The Drug That Works TOO Well?
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This video pretty much describes my experience with Vyvanse. It‘s effects to Dopamine and Noradrenaline were really intense and that helped with motivation (doing tasks easier) and focus (less often hurting myself while doing tasks).
However the flipside was horrendous. I was crashing BAD each evening, full anxiety and anhedonia spike bordering on suicidal thoughts type crash. Needed more sleep but had trouble going to sleep and often woke up at 4 in the morning. I had to endurance run for grades once when I took it and my pulse went to 240bpm, felt like a heart attack. So yeah even jogging or gym isn‘t fun when you are drenched in sweat for no reason. And then waste your gained focus on the wrong thing :D.
240 jeeeze the highest I’ve had mine this year was 179 and that’s not fun
I suspect that the normal limitations of my body were overridden by the amphetamine and I pushed to the limit which mechanically is 240bpm because the heart needs 250ms to reset. But yeah, 180 is where I would say pain begins.
It helps me with the exact same things, and the hard crash used to be similar for me. But the doc found that Vyvanse caused it only indirectly: I was working hard (even on things like cleaning), didn’t feel the need for pauses and rest, didn’t eat and drink enough. After doing these things by schedule rather than how I felt, it was completely fixed.
Your situation sounds like a different quality, probably with different causes.
Yeah I got the anxiety big time, so vyvanse just isn‘t the right med for me. Good that it works for you
Absolutely, people are very different. In my particular case, I used to get anxiety, and it got worse with caffeine. Got benzos for years as an when-needed fallback. ADHD had not been diagnosed yet. Turned out that much of it was a magnesium deficit, and magnesium replaced benzos completely. I also tried modafinil before I was officially diagnosed, and it worked pretty great. But that is just my very specific case.
The only general takeaway is to keep searching for what’s up and what works for you, and that is probably very different in your case.
This kind of thing is why my wife is so set against even trying medication for her ADHD, she is quite worried about side-effects!
She should try my chicken-method, then: Take half a minimum dose, e. g. 5g lisdexamfetamine, if it works go to something like 10 or 15.
Does she get bad side effects from coffee? If yes, stims really might not be for her.
Thanks, she is a big coffee drinker in the morning but has to completely cut off stimulants around noon or it will mess with her sleep. But, so far she refuses the idea of even trying medication because she is worried about side effects.