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me, in the grocery store looking for ADHD med friendly breakfast juices squinting at cartons: any of you fuckers here got antiscurvy added in there??

For those of you just tuning in: drinking or eating anything even mildly acidic an hour before or after you take your ADHD meds can pretty much negate their effects. Vitamin C, aka Abscorbic Acid, aka “natural preservatives” is an acid that can do just that.

Which is why I start my day with a glass of chocolate milk like my third grade self wished I could lol.

I talked to my actual medical doctor about this. she had never heard of it, so she looked at a few medical journals, then said ‘oh! yeah, that’s wrong.’

people taking recreational stimulants would use vitamin c to get the drugs out of their system before taking a drug test. They would have to consume huge amounts of it (like, multiple vitamin c SUPPLEMENTS, not just a couple glasses of oj) to have a chance of passing, and even that didn’t always work.

point is, my doctor assured me that having a glass of orange juice for breakfast should have negligible, if any, affects on your adhd medicine. I recommend asking your own doctors abt it at ur next appointment.

actually since tags get removed:

- your doctor who prescribes your stuff knows the dosage better than anyone on tumblr

- FDA labels and the like have to put every single possible thing down on the manual. almost everything is contraindicated for diabetes because there are so many diabetics that someone is bound to have a diabetes-related reaction to something. it doesn’t mean it’s guaranteed or common

- most articles i looked into agreed that you have to take like a TON of supplemental vitamin c. not just the amount that would begin to replenish your usual levels, but an excessive amount

- consuming a small amount of vitamin c along with your medication will not impact it anymore than the usual levels of the vitamin in your body that it would have encountered anyways

- if you find a difference when taking a stimulant with and without vitamin c, talk to you doctor about determining causality and then what to do about it

- the chemicals in grapefruit that cause such significant medication interactions are furanocoumarin chemicals. they aren’t highly prevalent in other citrus

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