Hi Adidas–
I take 10mg IR, and weigh about 200 pounds.
Be patient with your doctor…it takes a while, even when you respond to a med like Adderall, to fine-tune the dosage level and timing. My doctor had me keep a journal for the first month to see how I was sleeping and if I was having any other side effects. Our brains and our bodies all interact with the meds differently.
I’d also say yes, Adderall can seem like it is working “a bit,” but my experience has been if that if it is working at all, you can tell. You might try doing something you always do (vs. writing a story, if that isn’t something you always do) when evaluating if the meds are working. I found that things that used to take me 30 minutes took 3 minutes. It helped to compare to something.
Please also take shutterbug’s advice seriously, and acknowledge that there’s a lot more to treatment than medication. (I have found that the meds make all the difference in the world for things I want to do, but almost no difference for things I never wanted to do in the first place…)
Good luck! Remember– your brain may be different, but that also means it is awesomely different, and packed with all sorts of secret weapons that others’ brains lack.
Really.
T
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