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[gianmaria]

Hallo and welcome adventroverted

I had a very similar experience to yours, except I’ve been diagnosed only last year (I’m going for 35)

I’ll spare you the re-telling of my journey 5i’ve written extensively about it maybe you can go check my older posts clicking on my name)

 

I was surprised as well when I was prescribed Concerta right after the diagnosis, which also seemed to be done quite quickly.

Concerta 27mg did not seem to help much, so we increased to a stronger dose, but that made me way to grumpy and jumpy without actually helping me concentrate (and my heart was also pumping harder).

I seem to have found my med in Rilatine 20 modified release.

Actually the difference is light night and day. Which is unnerving to an extent. I did not know meds could have such an effect on our behaviour (which makes me also question the whole notion of free will at times, but I digress…)

Logn story short: it can take some time before you the medication that suits you the best.

On top of that, medications won’t solve your problems (Time management in particular is a b***h. I know)

What I’ve noticed is that Rilatine simply removes an obstacle, albeit a massive one, but it’s then up to me to make something of my new lucid self.

If it can be of any relief, 11 years after my graduation in Fine Arts I’m still stuck with a costumer support job I pretty much hate, with little-next-to-none artistic accomplishments actually reached.

(And I wasn’t certainly reaching for the moon: I just wanted to be a cartoonist or a comic book artist, go figure).

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