Adderall and the Menstrual Cycle

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• Posted by Tri-Polar Bear - Feb 19 2008 @ 10:22 PM
  me too!!!!
  I have been taking adderall since last fall and each period since then, about four, has become longer, heavier, and has come with cramps for a longer period of time, a worsening mood of severe depression and irritability. It used to be 3-5 days, I would only have cramps a few hours before it started that required only two advil for the whole period and no mood problems. This last period was 10 days! I had cramps the whole time, so I took about a bottle of advil, three at a time, had very heavy bleeding, and the most atrocious mood ever! I was also unbeleiveably exhausted, to the point of not going to work for three days. I literally cried the whole time, and comsidered going the ER twice for pain pills. None of these symptoms were premenstrual except by a few hours and the cramps, mood and fatigue ended exactly when the period did. All I could get off the internet was dysmenorhea, but there is no reason why it would randomly happen now. I did also start Trazodone the same time. I am 30 and have not ever been pregnant, but I do have bipolar disorder and some degree of ADD, although the mood is not in step with mu normal patterns nor my current meds which have made me depression free otherwise. Thanks!