My insurance only covers one pill of that Vyvanse. Dextroamphetamine is a titration medication. Meaning you would take small pills and stack smaller doses on top.
Transgender therapy requires the same titration method of estrogen pills. Same number of pills actually. The half life is shorter so the initial dose is not as large, proportionally. There is also more of a need for nocturnal doses.
The other pills don't require titration at all. Just one or two sometime during the day. Usually in the morning.
Progesterone has to be time released. It is not as important to maintain a steady dose as the estrogen so it can be used topically.
If you are following my logic here... the one pill a day will make you a ***** before noon, give you menopause in the evening and you'll wake up like a man in women's underwear in the morning. Weird and crazy. Crazy and weird. What's the emergency?
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Originally Posted by flannel_pajamas
From what I've been reading, it sounds like depression is *more* common with ADHD than among the non-ADHD population, but not positive. It's just what I've been seeing as I've been researching this stuff the last few days.
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I don't think there is a correlation between the two. It's not impossible to have depression. You could be prescribed ADHD medication for depression. It's not a common practice, at least for first line treatment. The thought of time "time release" becoming an overriding virtue of medicine is depressing. It does boil down to consideration of the accepted literature. Without that you aren't being treated accordingly.
It's kind of like what the pill does to you or what you are doing with the pills. The taking of the medication is an active participation. You can become dependent on/addicted to anything otherwise. (which may not be a bad thing)