I barely recognise myself on Elvanse. Can anyone relate?

Medication

Hi, this feels like such a first world problem (and probably really weird), but I'm wondering if anyone's had a similar experience.

Started 30mg elvanse on 19th July, 2 weeks later went to 50, and now I'm on 60 (going to 70 next week).

Whilst the main effects of the meds have been life changingly brilliant for me, I have had some bad anxiety (see my previous post on this sub), and often I'll catch myself talking, and saying things, and having all this energy to talk, and it feels like I've just done a line of ❄️. (Apologies if that's inappropriate, but if you know, you know.) And I start getting anxious and feeling like I'm behaving really differently to how I used to, and like I've lost who I was before I started the meds. Like I'm almost not "me" anymore.

And you know when you've had a big night the night before, drinking etc, and you've maybe talked a lot, overshared, etc and you feel embarrassed (or "beer fear"). I feel like that, a lot. Like I'm thinking "am I talking too much, am I bring too energetic, am I annoying people".

Does any of this make sense to anyone and can anyone relate? I just feel like I'm going nuts sometimes.

I am starting with therapy again next week and definitely gonna unpack all this and work through it with my counsellor!

Thanks in advance for any help

Posted Aug 30, 2024, 11:54 AM UTC

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