Adult ADHD

Joining this thread now, I was prescribed ritalin as a kid, hated it, ended up selling it to other kids at school (I wasnt the best kid)

Fast forward, my partner got prescribed some medication for focus and offered me one on a day when I really needed to work, it was vyvanse.

I remember now why i hate stimulant type stuff and these kinds of meds. The anxiety was almost crushing during the day, heart rate flutters, jittery, agitation, what an awful experience. I have a history with illegal drugs, and it took me straight back to it, I actually had similar thoughts, mind frame everything.
 
syntax said:
Joining this thread now, I was prescribed ritalin as a kid, hated it, ended up selling it to other kids at school (I wasnt the best kid)

Fast forward, my partner got prescribed some medication for focus and offered me one on a day when I really needed to work, it was vyvanse.

I remember now why i hate stimulant type stuff and these kinds of meds. The anxiety was almost crushing during the day, heart rate flutters, jittery, agitation, what an awful experience. I have a history with illegal drugs, and it took me straight back to it, I actually had similar thoughts, mind frame everything.
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If that is how it affects you, you're more then likely not actually an ADHD sufferer.
 
Lupus said:
If that is how it affects you, you're more then likely not actually an ADHD sufferer.
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Possible, or he could just have a bad reaction to methylphenidate. The meds don't work the same for everyone.
 
Mars said:
Possible, or he could just have a bad reaction to methylphenidate. The meds don't work the same for everyone.
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Might need something like Inir instead which doesn’t have the stimulant ups and downs.

It’s also better for anxiety.
 
Aghori said:
You need drugs. Cocaine, whiskey, opiates, SNRI's and a weekly perverted pomp with a dirty prossie.

Sorted me out in 3 months.
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Though I'm sure the antibiotics and Prep you pop makes you feel amazing.
 
SauRoNZA said:
Might need something like Inir instead which doesn’t have the stimulant ups and downs.

It’s also better for anxiety.
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A friend was telling me about that, his Dr switched him over.
 
Mars said:
Possible, or he could just have a bad reaction to methylphenidate. The meds don't work the same for everyone.
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Sure but then a chat to the medical practitioner and you get things adjusted :)
 
Lupus said:
A friend was telling me about that, his Dr switched him over.
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Yeah it takes a lot longer to become effective and more important to keep taking it every day.

Works better for people who struggle with the very direct effects of the stimulant alternatives but isn’t as obvious.
 
Doing grocery shopping on the Saturday, during Black Friday weekend, bobbing and weaving through the crowded isles at speed while the music I was playing in the car playing my head and 1.5x speed, thinking about how different I'd be handling this situation if I was on meds.
 
SauRoNZA said:
Yeah it takes a lot longer to become effective and more important to keep taking it every day.

Works better for people who struggle with the very direct effects of the stimulant alternatives but isn’t as obvious.
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Yeah apparently helps people who have anxiety as well and it doesn't have the crashes.
 
Polymathic said:
Doing grocery shopping on the Saturday, during Black Friday weekend, bobbing and weaving through the crowded isles at speed while the music I was playing in the car playing my head and 1.5x speed, thinking about how different I'd be handling this situation if I was on meds.
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Maybe play it at normal speed like a normal person and you won’t need the meds?

Literally inducing urgency and anxiety in everything with that.
 
SauRoNZA said:
Maybe play it at normal speed like a normal person and you won’t need the meds?

Literally inducing urgency and anxiety in everything with that.
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I would love to know what isles are in a shop though, I mean what waterways run through them
 
Lupus said:
If that is how it affects you, you're more then likely not actually an ADHD sufferer.
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Maybe, I have had so many diagnosis over 30 years.
Pretty sure I have bipolar type 2

Was ADD diagnosed as a kid, then ADHD was the term used later. The meds helped in a way, but the side effects have always been brutal. The crushing anxiety is very very difficult to manage
 
SauRoNZA said:
Maybe play it at normal speed like a normal person and you won’t need the meds?

Literally inducing urgency and anxiety in everything with that.
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I do better in situations that require urgency, strangely find I'm calmer and think better in those types situations than normal ones that's without meds I suspect if I had to take the meds that wouldn't be the case anymore.

When I play songs in my head, my mind tends to loop and specific part of a song and increases the speed every loop.

Lupus said:
I would love to know what isles are in a shop though, I mean what waterways run through them
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I think I'm in need of a aisle-land holiday
 
syntax said:
Maybe, I have had so many diagnosis over 30 years.
Pretty sure I have bipolar type 2

Was ADD diagnosed as a kid, then ADHD was the term used later. The meds helped in a way, but the side effects have always been brutal. The crushing anxiety is very very difficult to manage
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About 20 years ago I started off with Strattera (the Norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor) and it started to work well. Unfortunately, finances became an issue and I had to switch to a stimulative equivalent.

It's only during exceptionally stressful work scenarios that I won't take it. If I do then I also get way to stressed.

Overall I actually have a chilled job. Still happy with the normal Methylphenidate.
 
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