I accidentally replied to the comment directly above this, then deleted it. Yup, I have ADHD. Anyways, here is what I said above:
Just commenting on your ways to cope with ADHD. I hate my Adderall, makes me feel like a robot and I get crabby at people for trying to be nice or social with me. I think meditation is an excellent choice. As far as alarms go, my Google calendar is decked out with all of my important deadlines with alarms set to go off. My real preference for treating my ADHD is marijuana. If I smoke just enough of a strong sativa, it helps me level off and allows me to actually focus on one thing. Problem with this is that I have a very very high tolerance, so I don't get very loopy or silly from smoking a few hits. A lot of people get absolutely silly from a little marijuana though, so I could see this method being awful for some people. Figured I'd put in my 2 cents.
Background: my family is rampant with learning disabilities and I have been prescribed to take approx 70mg of amphetamine daily for the last 10 years. Gf is a psychologist and says I have the worst ADHD she has ever seen.
Edit: in true ADHD fashion, I was so absorbed in this thread that I am now late for a med check up at my Dr office for my Adderall.
Don't know if you've tried it but I take Adderall XR. It's a slow release so it works through the day and because only a little bit it entering your system at a time, you don't feel like as much of a robot. I take 20 mg every day except for weekends so that my tolerance stays low and I also get a good burst of productivity at work at the start of the week. I've been on this kind of regimen for two years and it's helped me out a lot. Might be something to talk to your doctor about. In Canada at least, it would be a lot cheaper for me than smoking that much pot haha.
Luckily I've got my bases covered on having pot, so the price on that isn't an issue. I have been prescribed XR's before and I took Vyvanse for a few years. I prefer how they work over my amphetamine, but I still don't like it. I experience too many of the negative side effects for it to be worth it. Nowadays when I do take my Adderall (maybe once or twice a year tops), I cut my pills into 4 pieces and take one piece every hour or so. That seems to curb the intensity of the negative side effects a bit. I would be more interested in taking XR again, but I live in the USA and my health insurance is awful. It costs me $50 for a bottle of 60 30mg Adderall vs $340 for 30 70mg Vyvanse. Go American health insurance, wahooo!
XR is so much better than normal adderall. I've taken it for 15 years. I couldn't take the normal stuff because it felt like I was dying every 5 hours or so. With XR coming down is not terrible.
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u/[deleted] May 30 '17 edited Oct 10 '17
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