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Does adderall make you lose weight?

i have to start taking it for add
and everyone says that it makes you lose weight
and i hope it does cuz i'm trying to lose weight

and if it does
why?

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It decreases your appetite so you don't eat as much and thus you lose weight. It also raises your heart rate which helps burn more calories. The problem is that you are losing weight in a very unhealthy way, as soon as you stop taking it your will eat more and your body will store a lot more calories and make you gain even more weight than you lost.

If you are taking it as prescribed, you will eventually get used to it and be able t eat normally. The problem is when kids and adults alike take high doses without a prescription and become addicted. As soon as they run out of money which happens fast because Adderall is expensive on the street they gain the weight back and have a whole lot of other problems from the addiction.

Basically, you will lose weight initially, them you will go back to normal.

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• it wont really have any weight loss affects if you are add.
  adderall is a prescription drug that is abused by non-add people to get a speeding buzz.
  so those people will see loss of appetite as a side effect when they cant eat from speeding. but seeing as you are add it will slow your add