My Elvanse is confusing me…
In a nutshell:
Diagnosis about 5 weeks ago. Started Elvanse soon after. Started on 20s. Felt nothing but wasn’t too surprised or upset. Did 2 weeks of that before I was moved up to 40s. Felt more and felt better but more like slight/mild effect on most days. Felt like I wanted to try going higher and prescriber agreed that it’s a good move since I feel it but not much so a higher dose would probably help. Finished my 2 weeks on 40s and then was moved up to 50s for another 2 weeks with 2 more weeks with 60s but that’s in a while from now. I’m 4 days into my 50s. My experience is really messing with me now since I’m getting very interesting results. I usually never ate breakfast with my 40s (if I did it would be rare and probably something like chorizo slices). I drank loads of water and had a nice healthy dinner with a small lunch. This wasn’t a massive change I was never a breakfast person. Now on 50s. My first day I didn’t do much different to other days. Woke up had my water etc no breakfast had my Elvanse 50mg. Lunch I had a small pizza from a pizza place I walked past but this was before my Elvanse kicked in and lost appetite. My Elvanse that day worked super well id say any doubts I had about it absolutely got squished in that moment. Now the day after so my second day again nothing changed, it kicked in with my usual like “queues” where I start with a dry throat an hour and a half to two hours after taking it and then becoming chatty for a bit. So I had that effect but then the rest of the queues didn’t come and it felt like it “vanished” from my system. I didn’t think much of it since hey I have work to do today and I just went up to a new dose it will probably take time. Later in the evening I had a massive wave of concentration hit me like a truck but so I decided to take advantage and finish the last bit of work I was procrastinating for the day. Great. Now my third day on it the exact same thing happened but without the wave in the evening. I decided most likely the fact I’m taking it empty stomach. My 4th day on it was arguably weirder since i had two boiled eggs with my Elvanse and it kicked in well definitely more prevalent than the two previous days I could tell but then I crashed really hard in the afternoon 3-4 hrs after taking it? Usually I never get a headache when I take it during the day only the evening when it begins to properly wear off. But I got the same headache and i genuinely felt like I crashed. So I said okay let’s try sleeping more having zinc night before and upping the protein content. That leads us to today where I did just that. I had a protein shake too with I would say a high fat high protein breakfast with my usual vitamin d3 and omega 3,6,9 oils. But today was the weirdest since… it didn’t even kick in. Not even a tinge… it’s 12:26pm as of this second and I took it at 9:10am with breakfast at 9:45-10:00am.
Did anyone else have a similar experience? What did you do or what would you do? Am I doing something blatantly wrong? Should I stop or take a break or what? I’m not upset at Elvanse not working or me not feeling good trust me. I’m just upset that it’s inconsistent and I absolutely hate not knowing something that’s affecting me and on top of that I hate inconsistent results so even if I change something unintentionally I don’t actually know what is making it worse?
Please if anyone has suggestions as to what I should do or what I’m missing lmk 🙏. Yes I’m open to questions if it’ll uncover more.