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After experimentation with my adhd meds, I've concluded the following:
I have been taking double the amount required. For 5 years. Insane anxiety which has led to significant social isolation. I've lost friends, and countless other opportunities that could have altered my life in a positive way.
5.fucking.years.
Im very happy that I no longer have the anxiety. It's been a week since I've reduced the dose and there haven't been any negatives.
Same focus, same drive and motivation.
Except I have 5 years (well, 3 years) of conditioning to break out of. I still have this odd "phantom anxiety".
I was handed a bottle of pills and told to figure it out. So of course, once the positive impact of the medication kicked in, I assumed that the negatives were just a side effect id have to live with.
Lame.
Fucking. Lame.
I’m horrified by this. Prescribed medication without a starting dose, follow up appointments? Advice on what upper limit is?Told to ‘figure it out’? What the hell?! Is this normal for adhd or was it just a shit doctor? It sounds like medical incompetence to me, and you’re just lucky things didn’t end up worse. I’m glad you have found balance now, but I would be furious.
Absolutely. The full ramifications haven't really hit home, I'm just happy the endless anxiety I couldn't trace back is gone. I'm almost 100% sure this made my migraines worse as my body was tense the whole time I was awake.