Home › Welcome to the ADDitude Forums › For Adults › Treating Your ADHD › Metabolizing medication too fastThis topic contains 1 reply, has 2 voices, and was last updated by shittinbricks 13 hours, 11 minutes ago.I was recently diagnosed and started on Vyvanse 20mg.
There was a huge improvement in my symptoms but I would only get at most four hours until the medication wore off. We tried 30mg, then 20mg morning/20mg afternoon, then 30mg/20mg, then 30mg/30mg and every other morning/afternoon dosage within 70mg and it never changed how long the medication would last because it was just being metabolized too fast.
I have had an issue with other medications in the past due to this, I was put on several different anti-depressants and I assumed.
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