I hate my adhd meds

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I take lisdexamphetamine. (Elvanse). I hate it so much. It only helps marginally with being able to think more coherently but my biggest issue is procrastination.

And it makes me feel horrible. I feel flat (as in not sad but the opposite of joyful, very matter or fact) during the day and by evening I get very impatient. I normally love playing and having fun with my kids but not on the meds. I also get an extremely dry throat but for some reason can't drink more water no matter how much my throat burns. (so obviously it's not helping with the stupidity).

I only take meds on working days. I took them yesterday for the first time in two weeks or so and couldn't sleep till 6am.

And the worst is that today morning I can't remember if I have taken them or not. I dont want to take a double dose but I'm feeling quite fuzzy and unfocussed though that might be the lack of sleep.

I wonder if it's the age. I used to take dexamphetamine when I was younger and it really helped immensely back then.

I'm on 50mg and that works better than 30mg but I hate both doses. I wish my brain just worked normally and I didn't need this shit.

I have ADHD and so agree with your last sentence!

On a practical note, I put my meds in a pill box with days of the week so I can see if I gave taken them.

I take methylphenidate.

Thanks for the reply. Do you feel unpleasant on methylphenidate?

I should use a pill box. I considered it when I was taking dex every 4h because I just couldn't remember if I'd taken sub sequent doses and when but now it's just one tablet a day so I thought it wouldn't be so difficult to keep track of it. I dojt think I have taken it but considering how shitty I feel I definitely don't want to double dose.

When I started taking meds I took methylphenidate but it gave me a rash and I've never tried it again.

My working day is almost over and I've done nothing. My brain is still mush so I guess I didn't take the meds. On the bright side I know all the random words that random people hate for some random reason. (I hope random isn't one of the hated words) and I've fallen in love with a dress that was suggested for a 13 year old. It's beautiful though. 😍

Sorry everyone, just having a pity party for one.

I stopped taking Elvanse for some of the same reasons, the biggest issue being that it made me so impatient in the evenings and that wasn't fair on my children. I did feel it helped during the day but only if I didn't get distracted because it was all too easy to end up hyper focusing on the wrong things!

My son was on methylphenidate for a couple of years but stopped taking it a while back because he felt so flat and emotionless. It was quite obvious when he had taken it because he lost some of his craziness and could concentrate really well, and whilst his teachers enjoyed that, he didn't and if I'm honest neither did I. He just didn't seem himself.

I don't know what the answer is, I'd love to find something that helped us but didn't have the side effects. Not sure that I've helped at all but wanted to say that it's not just you!