So… It will fix my ADHD AND make me not fat anymore??? Sign me up!
Well, yes! But actually no.
It doesn’t make it so you don’t have to eat; it makes it so you don’t feel hungry.
But that’s like the difference between being impervious to damage and not feeling pain.
You’re still physiologically dragged down by the damage, even if it isn’t registering as a “feeling”.
Your ADHD body (if it’s like mine) basically has a warning light flashing all the time, saying HUNGRY SLEEPY GONNA PASS OUT IF NOT EATING HUNGRY inside your brain, even when you’re not THAT hungry, because your brain is desperate for things to do to keep itself awake. And you may think, “well okay, turn off the broken warning light”, but that doesn’t fix that you need proper nutrition, and that you no longer feel an urgent need to eat properly, since the warning light is gone.
You actually have to be more vigilant in a lot of ways. To make sure you don’t hurt yourself or end up nutrient deficient or something—again personally I’m literally grappling with having too little Potassium in my diet presently, I have to be very aware of what I eat.
So, similar to Ozempic?
wishful thinking… They make me piss in a cup and get weighed every time I go into my Dr’s office and the needle only goes one way and never the way I want it to go.
That was my favorite part about it! unfortunately while it did help me work, I ended up working on a bazillion different things at once and had a hard time finishing anything, so I had to go back to focalin. My niece however swears by it.
Yup, one of the many reasons I switched to Strattera as a teenager.
I know this post is old, but did it help? I originally stopped taking ADHD meds (probably Vyvanse) because they absolutely decimated my already poor appetite. I really want to start something, but I don’t want that again.
In my experience, yes my meds do help a lot. I can’t do stimulants and have found that Strattera is a great alternative. I’m able to work and keep focus. I’ve been taking it for over a decade now.
