Reddit reviews New ADHD Medication Rules: Brain Science & Common Sense

Some thoughts:

1. Highly recommend skimming through the 'Driven to Distraction' book and taking the linked adult ADHD self report test
   
   
2. My read of Scott's post http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/12/28/adderall-risks-much-more-than-you-wanted-to-know/ and other things on the internet is that Ritalin is perhaps better than Adderall from the perspective that you're talking about: e.g. comedowns and euphoria. I've read that Ritalin has less of a euphoria. Also you can start super super low with dosages. Like 5-10mg Ritalin per day, which is about 2.5-5mg Adderall per day and titrate as needed. This has info on dosing: https://www.amazon.com/New-ADHD-Medication-Rules-Science-ebook/dp/B00JNLYOTK/
   
   
3. I felt similarly to you, I always had this perception of Adderall and Ritalin as scary drugs, then I read a lot into it after reading the 'driven to distraction' book and felt very reassured.
   
   Overall, seems like you would benefit from looking further into it. That's what I wish someone would've told me if I was in your situation.

Intersting what you say about metabolic shifts, I a have recently been having some improvement with concerta but I also started to do some work on my gut with colostrum and resistant starch In the hope I could address some other health issues, anyway had a massive reaction to the gut protocol (5 days of extra toilet visits a huge panic attack) and the concerta seems to be having a different effect now. I’m feeling very sleepy on it now. I looked up the work of Dr Charles Parker and bought his book and it made a lot of sense however I’m not sure changing my gut to a more receptive environment for the meds to work is going to be easy

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