My psychiatrist and I (30F) have been trying to find the medication and dose that works best for me since last October. As you can tell by this post we still haven’t found it and I am worried we won’t.
I started with methylphenidate 18 mg (Sandoz). This did not work and we went to Elvanse 20mg, 30mg, 40mg and 50mg. I could tell the dose on 50mg was too high so i requested to start on 30mg again but for a longer period (we did all of them for 2 weeks and I wanted to try it for at least a month. As suspected the 30mg didn’t do anything. The 40mg that I am on now helps sometimes, but mainly when I am already in the zone. Literally typing this from bed at 10:40.
However, due to some heavy stuff that’s been going on in my private life and stress from work I feel like I’ve been doing worse and worse and that the meds are not working at all anymore. I am panicky, stressed out, tired, and when speaking my thoughts are all over the place and I cannot form proper sentences. I feel like I am behind with everything, everybody dislikes me and I am about go get fired (I know this is just my brain playing tricks, but I don’t know why).
Are there people out here that went through something similar and have tips?