Little celebration post. I started a new job so I need the focus, its nice to not feel as groggy, and i just feel generally more on top of my game. Generally much better now at staying on task and both starting and seeing things through.
Really happy about this!
Happy for you!
I feel like there is a honeymoon period with medication, its not that it stops working, just that you tend to ride high for a while and then things level out.
But really happy its helping!
What happened for me is that you realize that the chemical help needs to be used as a way to help you cope better with your condition, rather than make it disappear. It’s also hard to unlearn many unhealthy coping mechanisms from before being medicated, that’s something I’ve been working on in regular therapy.
My doctor recommended flush periods where I stop taking the medication to prevent building up a tolerance. Idk if it’s true but I think it works.
Yes, as someone who has been taking various forms of ADHD medication for almost a decade now, I do realize this. That is what my comment is about. You will notice I said “its not that it stops working…”
When you phrase your opening comment with “you realize” it implies that I don’t “realize” this thing you are explaining to me. Maybe I’m doing that to you right now.
I’ve dealt with that feeling on and off for many years where it “feels” like the medication has stopped working. What I had to learn is exactly what you pointed out. It can be discouraging.
My medication does a great job of leveling out my emotional swings, especially when transitioning between tasks, or dealing with unexpected things, and dealing with task switching. It doesn’t help with procrastination. That’s something I have to be more intentional about.
I should try having flush periods. I do know that coming off my medication can cause periods of heightened emotions from my personal experience. But that was usually because it was not my decision to be off meds, and I wonder how much that played into that heightened emotional state.
When you phrase your opening comment with “you realize” it implies that I don’t “realize” this thing you are explaining to me. Maybe I’m doing that to you right now
That was my bad, I meant as me saying out loud “and then you realize this happens”. Not as in “don’t you know x?” way, but rather as “when this happens, you come to understand that medication doesn’t work like this”.
I edited my comment a bit after because I realized it could’ve come as smug or condescending when that wasn’t my intention.
The flush periods I have lately are usually when my depression flares up and I forget to take care of myself, or when my prescription takes some time to get renewed.Everything you’ve mentioned happens too, I get more emotionally unstable, living becomes harder… I used to take 5 days off a month with fewer I’ll effects, but that was when my routine and life kinda worked. It hasn’t been that way for months. Maybe that’s what makes going back on medication such a big change.
❤️ its all good. I wonder how long it would take to really be flushed out. Probably only a couple of days. Yeah I feel like more structured flush periods would be better then unstructured.
I wonder how long it would take to really be flushed out.
My doctor said something along the lines of “3 days a month and then a week every 4 or 5 months when you feel the meds aren’t making that much of a difference”. It also depends a lot on your medication though. Methylphenidate (what I take) has a half-life in the body of like 1.5 days
Ah yeah it looks like Lisdexamfetamine can take up to 2.5 days to full clear out of your body. Hmm. Good info.
Starting on stimulant meds usually comes with mild euphoria. Enjoy it while it lasts, don’t go chasing the euphoria though.
—ReadFanon, All the things I wish someone had told me when I started on stimulant meds
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Yeah ReadFanon has some great posts that I found very helpful.
