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Oh wow, you explained how I feel about vyvanse so well! It gets me to start tasks (the correct tasks) and focus a little better, but I'm still scatterbrained.
My biggest issue is evenings, when it wears off I am unmotivated and useless. If feel sad that I take the medication and it helps for work hours only.
Yes, crashing pretty hard sometimes. But it's a great blessing, even just 3 good hours per day, or 30 good days in a year can change a life.
Have you been taking it for long? My worry is that this kind of effect that we are talking about diminishes greatly after a while, because it is kind of similar to how coffee, opioid painkillers etc. improve this and may not be based on big changes in the prefrontal cortex. 2 months for me so far, slowly going up from 12 to 24 mg as it diminishes.
I also wonder about another thing: The fact that a low dose works well on me & gives me such a high, and the relatively low duration could mean that I just metabolise it faster, like on the very lower end of the half-life range.
Lisdex for me works pretty well. Though I still need to make an effort to structure and plan thing out well. Worth talking to your doctor about, a dose change may be required. My GP mentioned the usual starting dose is commonly not sufficient but from understanding it’s mostly for helping with executive functioning stuff (procrastination as you mention); not really for improving memory. The votes are probably due to comparisons to senility and unnecessary reference to Biden as an aside.
It FEELS even worse than before, but I think that is because doing more means more error, more senile.
Still, even if it would stay like this, my life would have changed for the better.
These statements are also contradictory but the last one, if factual, is like worth focusing. These drugs aren’t “fix all”; lifestyle management (diet, sleep, etc) is still required.
Different stims have different effect. Also 6 weeks could be too early to settle on the dosage. With those three dosage is highly personal and not related with things like age, weight, etc. Heck, sometimes one might need a booster just because they're tired.
Good luck and congratulations with this small victory!