u/smithyy_04

This is more of a vent about medication, so I didn’t know which category to put it under, sorry if it’s wrong!

So I’ve been titrating for around 3 weeks now (currently at 70mg Elvanse- spoiler alert it’s probably too high) and for that whole period I’ve had tons of uni work (final year dissertation). It’s been great at keeping me focussed. I finished everything on Tuesday.

Now I have nothing that’s actually important to do. I have no direction to channel the meds towards. And I definitely saw the consequence of that yesterday.

I spent my ENTIRE day. From 4pm until 4am. Hyper focused on learning how to make those cool edits on TikTok. 12 HOURS. It felt like 30 minutes!!!! I didn’t even eat!! I checked the time at 7pm, ate a bowl of cereal, and went back to it. Came back to reality at 4am.

Very concerning. Although I had no obligations, and it was my first day without a pressing deadline, so maybe I was just indulging in the fact I now can spend 12 hours doing bullshit? But it scared me a little how fast the time passed for me. I didn’t even go to the bathroom until my boyfriend got home from work and snapped me out of it.

So yeah. Think my dose is too high lol. And I have to find a way to not get sucked into stuff when I have nothing important to do.

TLDR: had nothing important to do for the first time in a month, spent 12 hours locked into learning how to edit.

Hello! I started my titration 2 weeks ago, and my pathway has been week 1 = 30mg, week 2 = 50mg and week 3 onwards 70mg.

My prescriber said I would remain on 70mg for the rest of titration, but I was just wondering, isn’t that a little high? I’ll be starting 70mg tomorrow, and I just feel like I haven’t had enough time to get used to the other doses.

My prescriber said I can request 50mg. But I just wanted to know other people’s titration experience with 70mg. Or just your experience in general. And any fellow PsychUK people: did you feel like the doses escalated too fast?

Feeling a little unsure about which dose is right for me as I haven’t had time to adjust to the previous ones. Thanks!