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.
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Yeah same, for me it was like fitting in the molecule I was missing my whole life. Transformative
huh i got a horrible anxiety spike. glad it's going good for someone
Oh no! I have seen that some people have a shit time. Feels like I lucked out honestly.
Did you try any different meds?
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
Try Wellbutrin, much easier to get prescribed
I've been prescribed Wellbutrin several times in the past and I don't see the parallel to Adderall
it's definitely not similar but it is a common offlabel for adhd. sorry that it doesn't seem to help with yours :(
that's okay, thanks for the suggestion anyhow
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.
What med?
Elvanse. I think it might be called Vyvanse in Murica.
what's "yaknow"?
I've never seen a real yak (in person) neither now nor any other time
Taking the limitless pill that turns off 10% of my brain so I can focus on doing my work reports.
oh look, it's a post about me 
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.
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)


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