Doctor wants me on Adderall, I've had bad reactions to it

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I've had trouble focusing, and my doctor wants to take me off Ritalin and put me on Concerta (which is longer lasting)

If that doesn't work he wants me on adderall. I took it before, 12-13 years ago, but only took it for one day, because it gave me awful hallucinations that really scared me. My doctor wants me to try it again, but I'm obviously apprehensive

You hold the ultimate trump card. You are the patient. Without a court order, the physician may only recommend a medication, not force you to accept it.

I have had the same behavior from several of my physicians. I use the following responses in order:

1) I don't tolerate that medication well [physicians understand a patient's "informed consent" and the word "tolerate," so it will shift the conversation in your favor].

2) I have tried that medication before and had side effects such as ___ [legally, physicians try to avoid admitted side effects, so it will continue to shift the conversation in your favor].

3) I have personal or religious reasons to avoid that medication [this response usually shuts them up because most states have laws that require a patient's exemption from medical care based on personal and religious reasons unless a court orders the patient to comply].

Good luck!

Try it a couple days and see how it goes.. I feel exercising helps me more. But do try it

...or take the prescription and sell it to college kids on the black market.

ask your pdoc to let you try Strattera instead, I can vouch that it is the mildest [side effect-wise] of all the frontal lobe stimulants.