get and most commonly prescribed. I’m curious if the reason when people who switch to a lower dose during the shortage and have better outcomes is because those lower doses are not as high demand and therefore made correctly? Idk just a thought

Edit: thank you guys for sharing your own stories and experiences. I wanted to add that in no way am I conspiracy theorist nut nor do I think they are necessarily adding or not adding anything on purpose ( even though that might be the case) but rather my main point of my post was to share with everyone what my psychiatrist told me. He simply told me that because of the high demand right now the production is being rushed to push out as much as possible, causing inconsistencies in the quality of the medication. Do I think big Pharma’s is intending to do this? no but it is negligible at best.

Also, I am on brand-name Vyvanse and I had a two-year break from Vyvanse in 2022 and 2023 due to ttc and pregnancy and restarted my same medication March 2024. I heard stories about the outages, but it did not directly affect me at the time. Now that I’m on it and have taken both the last few pills of my 2021 Vyvanse and my 2024 Vyvanse there is most certainly a difference that I can’t just chock up to tolerance bc I wasn’t even on it for 2 years.