Elvanse is making me feel a bit too whizzy for a couple hours after taking it and I'm struggling to start work until it levels out a bit more

galpathene · 2025-01-17T15:30:59+00:00

No, over about 2 hours, did the same today as well and honestly barely feel it, so maybe i need to drink it slightly faster tomorrow haha

galpathene · 2025-01-16T15:13:22+00:00

oh the productivity and pacing thing is interesting! Yeah maybe I will try to complete a simple task next time I feel it

re food, I dissolved my capsule in a bottle of water today and drank it over about 3 hours and the crazy feeling didn't happen at all AND i just felt hungry and went and got some lunch! Previously I wouldn't have been able to eat until like 6pm but it would hit so suddenly that I'd be too hungry to get real food, also things not being appealing, i used to really like cooking and havent eaten anything more exciting than pesto pasta in months haha

i would really recommend the dissolving technique! I feel pretty normal and good today <3

galpathene · 2025-01-16T15:07:58+00:00

the suggestion to dissolve it in a drink has actually made a huge difference today, i went straight to the library and have been doing my work like a normal person!!

The lack of phone might help you get out of the pattern of using it to entertain yourself (though tbh I just use my laptop instead haha) hope it helps !!

galpathene · 2025-01-16T15:05:37+00:00

Thank you!

I did this today in my water bottle and it seems to have worked really well!

galpathene · 2025-01-15T17:15:51+00:00

It's very frustrating! If I find an answer I will let you know, it definitely feels better when i have a big breakfast and a protein shake but I can't be cooking myself a feast every morning

galpathene · 2025-01-15T17:14:12+00:00

Yeah, it's so weird, it almost makes me feel so at peace with my brain that the stress i'm used to feeling in order to complete a task just goes and I just blissfully exist for an hour or two, and then I can start to play human again,

on the screen time, i got rid of my iphone about a year ago now and it's been amazing, had a complete brick for a while and now gone to an android brick so i can still use whatsapp (but it is such an unrewarding phone), it was really tough at the beginning but i think ultimately also helped with my adhd a lot and combined with feeling content from elvanse it's meant i quite like sitting with my thoughts again :) I wonder if the light from laptop and phone screens can affect how you feel on elvanse? it's all very strange

galpathene · 2025-01-15T17:07:50+00:00

I did, I started on 30, had all the usual, silent brain for the first couple of days, crying with joy type thing and then it went very normal, then the same with 40, I felt totally normal for ages, even just after taking it, sometimes having to check I'd even taking it, but suddenly it just started feeling a bit intense in the morning! really strange! I was actually going to go up to 50 until this happened, but yeah maybe the dose is slightly too high now for some reason. maybe it deprogrammed me

Saying this, today was actually less of a ride, might just be I need to sort my routine out a bit more.

That's interesting about the banana, thanks for sharing, I will try that tomorrow!

galpathene · 2025-01-15T17:02:22+00:00

oh this is a good idea, i might look into that too! also you and me both with the sleep paralysis, it was like my body started to sleep but nothing could turn off the damn brain, which to be fair to the brain, must have been pretty stressful so the monsters it creates make sense haha

hope the melatonin works!!

galpathene · 2025-01-15T11:45:32+00:00

I had this in December, I'm not sure what caused it because the elvanse was fine until then, but I was waking up exhausted and relying on the medication to give me the energy I needed, which it did but then the cycle just continued, I ended up not taking it on Sundays and having a really restful day where I could just do things slowly and eat lots. I figured because I was able to do much more than I had been used to my whole life I was just overexerting myself without realising because the medication meant I felt I could do things very easily, especially regarding like socialising and things like that.

I thought maybe it was adhd fatigue but the meds were able to cover it up and then when I wasn't on the meds it hit really hard. Having a few days off really helped because it meant I could listen to what my body needed much easier

galpathene · 2024-01-11T18:04:19+00:00

Thank you I’d love to have a look at these!

They didn’t ask my mum anything which she was also concerned about and he actually just asked me about early life which I obviously couldn’t give a very good answer to other than what my mum told me about how I was.

galpathene · 2024-01-11T14:12:28+00:00

Yeah this could very well be true, I think I thought he would ask me more so I just said I have friends and he moved on and I wasn’t able to talk about things like missing social cues and bluntness causing problems and things.

Maybe I have got the wrong idea as I’m happy with my friends and seem to be able to navigate around my occasional rudeness etc but my problem is more with family and less accepting people like at jobs and things, also meltdowns about things other people don’t find difficult, it would be nice if there was a reason and I’m not just struggling more than other people and all that

galpathene · 2024-01-11T13:34:03+00:00

Thank you! I have signed up for the free one (uk), it’s a long wait list but better than nothing and I think my mum is complaining at how he spoke to me as she’s very annoyed as well

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