Neither methylphenidate or amphetamine really have worked that well for me. Methylphenidate didn't really help at all for my ADHD combined, but it was years ago when I was first starting medication for ADHD. I ended up getting switched from I believe 36mg Concerta, after being on it two weeks, to 30 mg amphetamine salt combo ER. I always found amphetamine to really only help a couple aspects of my issues. Low doses would be beneficial for some aspects of my issues, while higher doses beneficial for others, both low doses and high doses have there own issues. With too low of a dose I feel anxious, fidgety, little motivation, but can concentrate better. Too high I become hyper focused, obsessive/perfectionist, but have a lot of motivation.
I wish I would be able to get myself to stay on a therapeutic dose of ketamine for ADHD, as I find it to help with majority of my symptoms on top of anti-depressant and anti-anxiety. I just enjoy dosing it to much to be able to stay on a regiment, and that results in short-term memory problems. Wish I had a non dissociative NDMAr antagonist with the therapeutic potential of ketamine.
Buprenorphine I've found to work wonders for my ADHD as well, with good anti-depressant and anti-anxiety effects as ketamine. It also gives me very nice motivation. I went to work a few times on it, and every time I'd work extremely hard with a smile on my face. Was quite nice to be honest. The long duration was also very pleasing.
Amphetamines duration, and the shittyness of ER formulations, always frustrates me. IR amp comes on with a nice time frame, but +3:00 hours after dosing I start to come down, feel a bit off for the next hour or so (can get agitated pretty easily at this point), start getting some fatigue, and get a desire to redose. The ER has the same issues as IR forms with an annoying period of fatigue and mental offness, comes on way to slow, and its duration is long with no real usual expected time to baseline.
Wish I could find a better option for medication than what is currently on the market. I really rather not have stimulants and don't want SSRIs or similar, but doesn't seem like I have much of a choice.
Got word from my friend that the MXE he acquired for me (owed me a decent bit of cash), arrived today at his place of residence. Should be here by the end of the week along with a few things I left up there in town - killing two birds with one stone.
(last night I passed out for most of my trip). I dose orally, I've never really liked the idea of snorting.
