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(Continued again...) I'm still on 5 mg of Adderall and have not noticed any bad side-effects, with the exception that I wake up a couple of times at night, and as long as I don't open my eyes when I'm aware that I just woke up, I promptly go back to sleep. I take 3 to 5 days "off" once every other week, like my Doc advised me to, in order to prevent my tolerance from increasing, and needing more mgs / day. I do have a couple of friends, in their early 20s, who were diagnosed with ADHD recently, and are on higher doses. They both work for startups in SF, 1 at BitFlyer and another at some SaaS startup in the Workshop Cafe building. They both say that they need it to "get in the zone" and get the gruntwork in startup world done. I am not aware of widespread use of stimulants like Modafinil or Adderall or Ritalin in the startup world here in SF. But like others have stated, it's somewhat of a tabboo to speak about usage, because, in 1 sense, it "exposes" you and your collegues will never look at you the same way as they'll think you are "cheating" using a "performance enhancer" drug, which in some ways, are what Modafinil , Adderall, Ritalin and other stimulants are. |