I'm not even with it at the moment [Music] so that is me every single day before I take my medication and that was me every single day up until about one o'clock before I was taking medication but what exactly does it feel like to take ADHD medication in short my brain goes from sounding like this to sounding like this hello hello hello hello hello it's quite quiet yeah yeah generally there are two types of stimulant medication you have the quick short-term fast acting and a little bit Punchy medication and then you have the long term
slow build up and gradual come down but very long lasting so my first experience of taking ADHD meds came a few days after my diagnosis my medication arrived in the post-methylphenidate to start with and I took one set a stopwatch and went for a walk in the woods with my dogs just to allow me space to be able to observe what it was going to do to me how it was gonna affect me and about 30 35 minutes in I began to get these little tingles these little rushes in my hands and my feet and
then shortly after that peace and this was the one thing that made me weep and break down because all of a sudden my whole life had been a million miles an hour of brain thoughts and activity and suddenly a thousand miles an hour and I was thinking oh my God this is how normal people think all the time my grogginess had gone I was able to remain more on a single thought before my brain switches to another one I was able to physically almost guide my attention to things and I think because of this piece
that I'd had my senses were heightened I was feeling and I still do now I feel the cold on my fingers and kind of even the the air blowing through my hair and I'm sure I already felt all of those things but my brain was just so busy that it was never able to uh register those things in real time it was it was nothing short of incredible and I just stood there in the middle of this forest and wept wept with joy and sadness I felt this morning from the realization of what my life
could have been like if I'd have had these medications and this diagnosis when I was a kid and it all suddenly opened the floodgates and it all came crashing down around me as to the huge impact that this undiagnosed ADHD had had on me so how does this type of medication Make Me Feel on a daily basis well after I've taken one of these little short-term uh tablets in about 30 minutes you get this Rush of energy your muscles tense a little bit and the come up is very very quick once you're up within that
I'd say about the 60 Minute Mark you've then got a good two two and a half hour window of energy Focus motivation alertness all of the things that are really useful in daily life and then almost as quickly within kind of 20 minutes to 40 minutes I'd say you get the come down and it's not gradual at all it very very quick so it means you can feel it and it's not there's side effects in terms of like a hangover once you've stopped drinking it's more you get that very clear juxtaposition between what your brain
is like on ADHD meds and then what it's like afterwards and it almost rubs it in your face a little bit of like this is where you could be but this is where you are now um I hope that makes sense but then the the L bands this this 12 hour one for me I take it and within I'd say 60 minutes I start to notice the effects if I'm trying to notice the effects because it's very gentle and a very gradual build up by the two hour mark I am alert my grogginess is gone
I'm focused all of the same things that happens on the methylphenidate the short burning one but this has come up very slowly over two hours and it stays there for about eight hours for me at Parts I will have waves of nausea that last maybe a minute but not very often and only when I haven't eaten that's usually the big one and when I'm on this elvance I am able to deal with the world that's all I can say so what are the positive effects of ADHD medication that I found well it's been life-changing but
when I say life-changing I'm not talking about it either being positive or negative it's just allowed me to shift my perspective and give me a greater understanding of just what needs I have as opposed to a neurotypical person it's allowed me to concentrate and focus and complete the more mundane daily tasks and also there's the there's the anxiety that gets removed slightly as well because I'm more focused and I've got less things that I'm dropping and forgetting about when I'm on the medication the anxiety disappears as well so I feel more confident I'm feeling like
I can accomplish these things a lot better the negatives of this medication for me I'm lucky I have very few apart from a little bit of nausea every now and again and forgetting to eat but then I make up for that once the medication wears off um I don't get that much because my medication is correct if I've overdosed and I've taken two because I've forgotten to take that I've taken my first one it will zombie me out of course it will and that's where a lot of the negative connotations with this type of medication
come in where you get kids that are over-medicated and zombified it's only because their clinicians are not giving them the correct dosage or the correct type of medication so I hope you found this useful insightful in some small way these are just my experiences but they're real if you've got any questions let me know in the comments below hit the like and the Subscribe button and I will see you again next time thank you so much for watching bye foreign [Music]
