Adderall gave me Tourette's

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I was wondering if anyone else had the unique experience of acquiring Tourette's when being put on Adderall or a similar medication (and having to therefore stop the medication).

I had Adderall for two weeks back in 2015 and started to notice myself making strange facial movements, jerking my leg a lot, having an uncontrollable urge to perform these verbal and movement tics. The professionals thought I was faking seizures to get attention, but I didn't realize until later that I'd developed Tourette's from the Adderall!

So I can have the unique experience of knowing what Tourette's is like, for a brief time. It made functioning impossible. My kudos goes to those who can't just "stop" their Tourette's and have to manage it full-time. It would be a tough job.

Thanks for the link. Yeah, my current psychiatrist did mention tics in the potential "horrors" of stimulants.

My heart goes out to you. Having only had it for a brief time, I can't picture the challenge of having it for decades.

The person who put me on the Adderall to begin with was an idiot. I'm bipolar and shouldn't be within a mile of stimulant drugs. (And yet here is me drinking Crystal Light caffeine packets every day.)

If im put on a stimulant for my ADHD, im already diagnosed with Tourettes, its a curisoity if anything in tourettes changes in myself