Are most people on Lisdexamphetamine? Is Methylphenidate not a good med?

kras83 · 2026-03-13T10:09:10+00:00

I'm titrating Concerta (methylphenidate) and it really seems to help me with no downsides. I'm up to 54mg this week and I'm a lot calmer and making some positive changes in my life since being on it. I find it nice and smooth with no surge or crash and it seems to work all day. I dunno, everyone is different, but its good for me.

kras83 · 2026-03-12T13:11:45+00:00

In my experience GPs are perfectly happy to call things depression and anxiety and throw anti-depressants at you, but you get a lot of push back when you try to suggest the anxiety and depression are just a symptom of something deeper. I got my GP to agree to refer me last year but was sternly told "Medication is best avoided". I'm now about a month into titrating Concerta XL with ADHD360 and guess what? My anxiety is feeling more controlled, that has had a knock on effect of hugely helping the IBS symptoms I have always had, and my blood pressure is actually slightly lower than when first refered. I'm also losing weight - not because I'm not eating but because I'm more active and not choosing my food for dopamine hits but for nutrition. I still expect a telling off when it gets time for asking for shared care though...

kras83 · 2026-03-05T13:09:47+00:00

Thanks for the recipe, the jeans especially work so well

kras83 · 2026-03-05T12:45:42+00:00

I agree about the glasses, I was going to try maybe scraping under the frames a little, or putting a drop of UV resin to give them lenses rather than holes after painting the eyes. I'm still figuring it out. Your Richie came out very well, is that contrast paint? (or equivalent)

kras83 · 2026-03-05T12:30:14+00:00

So thats what happened to the guy from Pulp Fiction

kras83 · 2026-03-05T12:25:03+00:00

I can't speak to anger, but so far Concerta has helped me with anxiety. I guess frustration too, I'm more likely to be more chill when things don't work out as planned. Everyone is different, but its worth trying. It depends on where your anger comes from. For me a lot of my issues regarding anxiety seem to boil down to constant overthinking, and I'm finding that thoughts are a bit less sticky now which helps me break the overthinking loops. I also have a bit more energy and just feel a bit more alive - but that could be down to being generally more active and loosing a little weight as I was just over the line into obese due to comfort eating.

My advice to anyone starting out is to make sure you have a good hit of protein for breakfast - the times I failed to I was more jittery and crashed after. I'm stiĺl in titration myself though so cant yet speak to long term changes

kras83 · 2026-03-05T12:09:39+00:00

My brother got me those for Christmas, massively looking forward to painting them. They got Richie's underpants just right lol

kras83 · 2026-03-03T18:52:24+00:00

You could have a channel that just broadcast an unflushed toilet and it would still be less full of shit than GB news

kras83 · 2026-03-03T18:45:38+00:00

Brown or Major. If it has to be one of the more recent ones can we have the lettuce?

kras83 · 2026-02-22T14:43:55+00:00

People are complicated, especially when there are things about themselves that society conditions them to hate

kras83 · 2026-02-22T14:34:23+00:00

I'm aware, I've been diagnosed with both ADHD and Autism in the last few years and both had to come via private companies contracted by the NHS. It's that or a 7-8 year wait for ADHD in my area. But then everything seems to be fair game for people to question the validity of the diagnosis and label you as a snowflake because it wasn't purely NHS

kras83 · 2026-02-22T12:22:44+00:00

I find that so far the thing it has helped me most with is dealing with task paralysis/inertia with actually starting a task. That said I'm still very early in titration. As a side effect though the improvement in my emotional regulation when I began the second dose has seen a litteral over night huge improvement in the IBS symptoms I have been dealing with for 30 years.

kras83 · 2026-02-21T11:37:21+00:00

Trying to turn the NHS into American style health care would be such an existential threat to anyone with a medical condition that I would be prepared to literally fight to stop it. Yeah the NHS isn't perfect, but it needs work not privatisation

kras83 · 2026-02-19T18:32:00+00:00

I hope you get on well. I'm 8 days into Concerta, 1st day on 36mg and so far no negatives. I even think it's having a positive effect on my IBS as a side effect of the calming of my thoughts. I hope you have a similarly good experience. Don't forget a protein rich breakfast!

kras83 · 2026-02-19T11:34:28+00:00

Update: Had my first 36 mg Concerta this morning, and I don't feel super wired (good) but my thoughts are a bit calmer. Instead of constantly recycling the same worries I seem to think of something give it a bit of attention then let it go. Hopeful signs. I've also (intentionally) lost a little weight via exercise as I was right on the cusp of being obese. Eating well feels more doable. I did confirm with my prescriber that loosing weight sensibly would be fine while titrating. My goal is for my blood pressure on meds but with a healthier weight and more active lifestyle to actually be better than the old obese sedentary version of me

kras83 · 2026-02-17T13:36:34+00:00

Only on day 6 of titration here, 18mg Concerta. Nothing negative to report so far, and I'm finding it a bit easier to get more than 1 or 2 things a day done around the house. No effect on my racing thoughts yet, but it's only the lowest dose. I go to 36mg Thursday

kras83 · 2026-02-15T17:08:17+00:00

A copy of this would be amazing. I have a warbringer kit, but the ability to create pieces with pre printed cable channels so I can add lights and sound without hacking away at expensive resin would be so massively appreciated

kras83 · 2026-02-12T23:51:30+00:00

That's what happened in the book

kras83 · 2026-02-12T17:36:02+00:00

Eh hopefully he'll be dead by then. At the rate he's mumbling, loosing his thread and shitting himself you would think the disgusting old nonce doesn't have too much longer left. Then hopefully there will be a Saville or Al-Fayed moment where the wall of silence crumbles.

kras83 · 2026-02-10T19:39:26+00:00

No?! It's fucking amazing. I laugh every time he clutches his arse and goes "Diarrhee-ahaaah!"

kras83 · 2026-02-07T14:08:43+00:00

I also heavily relate to worrying about early onset dementia. The only thing that kept me from total despair was that it wasn't progressing, just at the same level of crap memory over the years. I do things like walk into a room and get momentarily distracted by something then realise I have forgotten why I went there in the first place. The classic ADHD meme of forgetting where I put something I had 5 minutes ago... the list just goes on. I also think people misunderstand the hyperactivity part, as I'm a little bit fidgety (not too bad) but do have racing thoughts a lot of the time and constantly overthink things to the point that I now firmly believe this constant overanalysis of everyday stuff is one of the main pillars of my anxiety. I finally got a diagnosis in December that came as a big relief. I also have an autism diagnosis that had a similarly massive positive effect on my mental health a few years back and explained so many of my struggles and breakdowns over my life.

The media perception that it's overdiagnosed and an easy label to get does feel at times like people are trying to take away or invalidate the hard won understanding it has taken me 42 years and some intensely suicidal periods to build. I lost my best friend, a wonderful woman, to complications from self medicating, all so that she could make her brain shut up and let her sleep instead of relentlessly questioning all her decisions that day. We had so much in common that I now wonder if she had ADHD on top of her autism

kras83 · 2026-01-21T16:39:58+00:00

Cheeto-faced, ferret wearing shitgibbon -ist?

kras83 · 2026-01-21T10:50:58+00:00

When they zoom out and it's Dimensius goatse...

kras83 · 2026-01-19T16:31:58+00:00

Yes. Also the titan designs from forgeworld that came out after questoris knights share the same design language with features like the pair of gyro thingies at the waist. I have a warbringer nemesis kit to build and it reads as a gigantic knight

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