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by JohnBooty 1592 days ago
Not the parent poster, but I suppose an extra data point would not be a bad thing.

My main point of comparison for Adderall withdrawal would be caffeine withdrawal. I don't have experiences with other dependencies.

"Cold turkey" caffeine withdrawal was much more severe than Adderall withdrawal for me. Probably twice as bad. In both cases, I felt extremely fatigued. However, severe caffeine withdrawal went beyond "fatigue" and really made me feel like total shit.

Everybody is different but I believe this is consistent with what most people report.

Of course, there is no real reason to go "cold turkey" and quit suddenly. For both substances can just taper your dosage steadily down to 0mg over a week or two and you should be fine.