Is it ADHD or Life? – Medication Catchup
New episode out now on ADHD or Life – A Couple’s Perspective 🎙️ and this one is a proper personal deep dive into Adam’s first two weeks on ADHD medication. Real-life updates, side effects, wins, worries, and all the stuff you don’t always hear people say out loud.
This week we start by disagreeing on whether this episode should be called “part deux”, then we catch up on half term, the stresses that come with it, and how medication has changed things (or not). We talk about the new Elvis movie (don’t recommend), and we also went to London to watch a TV recording where medication definitely helped. Is Adam just… chill now? Then there’s Adam’s life-or-death toothache before we get into the main event: medication.
Adam has been taking Elvanse for about two and a half weeks and we go through what week one really felt like, including blood pressure being high at first, the new found energy, and the reality that it’s not a magic pill. It’s had such an effect that Adam is now behind on Emmerdale, which is saying something. We talk dry mouth, fear of the crash, and then week two: does your body get used to it, or does Adam just always want more? Was more too much? We cover teeth grinding, heaviness, sleep issues, the best time to take it, lack of appetite, protein, and the weird moment of realising Easter eggs have gone flat.
We also get into the bigger questions: does Adam have his spark back, and do Adam and Donna have their spark back? We talk negative feedback, fear, emotions, protein shakes, and whether you should depend on a tablet. Is the old Adam back? And is it normal to love something for ages, overdo it, then never go near it again?
Five minute moans:
– Donna’s driving
– Adam’s total disregard of nappies
We finish with listeners’ good, bad and ugly stories about medication. Please keep sending yours to adhdorlife@gmail.com
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