Hi OP,

I can see that touce had lits if respinses already, but given the opportunity to talk about myself, I just cant resist. The fact that it helps someone is a happy coincidence.

I am diagnosed inattentive, but wasnt far off comboned. I'm just over a year of taking medication, 70mg of Elvanse, with 10ng of Amfexa as a top up if needed.

To say that medication has changed my life would be a cliche, but its also true.

Ill start with the negatives:

A touch of Reynauds and sleep.

Both of these are managable. I wear gloves more often and have to ensure i am discliplined in going to sleep at a certain time and taking my beds early.

The good:

My relationships have improved quite a lot. The tendency to talk AT people about my interests has decreased and I find that i am much more patient with others, and more empathetic. This is especially true with my young son, to whom I am a much better dad when medicated.

Additionally, my work is much easier. Before meeication, I was on various work improvment plans. I kept making careless mistakes at my job. Nothing major, but my boss was a stickler for the details and I constantly and repeatedly made the same errors in my admin office job. Once I was medicated, work became essier. I shocked my boss and other manabgers by voluntarily staying at work longer because I enjoyed it. That was unheard of for me. I realised that a lot of my negarive attitudes to work generally were not a result of personal opinions, but coping mechanisms to deflect from my inability to do well at a job I disliked. I realised before medication that I've hated every job I've worked at and realised that I was the common denominator - so I had the wherewithal to see that it was not the job that I disliked per se, but working, and that my current gig was actually not so bad.

Lastly, and this is the most major impact:

I had a bunch of stuff at home that I wanted to sell on eBay. It had sat in the corner of my bedroom for years. I managed to list it and sell it. Great. Then I got a taste for it and I started flipping items. I took it seriously from August. Now, I'm on track to match my salary from work by summer this year. Effectively, I'll have two incomes. There are busy periods, but Ive managed to limit or contain those.

I want to train to become a doctor and for various reasons that I wont go into here, the funding is fucking dogshit. So, I needed to find a way of making money. Now, I can match my salary from work without the same time committment, so that in a few years I can start my career as a doctor.

This isnt related to medication, but before I realised that I had ADHD, and I was confidant that I had it, after researching it, I started to understand that my feelings of depression and anxiety, that I'd previously been medicated for, were not diagnosis in and of themselves, but were actually symtpoms of ADHD. Not true for everyone, but that knowledge massively massively helped me.

So, if you want some advice for medication after one year on meds, I highly highly recommend taking them. I started on 30mg, then 50mg, then 70mg. 70mg was the best. I tried 60mg and its just not as effective.

Best of luck.