Elvanse Day 1

Elvanse Day 1

So, I want to document my first 28 days on Elvanse. Haha, I have ADHD — let’s see if I can actually sustain this.

Days 1–7 will be on 30mg, then days 8–28 will be on 50mg.

🚀 Main Takeaway: The Fog Has Lifted

The beginning of the rest of my life. I wasn’t sure what to expect, but within 10 minutes of taking the medication, everything changed.

I moved a table into the attic — something I had put off for days. To any neurotypical person, this sounds trivial, but for me? It was huge. No procrastination, no overthinking. I just did it.

Then, I sat at my laptop, opened Visual Studio Code, and cried. I could see letters and numbers clearly, not just a blur of blue on black. For the first time, coding made sense — I wasn’t fighting my brain. I had been struggling with a project for months, relying on AI tools to patch things up, making everything worse. But today, I just worked. And I enjoyed it.

📌 Two Small Details

  1. No distractions
    Usually, when my girlfriend asks me to make a coffee, it turns into a 45-minute procrastination cycle — scrolling, snacking, and finding anything else to do. Today? I made the coffee and went straight back to work without fighting myself.

  2. No doomscrolling
    I picked up my phone at lunchtime, opened Facebook, and thought: meh, seen all this before. I chucked my phone aside and got back to work. That never happens.

🧠 One Realisation

I’m not lazy. I’m not stupid. My brain just works differently.

For years, I thought I was just one more self-help book, one more course, one more degree away from being the person I wanted to be. But it was a never-ending cycle — because I wasn’t addressing the actual problem. Today, for the first time, I feel capable.

By the evening, I could feel the meds wearing off. The distractions started creeping back in. The superhero shrunk back to a frog. And then it hit me: this is my life now. A battle, but one I can finally fight.

Final Thought: Best Day of My Life So Far

If you had to sum up Thursday, 27th February in seven words?

“Best day of my life so far.”