Day 4 on Adderall XR (an update)

Ok so today is day 4 for me on Adderall XR and here is what I have noticed so far up until now.

Friday night which was night one I definitely had a lot of trouble sleeping. I took the Adderall at 8:30 am that morning and didn't really get any sleep until sometimes around 3 in which I think I slept in 15 minute to half an hour gaps until about 6:30 am saturday morning when I guess I was finally so tired that I slept for about 2.5 hours solid. I did notice however that sometime in the middle of the night my normal brain kicked in and started to chatter which was a secondary reason to not being able to sleep.

Saturday I slept in until about 9:30am once I had gotten sleep. I took the Adderall at about that time when I woke up. I noticed that while on this I definitely do just start doing things and things actually get done. :) Yay huge bonus there. I managed to sleep a lot better saturday night sleeping in longer periods of time of min an hr each. I did wake up a lot still and also still noticed the chatter kick in in the middle of the night.

Sunday morning I woke up at 7:20am naturally though still groggy from lack of sleep from the last few nights. I was going to go back to sleep but I accidently woke up Kyle and he then asked me if I was going to take the Adderall then and then try and go back to sleep so that it might wear off earlier to help me sleep better that night knowing that this morning I had to be up early.

 So I grumbled about it really wanting more sleep. I finally got up 5 minutes later and took the Adderall and then tried to go back to sleep. At this point however the downside was the light was coming through the cracks in the window and my brain had now done some thinking which means it got turned on and started to chatter and then of course the meds kicked in. I got out of bed after trying to get back to sleep half an hour later. I felt not too sleepy though.

 I went to bed around 9:30pm last night and even though was nervous about my new job I started this morning and it took me a little bit to get to sleep, I got a reasonable sleep last night and woke up before my alarm (this was most likely due to nerves). I took the Adderall first thing and surprisingly gave been awake and in a good mood (not my normal grumpy tear someone apart for disturbing me at an ungodly hour that I normally am). I am currently feeling a  bit tired.

I did notice that it definitely does weird things to the appetite and so when I am hungry I dont feel my body telling me so in its normal way. I figure just eat on a schedule and eat the same amount as normal and I should be fine. I still get grumpy if I haven't eaten enough.

I still forget things even though I feel a bit more focused and I still have the crazy talk all the time and other traits of the ADD. I however feel much less anxious in general though still a little bit so here and there.

That is my update for now. Will update again in the next couple of days.

By the way the first day of work was busy but good. I hope I can learn all of the stuff I need in time before people leave me on my own to figure it out.