One thing that I found helpful is to break chores into smaller tasks, and track everything on a whiteboard we keep in a place I walk by often. Then set timers throughout the day to go check the board when they go off. It has also helped me to color code things on it with lots of different markers. Going to go check things off the board always feels nice. Just don’t fall into the pitfall of adding too much to it at once. I did better slowly adding more tasks to it over a period of weeks

I have slight nausea after eating a meal, but my apatite has actually increased compared to when I was taking Adderall alone. Other than that I had some light to mild testicular pain for the first week for an hour or so a day. I don’t really get the pain anymore though moving towards the third week. I’m only on 18mg though for now, but I’m hopeful I won’t run into any of the really adverse side effects that force a lot of people off of it.

I cut caffeine out cold turkey when I started medication a few months ago. Now I only have it once a week and only a small cup, but I also take my medication later that day.

I was contemplating if I should go down, but I’m still struggling. The last two weeks have been kind of rough as far as how effective the medication seems and my doctor has slowly been moving me up 5-10 mg a month

No Google service can last. I’ve come to the point where I no longer trust any new product they put out.

They’ve got me on 30mg xr every day, right now I’ve been experiencing very dry mouth, nausea when I eat, loss of appetite, and I don’t really feel tired anymore. (I can still sleep just fine, but losing out on the cue of feeling tired makes it easy to blow way past bed time for me.)

I’m 27, and I’ve recently been diagnosed with ADHD a few months ago. When I first met with my psychiatrist I told them that I suspect I might have ADHD, and I told them why. There was a few appointments. I had to go through several evaluations where I answered a bunch of questions and they watched me closely when I was in. Then they interviewed my family to ask about my history and how I acted growing up, and then they started me on stimulant treatment. All in all it took me two months before they started medicating me.

Just make sure you’re seeing the right doctor for the right treatment. As far as I understand, a therapist can help you with cope with ADHD by helping you find ways to form habits to overcome your symptoms. a psychiatrist will help diagnose you officially and work with you to find a medication to help mitigate your symptoms.

For me they put me on Adderall and it has been completely life changing, but I’ve been told my case is pretty severe. (For context, my Dr. doesn’t like to treat people with stimulants first, and usually tries to treat for depression or other conditions that have symptom overlap with ADHD first, but he moved me to stimulants after interviewing my family.)

As amazing as treatment has been so far though, as they’ve been slowly increasing my dosage, the side effects are a bit rough, the medication wears off later in the day causing a crash - especially when I first started the come down was rough, and after about 3 weeks started to lose effectiveness, and no matter how much they’ve increased my dose it has not been as effective as it was in those first three weeks. (Tolerance seems to be building fast for me :< )

Holy crap. Duplicity is what I’ve been missing my entire life. Thank you for this.