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submitted 2 months ago by sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml to c/adhd@lemmy.world

I recently had to stop taking my vyvanse due to some bad side effects and holy shit I forgot how bad this was. I can't do anything. I have so much shit I need to do but I sit down to do it and it genuinely fills me with dread. I am just staring at my computer. Even getting to the webpage I needed took hours of convincing. This is horrible, even caffeine isn't helping. What do y'all do? How do you manage?

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[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

heart exploding levels of caffeine, just keep adding more it works eventually

(do not do this I had to survive college somehow and was desperate)

[-] general_kitten@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

caffeine tolerance increases very quickly, so one has to constantly increase the dose for it to be effective. I am currently trying to get a diagnosis after procrastinating for too long on that (why the hell does getting help to overcome my problems require me to overcome my problems). Not sure how caffeine exactly works in adhd brains but for me as how i understand it works in neurotypical also it should be possible to reverse the tolerance for caffeine by spending 2-5 days without any. Having gone through that i can say you need to be prepared to just lay in bed for that time.

[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah I've been thru a couple periods of avoiding caffeine and you can definitely tell when it wears off. About 5 days seems to reset most of my tolerance.

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Brother I am a physics student. I already am doing this. Just didn't have enough coffee today I guess

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