I've been on Concerta for about a month, increasing to 27 mg on Saturday. I'm noticing that I'm very distracted when I'm reading (which I do for a living as an editor, hah). My mind will bounce from thoughts of what I did yesterday, something else I've read, somewhere I want to go, etc. I wonder if it was always doing this and the medication has finally made me more aware of it? Has anyone else experienced this? If so, does increasing the dosage make you able to not only being aware of becoming distracted, but also stop losing focus so easily?

Thanks!

When I took Strattera, I could feel that I was being distracted or impulsive or otherwise ADD. Then I began to sense that I could control certain behaviours by being aware of them (and certainly I couldn't always control them, nor did I want to).

In some ways, the major benefit of the med was that it gave me chance to see that some people did think differently-- in short, that not everyone was ADD. I was somewhat unconvinced of that previously.

yes. i take dexedrine and it's really bad sometimes: the awareness of having a mind that's bouncing all over the place. sometimes i wonder: ADD with not paying attention or medicated and paying too much attention.

i can understand how a person who works as an editor must feel though because i do a lot of reading also and it's analytic reading so having a mind that is wandering all over the place can be frustrating.

are you aware of when this is at its worst? when the dose is kicking in or later on? do you need the medication to edit? i know that i am better reading when i am not medicated or when the dose is smaller or wearing off. i slow down.

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are you aware of when this is at its worst? when the dose is kicking in or later on? do you need the medication to edit? i know that i am better reading when i am not medicated or when the dose is smaller or wearing off. i slow down.
I think I'll need to keep track of when my concentration seems better and worse. I think it could help to keep a log. Thanks!

I am currently on Dex aswell, taing 10mg 3x day.

I have really noticed that I guess as it is wearing off, I get incredibly "ADD"

I get overly clumsy, and I forget things ten times more, my mind is always in thought as I am doing things.. so I end up doing stupid mistakes like, turning the wrong burner on the stove on when I am trying to cook something.

I get increasingly more "dumb" as it wears off to, I make rash decisions, or responses without thinking them through.

Would this be considered rebound? Have I always been this bad? Its seems like since I have been taking Dex, I can totally see how I have ADD everytime it starts to wear off, when before I always questioned it...always skeptical.

Any thoughts?

I'm on Adderall, and while I still have the habits of getting easily distracted (22 years of habits won't go away in a few weeks), I find that I recognize more easily when I am distracted and I can direct myself to get back on task. Part of ADD is having poor self-awareness and the meds seem to help me by restoring that.

The dose for your meds is important as well--I had better control at lower doses than higher doses. At higher doses I was more jittery, less able to focus, more add-like.

Getting easily distracted may be a combination of still having our add-habits and the dose of the medication, but that's just my experience and a reasoned guess.