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I wake up, cats shredded my pill organizer. I saved most of the pills thankfully but the organizer was unusable. I decide to use the normal concerta bottle to store pills until tomorrow. I take my usual 72mg, wake up, forget to brush teeth and just chill on my laptop and take my concerta of course. 30m later wait.. oh god.. I forgot to take the chicken out of the freezer. Then I realize I also took 144mg of concerta within an hour of each other. Can you guess what happened next??

Nothing. Just nothing it's the same if I didn't take it. Now truth is I have been struggling with 72mg concerta. Feels like it doesn't even do anything and now I am sure of it.

Idk how common this is but I genuinely felt nothing on 144mg, no increased blood pressure, heart rate or even anxiety. I think it's about time I stop wasting money on a medication that doesn't work.

I wake up, cats shredded my pill organizer. I saved most of the pills thankfully but the organizer was unusable. I decide to use the normal concerta bottle to store pills until tomorrow. I take my usual 72mg, wake up, forget to brush teeth and just chill on my laptop and take my concerta of course. 30m later wait.. oh god.. I forgot to take the chicken out of the freezer. Then I realize I also took 144mg of concerta within an hour of each other. Can you guess what happened next??

Nothing. Just nothing it's the same if I didn't take it. Now truth is I have been struggling with 72mg concerta. Feels like it doesn't even do anything and now I am sure of it.

Idk how common this is but I genuinely felt nothing on 144mg, no increased blood pressure, heart rate or even anxiety. I think it's about time I stop wasting money on a medication that doesn't work.

I have inattentive adhd and looking at my life and the way my brain works, I don't understand how could this be anything other than a curse? I am very often sleepy, it's very hard to do get up and do a lot of things like go to the gym, I can't help but procrastinate and I have a strange addiction to spending which ruins my Financials and any hopes of savings.

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My question is how do you view your ADHD brain? Do you see any upsides to it?

Around 4 months ago my dosage of wellbutrin was increased from 150mg sr to 150mg sr x2 daily, and after around 2 days boom everything was clear I had energy I nearly teared up from how nice it felt to have this blanket thrown over me to finally be lifted and being able to breath. But then sadly next day the effect was noticeably less and the day after basically gone.

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I am on 72mg of concerta and yes it does help a bit with some inattentive issues like day dreaming for example, doesn't stop it but does lower the frequency of it. And it does make my head noticeably quite I will admit.

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But what it doesn't do is make me wake the hell up. I just want to wake up and not feel drowsy or sleepy unless I am actively doing something mentally stimulating like going shopping or playing a particular fun game of my favorite video game. And this annoying feeling like my vision is a bit blurry (checked with multiple doctors no vision issues) doesn't go away unless I am also being actively stimulated.

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We have tried

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Modafinil at 400mg nothing

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Armodafinil at 250mg worked pretty good but I develop tolerance after 2 days or less

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Bupropion 150mg sr x2 still on it to manage GAD and depression but the stimulating effect is gone

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Caffeine at an unholy dose still nothing

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Atomoxetine up to 80mg nothing

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Heck even concerta makes me extra sleepy when it kicks in but that is resolved with a quick nap but that doesn't affect the general sleepiness.

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I am living in a country where concerta is my only stimulant option and a very limited medication variety.

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So now my doctor put me on 200mg of amantadine sulphate and so far at day 4 nothing changed.

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I just feel like I am out of options and idk what to do.

Around 4 months ago my dosage of wellbutrin was increased from 150mg sr to 150mg sr x2 daily, and after around 2 days boom everything was clear I had energy I nearly teared up from how nice it felt to have this blanket thrown over me to finally be lifted and being able to breath. But then sadly next day the effect was noticeably less and the day after basically gone.

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I am on 72mg of concerta and yes it does help a bit with some inattentive issues like day dreaming for example, doesn't stop it but does lower the frequency of it. And it does make my head noticeably quite I will admit.

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But what it doesn't do is make me wake the hell up. I just want to wake up and not feel drowsy or sleepy unless I am actively doing something mentally stimulating like going shopping or playing a particular fun game of my favorite video game. And this annoying feeling like my vision is a bit blurry (checked with multiple doctors no vision issues) doesn't go away unless I am also being actively stimulated.

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We have tried

Modafinil at 400mg nothing

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Armodafinil at 250mg worked pretty good but I develop tolerance after 2 days or less

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Bupropion still on it to manage GAD and depression but the stimulating effect is gone

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Caffeine at an unholy dose still nothing

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Atomoxetine up to 80mg nothing

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Heck even concerta makes me extra sleepy when it kicks in but that is resolved with a quick nap but that doesn't affect the general sleepiness.

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I am living in a country where concerta is my only stimulant option and a very limited medication variety.

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So now my doctor put me on 200mg of amantadine sulphate and so far at day 4 nothing changed.

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I just feel like I am out of options and idk what to do.

I have met tons of people from here and other places who are queer and for some reason lots of them seem to make it their entire personality. Every single topic has to be about homosexual rights or the science behide gender dysphoria, every single post they make as well has to relate to that. also things such as "pride month" or "black history month" etc I find those to also be very exclusive. I find it not as a way to express identity at this point but rather to separate humans into groups. If we have any hope of evolving past war, racism, sexism, extremist religion ideologies and and other forms of division. I say that we have to evolve intellectually past that.

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As Morgan Freeman said repeatedly "I don't want a black history month. (Then how do you stop racism?) Stop talking about it.)

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(Point here is Queer rights = Human rights)

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And before anyone comes here to slander me and calling me all sorts of things please keep in mind I am a pan sexual man who is in a relationship with a lovely trans woman whom I love deeply.

I have noticed that I pretty much never sleep or be able to sleep without having some sort of noise in my ears, Most of the time it's a human voice talking or people talking in general. though I find myself a fall asleep the fastest while listening to reddit stories on tiktok. what is the science behind that? And is anyone else like that?

I am on 300mg wellbutrin and 54mg concerta for months now and still I am hungry. I feel like a fantasy and I can't stick to a diet. I wasn't like this before being medicated and going in ssris before this combo. Where is my appetite suppression? Or at least my normal appetite?

Will it ever return to normal?

After going through the shock of losing the love of my life to circumstances out of our control I have just been dull. Everything feels a bit vivid and I have no energy.

Even my medication which is central nerves system stimulant isn't working as good as it usually does I feel sleepy and tired and my heart aches. And the worse part? I have no one, not a single person in my life would care about what I just went through or even understand.

I don't even have friends that I can just talk to or hang out with to ease the pain. At best all I can do is lose myself in an endless void over some wine.

Her parents found out everything and that we are dating. They took away everything and contacted my own family and the situation got so big it almost escalated to the police but thankfully it didn't. And I managed to convince my own family otherwise regarding most things including if we were dating.

That's it though. I lost her. I lost everything that made my life worth living, It's very unlikely I will ever hear from her again and even if I do they will report us to the police if the find out we ever met or talked. We had something so beautiful and this is how it ends? Because of family?

I can only hope she doesn't hurt herself as it's very likely they will take away her hrt and if they do she would most likely hurt herself. I just hope that together or not she will be fine.

I don't think I will get to see her again but oh do I keep imagining her in my mind all day, almost like her shadow is still here but at the end of the day she isn't. I will no longer be able to hold her as we sleep peacefully together. I will not be able to see the joy on her face when I cook for her. And I will no longer feel her lips against mine. I feel so lost without her and I just can't believe this happened I just can't process it.

For context my gf is trans and we have been dating for several months.

We have been living together for the last 1.5 months ish and it has been amazing for both of us all and all. But her family went to a different city in a rural area a couple weeks ago and of course she was forced to go and they took away all of her access to the internet and her phone as well as her money that she earned on her own. Though they gave her a Nokia phone and we have been talking via call and SMS but we planned that she would escape and come to my apartment. That attempt was today but she was caught at the station while I was waiting for her in a different city to pick her up and travel back to the city I live in again. Of course her uncle yelled at her physically abused her and then her mother called me telling me to cut off all contact with their "son" and if she ever comes to me again they will take legal action. Then her uncle took the phone and started using very bad words which I will not mention but I just hung up on him. Now my girlfriend is miles and miles away from me. Being abused and I don't even know her location and I may never see her again as her family blocked on everything. I just got on a bus alone to go back to my city..

I feel so so lost and I can't even describe the sadness and longing I feel for her. I will not hear from her for who knows how long if ever let alone hold her once more.

I miss her and I truly love her though I can only hold on the hope that one day we will be reunited.

Just curious on what the difference is since they are the same active ingredient but in different delivery forms

Mainly doing it for anxiety

اية المحرم في اني انزل بوست اقول فيه اني حابب اتعرف علي ناس جديدة. انا فاهم ان في طبعا خطر علينا بسبب الموقع الجغرافي ووجود كائن الهيجان بس هل الحل اننا نتعزل عن بعض بالشكل دة؟

I am 17 years old. I live alone and I am fully independent but I have 1 person that I can call a friend that I see once a month maybe. I don't know where to begin in terms of meeting people.. I understand that this is a question asked too often in this sub but I genuinely don't understand or know where to begin. Thanks to my medications I have nearly 0 social anxiety and I can easily go up to a person and talk to them if I reall wanted to but when? When do I do that? When is it appropriate? Is it appropriate to strike up a conversation with a guy if we are both chilling alone at a cafe? When and where and with who is it appropriate?

All advice is much appreciated.

For context I am on the following medications.

72mg concerta

300mg bupropion

30mg buspar

Bupropion does wonders for my overall mood and depression it's amazing and Buspar is just for bruxism caused by the bupropion and then there is concerta.

When I take 72mg of concerta I feel like the internal noise in my head is quiet and I can finally appreciate the sounds of the birds chirping outside, it's quiet beautiful really but the issue after I take concerta I still feel sleepy like my eyelids are heavy but I can't really sleep and I can't focus either so I am just in this limbo however caffeine seems to help a bit.

Does anyone know why this is happening to me?

I find that concerta (72mg) works wayyy better if I take a small nap immediately after taking the pills. Though usually I find it impossible to go back to sleep is there any techniques that could help me go back to sleep for an extra 30-40 minutes?

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My doctor told me it's because for some people like me concerta seems to work more heavily on the dopamine neurotransmitters more than the norepinephrine ones which causes that initial sleepiness.