For sure... Though I've recently found out that the medicine works, but I hate the way it makes me feel and I'd rather have zero executive functioning than to take it every day.

[–] Test_Tickles@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Everyone is different, after all you are literally adjusting the chemistry of your brain. But some people take a while to adjust to psych meds. I am very sensitive to psych meds and get all the weird side effects. It usually takes me about 3 months to let my body adjust to a new drug and get a real idea of how it's going to make me feel. Admittedly I am taking more than just ADHD meds, but it can take a while to find the right thing. I have had many whose side effects started out sucking, but then went away or became tolerable. But even worse is the ones that start out perfect, but then slowly show their problem sides. It can be so difficult to switch when the side effect seems so minor at first but everything else is perfect.
Also, there are different meds and they can affect you differently. And there are different types of meds, some are stimulants and some are not.

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago

I'm sorry to hear it, my partner similarly doesn't react well to some of the meds. They take strattera and it took them a few months for the side effects to subside. It never hurts to try different meds!

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Welcome to the Late Diagnosis Club.

Hope you don’t join the My Parents Thought I Was But Chose To Not Do Anything Club followed by the If I’d Only Known I Wouldn’t Have Wasted So Much Of My Potential Club.

[–] stormeuh@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If I’d Only Known I Wouldn’t Have Wasted So Much Of My Potential Club.

I'm in this club but very much trying to leave, because I'm starting to realize "wasted potential" in itself is a toxic idea that's been ingrained by years of teachers telling me this (with my parents doing their best to counter). That's not to say I'm not still trying to do my best, I am, but only because I want to and because it makes me happy.

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

I’m pretty sure with the correct treatment when I was younger I would be ruling a small country by now. That said, I am pleased with killing it at work and being able to finally afford a house and not living in a hoarder mess.

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I’m in the second one, but instead of the first one, I joined the My Parents thought I was just lazy and worthless and did everything they could to make me feel bad about it, and when that clearly didn’t work, they doubled down on the same strategy even harder, and now I am triggered just being in the same room with them from the PTSD they gave me Club. It’s honestly not a great club? I do not recommend joining.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, that club sucks. The well-worn rut of defensiveness and constantly on guard because of facing so much criticism is stress you can’t seem to escape.

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I feel so validated!

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

IYKYK. Sorry you’re having to deal with it. How you feel is real.