i know vitamin c basically neutralizes adhd meds but lemonade good
yea lol
ADHD Medication information sheet
I have been struggling
For a long fucking time
with why my adderall was having such uneven effects and varying efficacy
and the weird pattern of what made it work and not work and if it was building up in my system or not
and fucking nobody told me I shouldn’t drink a glass of Kool-Aid to take the pills with
or eat fucking Pop-Tarts or Life cereal
this is the most useful information I have ever received from tubr and it seems to be confirmed by several other places upon searching
so this actually should be spread like wildfire like actually
Me reading this realizing tunglr dawt kom gave me more information about my medication than MYDOCTORRRRRSSSSSS MYYYYYYYY FUCKENNNNN DOCTORSSSSS PLURAL MULTIPLE DOCTORSSSSSSSS
Reblogging to spread this ridiculously important info
Generally speaking, your doctors actually may not know these things. This is the kind of stuff to ask your pharmacist about.
Ok what the actual fuck , why does nobody tell you this like , wtf
Citric Acid is added to A LOT of food items as a preservative and flavoring agent. Things you may not even consider having it. Check ingredient labels on everything!!!❤️
PS: Citrus affects SO MANY other drugs as well. Check your info sheet, or go online for contraindications and drug reaction info.
**For those saying this is misinformation: citrus DOES render some meds ineffective. I have to even disclose this to owners that give their dogs fruit treats ( just like milk products affecting some meds too). Keep in mind a lot of the meds I’m dispensing for veterinary use ARE ALSO originally used for human patients (vet industry does a lot of off label use).
When in doubt, talk to your prescribing physician. Then, if still in doubt, talk to your pharmacist.
Be aware that a lot of this stuff is 1. Still actively being studied; and 2. Dependent on a variety of factors, including dosages and genetics.
Also, neutralize is a rather hyperbolic choice of word. Current studies indicate that some fruits and fruit juices can reduce the efficacy of certain drugs. Also for some drugs it actually causes an inverse reaction where it results in too much of the drug entering the bloodstream, thereby causing toxicity.
By FDA graphic by Michael J. Ermarth - Author; Kaidor - Vectorization. - Own work based on: Grapefruit Juice and Medicine May Not Mix, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=122098363
(Yes the above image is about grapefruit juice. Grapefruit happens to be the fruit this interaction was first discovered with and the one currently most studied.)
To suggest that a glass of orange juice can completely negate the affects of stimulant medication is disingenuous at best and downright misinformation at worst. It’d be more accurate to say that taking your meds with orange juice might make them less effective, thereby necessitating a higher dose for an equivalent effect than if you only ever drank water.
Finally, nothing I have found indicates it is the citric acid causing this effect. It seems to be a completely unrelated type of molecule, enzymes called furanocoumarins. These enzymes seem to bind to certain enzymes in the liver and/or intestines (Cytochrome P450) which in turn can — again, increase or decrease depending on the drug — affect how readily some medications are absorbed into the body.
That said, I’m no chemist, much less a doctor. Frankly a lot of the technical and detailed scientific explanations sailed right over my head. Bringing us back to the original point.
TL;DR - Talk to the people prescribing your medications and/or the people filling those prescriptions about any concerns you have about potential interactions between different drugs, your diet, or other lifestyle factors you suspect could be having an effect.
Anyone on the internet could be wrong, lying, or trying to sell you something. Especially so on one of the last remaining websites with any sense of anonymity. Double especially so in this, the era of AI slop.
Please talk to a real person in real life about this stuff.
Your health and molecules are too important not to seek out the best, most credible sources of information available to you. And if you’re taking ADHD meds, you definitely have a prescribing doctor who you are already paying (or paying the insurance to pay) to ask these questions to.




















