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I find that 10mg of a Concerta derivative make me enjoy the positive aspects of my disorder -- ADHD inattentive type -- while preventing the negatives. I was already a working adult when I first tried medicating and it's been a life changing experience. I take one dose on a weekday morning when I have to concentrate on manual tasks and I skip the dose when I want to use more of my imagination for concept and idea gathering.

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Outside of the dosage, seconding this! Also inattentive flavoured ADHD. 70mg Elvanse usually allows me to be a productive day to day person, skipping the dose on Saturdays is where I let myself freely roam the internet and tinker with new software, languages, systems, coming up with fiction, coming up with sketches for a TV show that will probably never see the light of day, etc. Sundays get a dose as normal but I use that for housework and the likes. I've been brushing up on Kubernetes most recently, I don't need it anywhere right now but who knows where it (or the concepts in and around it) will come up. Also it's kinda cool honestly :)

It's the best of both worlds.. as best as I have got it so far in 35 years anyway, not perfect, but it mostly works - I can earn enough to survive without having to actually forage in bushes, and I get to learn stuff that's interesting but not immediately useful for that all-natural dopamine fix.

The not immediately useful stuff often combines with future problems and becomes a "genius" solution, haha. If you ever want to be called a genius all you have to do is plug two seemingly separate things you know into each other.

How long does 70mg Elvanse last for you?

Generally I feel like my brain is winding down at around 11pm usually, after taking them somewhere between 7 and 9am (depending on when I pick up my phone and see the reminder to take them)

Every so often I swear they've chucked a few placebos in there and I still manage to get nothing done, but aye a decent ~12 hours or so of focus/dopamine most days

This sounds great, wish it was like this for me...

> Every so often I swear they've chucked a few placebos in there and I still manage to get nothing done, but aye a decent ~12 hours or so of focus/dopamine most days

Perfect, I'm not the only who experiences this haha

It did take a fair bit of trial and error with different meds and dosages to find the one that actually seemed to do something - if the medication isn't working it's definitely worth reporting back to the doctor prescribing to see what the next option is

How do you handle falling asleep in the evening?

While my Elvanse dose is merely half of yours it always seems to affect my nervous system for much too long, keeping me unable to sleep before 3am on weekdays on the average.

Sleep is a wobbly one aye.

Some nights no bother at all - I've been getting way more of these nights on meds than off, others it'll be a 3am one (2-3am has been my norm for as long as I can remember so it's not made it worse as such), and on the odd occasion I'll keep myself busy with something all night and do a double day.

Unfortunately no solid answer there, I take the meds first thing in the morning and hope I'll be able get to sleep later. Fortunately (for me) this has been my norm for as long as I can remember either way so at least nothing is worse!

> I take the meds first thing in the morning and hope I'll be able get to sleep later.

This has been my crutch as well, basically setting an alarm for an hour earlier than I need to get up at, taking the pill from the nighstand and then trying to get back to sleep before having to get up for real at 7am.

My partner tried a lot (and went trough weird other diagnosis) and found her solution in simple dextroamphetamine. It's a life changer for her and our relationship as well :) also very cheap as it's no protected substance.

Around here many are deemed to get ritalin first or other similarly weird substances which has way more side effects for some than good ol' amphetamine.

I was on Adderall for about 10 years, when I moved to Asia I discovered 'amphs are banned, so they put me on Ritalin. Holy mother of god how people tolerate that stuff is beyond me. Over the course of an hour, I'd oscillate between wanting to go to the gym, anger, and horny. Had to discontinue using it for fear I'd kill someone during the anger phase. I've tried many substanced but I gotta say... Ritalin is high on the list of weird drugs for me.

Crossing my fingers. My drugstore didn‘t have Metylphinidat, so I had to go for ritalin. Trying it next week.

If you remember, lmk how it goes, very curious how others react to it.

I find Ritalin to be great and works well for me.

None of the issues you described!

But totally get it - some meds do weird things to some people!

Hope you find a treatment that works for you!

Where do you live where they can just swap out medications like that?

I live in Australia and have a Ritalin prescription, but I could t swap it for another drug if they were out!

Curious to know!

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