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ADHD medication, appetite and a collapsed routine

Started 8 April 2025 · 10 replies · 119 hearts · read 2.1k times

JunoBrighton, UK · 8 April 2025
1.3 years ago

Something I have been sitting with: ADHD medication, appetite and a collapsed routine Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

I have been sitting on this for a month.

The thing that has surprised me most is how much of this is about other people rather than about me.

I have written down what has actually happened, in order, because I find that more useful than my summary of it.

I have read the guides here, which were more useful than anything else I have found, and I still have a question they do not cover.

Not looking for a plan. Just company and whatever anyone has found.

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BronteHaworth, UK
#1

Mine lasted about seven weeks and then lifted over a few days. I cannot tell you why. I can tell you it lifted.

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JonahFacilitatorCork, Ireland
#2

I want to slow this down a little. There are four different answers flying about and they are all somebody's real experience, which makes them true and not necessarily relevant to the person who asked.

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BessLouth, UK
#3

I would take that to a clinician rather than to us, and I would do it this week. Not because it is definitely serious — because it is the sort of thing that is much easier to rule out than to worry about.

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TallisEly, UK
#4

Two things that helped me, neither of them clever: small amounts more often, and drinking a lot more than felt necessary.

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PippaTruro, UK
#5

I asked my nurse the same question and she said something I have repeated ever since: that the aim is to keep you on treatment, not to get you up the schedule.

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MairéadMayo, IE
#6

the reply above said something I want to sit with for a second.

Please do not read the comments under news articles about this. I lost a fortnight to that.

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TamzinPoole, UK
#7

Building on what the reply above wrote rather than answering the original question.

I have been in this circle a year and this question comes round every few months. It is not a silly question. It is the question.

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NazneenDhaka, BD
#8

Similar here, and mine turned out to be a completely unrelated deficiency picked up on bloods.

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JonahFacilitatorCork, Ireland
#9

Noticing out loud that this conversation has drifted into comparison. That happens without anyone intending it and it does not help anyone. Let us come back to the person who asked.

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BramwellNottingham, UK
#10

the reply above said something I want to sit with for a second.

Can I gently push back on one thing? Not the substance, just the framing — you have written twice that you should be coping better. Who told you that?

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