Strattera gave me stomach issues for 3 months straight and didn't do shit for my ADHD symptoms. Finally went back to stims afterwards. At least with stims I either forget to eat or am disgusted by the thought of eating, but if I do eat, my stomach doesn't feel terrible.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah unfortunately it's not right for everyone but for me personally it is like night and day with giving me back some executive function, working memory, and impulse control. Stims just made me hyperfocus on everything, including vices like social media, without any real motivation to devote that energy to whatever I was putting off. Especially if it wasn't already right in front of me. I also had to be careful about tolerance cause I didn't want to just chase a high but I wasn't feeling productive at all once my body started to adjust to it. I tried to take weekends off but that just meant I wasn't getting any chores done at home.

Theres only a couple bad side effects for me with strattera on the end of my second month in. The fatigue, which is honestly just a really intensely calm feeling that makes it hard to want to stay upright and awake, and I think that is actually getting better the longer I take it. The nausea when I take it on an empty stomach, though, really messes with my routine and eating habits since I really don't like to eat first thing in the morning and that seems to be the most effective time to take it.

I'm just kicking myself for not giving non-stims a shot while I was still in college.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I'm glad I tried.

But I'm also doing so much better now and a 15mg Adderall xr does has been working great for 2 years now. I also found a job that follows my passions and I've been able to channel the hyper focus and drive to build and keep a schedule for work. The last step is to reintegrate my fitness hobby (cycling) back into my life and I'll be back to where I was before some asshole manager from my previous job caused a mild panic attack in me and things broke down.