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First few days on Elvanse and wow! This stuff is honestly astonishing.

If you’re seeing this on Bluesky it’s auto cross posted from fedi. Breaks might be in odd places.

It’s essentially created two versions of me. There is medicated me who is a competent adult and can Just Do Stuff and unmedicated me who is mot, and cannot (but who is fun and lovely and is the version writing this).

On the way up the transition between the two is smooth and continuous.

On the way down it is not. I can feel it starting to fade over above half and hour then it reaches some critical level and o spend 10-15 minutes just crashing.

And then I’m the person writing this again, but a bit dazed and bewildered.

I’m hoping this will get smoother. At the moment it leads to almost a discontinuity in personality, but only on the way down, where afterwards I simply cannot conceive of being the person I just was.

I think I need to get into the habit, before it wears off, of leaving myself something nice for just after the crash.

@goatsarah I am glad Elvanse seems to be helping! The nicest thing about meds is knowing that you were never to blame for previous difficulties concentrating (I used to blame myself for that all the time).

Llwynog

@goatsarah
I'm on methylphenidate and I don't have the "crash" effect. I am much more focused when I'm on the drug and end up wasting less time online, but I do notice it the next day when I haven't (yet) taken my meds. There isn't a "crash" as you're describing; it's more of a gradual feeling of the drug wearing off. If the "downwards transition" becomes unbearable, maybe ask your doctor if you could try methylphenidate?

@llwynog I would except other than for about 10 minutes as it wears off it’s working fantastically well for me.

And the crash is getting easier each time.