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Yaknow the first thing i realised about ADHD medication? (hexbear.net)
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The feeling I assumed was anxiety my whole life was gone. The uneasy feeling of dread or that I was forgetting something of terminal importance. The way stuff bounced around in my head and made me ruminate on unnecessary things. I just never had a word for it before now.

This whole time I've been in SNRIs that are supposed to help with the same things, but never quite did enough.

I'm only 2 weeks in and it isnt like taking the limitless pill or anything but even just that is a relief rn 🥹

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yay - glad you got that feeling! Keep it rolling by taking care of yourself and drinking lots of water 😎

Unsolicited advice that you’re probably already doing- but it’s a good time to find a therapist (and less so a psychiatrist) familiar with ADHD and with whom you connect.

Like you said, the changes in neurochemistry cause pretty major shifts in how one approaches life and, as someone diagnosed later in life, I’ve appreciated the guidance in navigating those shifts. Also, having a professional to consistently talk with has helped with med management (e.g. watching for more manic or depressed moods over time).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

thank you! I've been recommended a secret trick to get my work-based medical insurance to cover it

secret(Bupa UK doesn't cover therapists for ADHD/ASD, but does cover "emotional instability" and lets you pick ADHD specialists)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh also “acceptance and commitment therapy” has been what’s clicked best with me - and that was outside of professional therapy- but ymmv on what works and doesn’t. (It kinda feels like a weird secular Buddhism but hey whatever works lol)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KauRG6s50dM

^ and this is how I generally feel as a reluctant therapy-goer

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

Taking the limitless pill that turns off 10% of my brain so I can focus on doing my work reports.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

For me it was first really awesome, I had suddenly way more time (I don’t feel time normally straight and sometimes I kinda freezed in place thinking stuff without really realising), after about two weeks, I realised what tasks and actions I always wanted or had to do but neglected as they faded away in my neurodivergence brain, they don’t do that, while I am on medication. But that let to a an overload and I had burn out symptoms for two weeks. Since yesterday, I feel awesome after a break of medication in the weekend (I suppose my sender neurons where too empty from a MD trip and because of medication the refill process of the botebstoffe was too slow.. who knows, but in the end, I think, it had a positive after effect after all.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

oh look, it's a post about me doggirl-kiss

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

pristiq and rits gang wya?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

yeah.. someone at work gave me one of her pills and suddenly my mind went quiet and i could focus.. it was a stunning moment for me. I eventually got a dr to rx me adderall and I took it for a couple years until I lost my job and couldn't afford either the dr or the medication anymore

now i can't find a dr who will prescribe it again

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Try Wellbutrin, much easier to get prescribed

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've been prescribed Wellbutrin several times in the past and I don't see the parallel to Adderall

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

it's definitely not similar but it is a common offlabel for adhd. sorry that it doesn't seem to help with yours :(

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

that's okay, thanks for the suggestion anyhow

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

From some other people I know, general practitioners are more likely to prescribe Vyvanse or Ritalin than Adderall because they're much less easily/commonly abused, whereas psychs with a diagnosed patient prefer Adderall because it's just better.

Vyvanse is pretty much the same active ingredient as Adderall but designed (in multiple ways that are more complicated than anyone cares to know) to be way less possible to abuse. Vyvanse doesn't have a generic so it's a little pricey.

Ritalin is a different simulant than Adderall that has a shorter half life and is less commonly abused for a couple of reasons.

You might have better luck with getting a prescription for one of those two if your doctor isn't willing to give you the good stuff.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

that's a strange recommendation, imo. wellbutrin is a different kind of drug than adderall, so responding well to adderall doesn't say much/anything about how they might respond to wellburin. according to google, it's not approved by the FDA for treating ADHD, so idk how easy it would be to get it prescribed for off-label use

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

It's really easy in my experience, pretty well known and common to doctors for off label for adhd

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

huh i got a horrible anxiety spike. glad it's going good for someone

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh no! I have seen that some people have a shit time. Feels like I lucked out honestly.

Did you try any different meds?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

uh i had one stimulant that helped a little but not enough, and one that fucked me up so much i'll never take another amphetamine

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Those first few weeks are like being given wings. Then your brain gets used to the meds and tries to go back to being the lazy little shithead that it's always been.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My psychiatrist recommended I take about 5 days off every month, to kind of reset the brain's sensibility to the pharmaceutical, and to have the same effect as at the beginning. I'm on the last day of my very first break, so if it works I'll let y'all know.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

That advice is common but outdated. Skipping days can make a psychological difference because the contrast between medicated and unmedicated is so stark but you don't actually restore pharmacological sensitivity in a week or two.

You never get that first superhero feeling back because you can't go from being non-functional to functional for the first time in your life again. Being medicated starts to feel normal (which is good) and being unmedicated starts to feel really horrible (which it is but you didn't have context for how bad it was before). For me I skip doses solely to build up a back stock for when there is inevitably a shortage or prescription delay.

A lot of people think that the meds aren't helping after a while because of that first incredible phase where you feel like you can do anything. That's not what they're supposed to do for you. They're supposed to make it possible for you to control what you focus on. The actual work of completely rewiring your brain is intensive and exhausting and realistically can only go so far. Somehow that doesn't get properly communicated to people who are recently diagnosed.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

The next realization is that the meds are not meant to allow you to hyperfocus 100% of the time but to moderate your attention to a steady baseline somewhere between hyperfocus and dead to the world.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It’s kind of like spending a few decades with shackles around your legs and finally getting them taken off. Problem is you now have to learn to walk. And you’re much past the age where people will show you how.

ADHD meds are great, but you have to exercise your executive functioning in order to get the full benefit. It sucks.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

Yeah, I tell people that medication alone won't fix your bad unproductive habits but it definitely can make you way better and more focused at those bad habits.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Half the struggle of having ADHD and being medicated is suppressing the urge to just play cookie clicker all day every day

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

me when someone asks me for help at work and they get a 15 paragraph response coz i cant stop typing

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

I am suppressing the urge to learn about cookie clicker. Whatever it is, keep it away! 😬🤣

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What med?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Elvanse. I think it might be called Vyvanse in Murica.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

Yeah same, for me it was like fitting in the molecule I was missing my whole life. Transformative

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (3 children)

what's "yaknow"?

I've never seen a real yak (in person) neither now nor any other time

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

smells like yaknow in here

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

who's steve jobs?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

I was saying Yak NowI-was-saying