I made a post on here a while ago saying how uncanny the posts were to describing me near perfectly. I struggled with this disorder for 30 years. Nerfing myself for 30 years. Not being the best husband to my wife for 6 years. Not the best father to my son for nearly 2 years. All without knowing it.
I have now been on 20mg XR Adderall for a little over 3 months - it has been absolutely life changing.
I’m more attentive. Things are much more easily committed to memory. Menial tasks no longer feel like a huge burden anymore. I can actually read a page in a book I’m interested in without completely forgetting what I’ve read by the end of the page. I’ve had a small, but annoying headache for years every single day - chalked it up to genetics as my mom has a disorder than can cause the same thing. The headaches are gone. I can only assume they were brought on by the stress.
Gang, if you’re at all considering you might have some form of ADD/ADHD, please go see your doctor. I had a thousand reasons why I didn’t want to/need to go beforehand, but I’m so very glad I finally did.
I have heard that there are non-amphetamine based ADHD meds from friends that weren’t allowed to take regular meds. Which might be easier to get a Dr to start with if brought up. They (the friends) said they didn’t like the non-stimulant ones as they felt weird. But you might be able to try to see if they work for you. My boss’s kids seem to have had luck with the non-stimulant versions. I might need to look into getting a small script for some whenever I finally am able to go to visit some friends in Japan. I have heard that it is hard to get approval to travel to a lot of countries with USA ADHD meds because amphetamines.
The only time I have traveled outside the USA after starting ADHD meds was Japan, but had the benefit of being in my early 20’s and more energy and not many years taking the meds. Now that I am in my late 30’s and been taking meds for so long, I already get a lot of anxiety if my refills might get delayed. I just feel so spaced out and no energy aside from small bursts. Kind of like just a permanent state of caffeine crash (even with energy/pre-workout drinks). Some of it might be due to my normal meds counteracting some of the effects of my anxiety/depression meds’ with regards to lower energy.