Thread by @AlexandraErin

So as I move into my first work week on ADHD meds, I'm switching from "take pill as soon as I can each day" to "take pill at a set time each day"... which apart from the other general reasons that's good, it feels like the right move, given my addictive personality.

I'm also titrating (tee hee, tit rating) my dosage up 5 MG to see what that does in terms of how much I'm still feeling it in the mid-afternoon.

I want to try to avoid a booster later in the day because of aforementioned addictive personality - taking it once a day by the clock and firmly rejecting the idea of taking another one to keep the train going feels safer.

People keep asking me variations of "If you don't mind sharing, what med were you prescribed?" and I don't know how to tell you this but if there's anything I don't mind sharing, I have already shared it. There's no step in my brain between those two points.

My plan is to share more about the prescription and how I started this journey by and by, but I want to be a little more confident it's not going to end with me flying too close to the sun and plunging into the sea before I do that.

So early indications about moving my dosage up half a step are good? No negative reactions, physical or mental, that I am able to measure or perceive. More focus than any of the preceding three days.

The two things I'm going to be looking for is how I'm feeling at the 7 hour mark (where I've been feeling a sharp drop-off) and how I feel when I'm trying to sleep tonight.

As I understand it a larger dose won't affect the chemical half-life in my body but it does mean that when half the dose has worn off, there will still be more of it left working its magic.

So the higher dose does seem to avoid the 7-hour drop-off, although at about 8 hours in, I am starting to feel it... but not as sharply, and eight hours is a more useful duration for being able to divide a work day up.

I am not going to assume that one day on the new dose is necessarily going to be a pattern, but the 7 hour limit was so consistent among greatly varying circumstances and levels of activity over three days that I will not be surprised by a similar stability of pattern now.