A week into ADHD treatment - My experience on Elvanse
Some of this may not make sense without reading my about me blog first. But here goes. I'm now on day 5 of titration, about to move up to 50mg of Elvanse. I was discussing some of the effects of the ADHD medication with a friend of mine when he asked me if I had felt that "before the meds [I was] doing things quickly, just for the sake of getting them done, like there was an imaginary deadline of your own making - like you were on a treadmill? But now, [I] have more time to decide the direction of travel, moment-by-moment?" When reading this, I felt that it may have been an impression of what he was feeling, but it was very different from my experience. So, I sat down to write out exactly what the last week had felt like. Before taking Elvanse, it never really felt like I was doing things quickly; more that my brain was constantly going 90mph thinking about the things I had to do, things I've said, things I was going to say, the washing up that needed doing, the loung...