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What Causes Severe Itchiness All Over The Body After Taking Vyvanse?
Ive been taking Vyvanse for a couple of months now and I just started itching everywhere a couple of weeks ago. Im not sure if its a delayed mild side effect from the medicine that will hopefully go away or if its due to a change in my detergent (which my unscented detergent is now on order) I plan on just not taking my meds for a few days to try and rule the side effect issue out while I wait on new detergent to come in . What are your thoughts???
Thu, 14 Nov 2019
Hello,
Dermatologic conditions are hard to discuss without seeing them. Specifically, this is seen in most of my ADHD patients and it can be from nerves from ADHD or nerves from amphetamine.
OR, it can be a dermatologic condition such as an allergy to something on the skin; even bug bites. There are some serious conditions that give this.
They are uncommon and even more uncommon to have the itching and not other obvious signs of serious disease like turning olive-green (advanced cirrhosis), having skin breakdown, or blowing up like a puffer fish.
Anti-histamines with sedation work on most of the non-serious causes.
Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.
Take care
Regards,
Dr Matt Wachsman, Addiction Medicine Specialist
Dermatologic conditions are hard to discuss without seeing them. Specifically, this is seen in most of my ADHD patients and it can be from nerves from ADHD or nerves from amphetamine.
OR, it can be a dermatologic condition such as an allergy to something on the skin; even bug bites. There are some serious conditions that give this.
They are uncommon and even more uncommon to have the itching and not other obvious signs of serious disease like turning olive-green (advanced cirrhosis), having skin breakdown, or blowing up like a puffer fish.
Anti-histamines with sedation work on most of the non-serious causes.
Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.
Take care
Regards,
Dr Matt Wachsman, Addiction Medicine Specialist
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