So it's been about a week, I quickly learned NOT to take meds after 1 pm unless I plan to stay up all night, lol. My doc said I could cut the dose if I wanted so I have been doing 10 mg 2x a day. It works pretty well but sort of bottoming out around 8 pm. It may just have to be that way but I'm gonna play with some other combos too to see what works best. Today I'm gonna try 20 in the am and 10 at 12:30 and see if that keeps me a couple hours longer in the evening which would be good. I rode the morning shop ride Friday on a full dose to watch my heart rate and I couldn't really tell anything above normal. We averaged 18.5 so that was a pretty hefty ride for me. I figured I'd try it around people I know pretty well, I can trust those guys too. All in all it was a good ride and I didn't feel bad from the meds so that it awesome. Yesterday morning I'm not sure but I had a bit of a crying fit in the am cuz BF said something that hit me pretty wrong. I hope these aren't indicative of things to come. Right now I realize my body and mind is going throuh a lot. It's ok to have a crying fit once in a while regardless :-) The stomach is still kinda upset a lot but seems to be easing up well unless I eat fried chicken. Yeah I was bad at work and had some they brought in for us and nearly died. Won't do that again. I see why weight loss is a side effect now. Greasy foods are deadly hard on my stomach. Thank God for Greek yogurt is all I have to say! I hope me posting all this is useful to atleast one woman out there who ends up with a late diagnosis like mine. After a LOT of researching I am really happy I finally figured this out, most women in my situation live very unhappy lives and never know why. This drug therapy has a lot of side affects for sure but I think I will take them all over feeling the lever of 'crazy' I have dealt with in the my life this far. I hear a lot of smack talk on the Internet about people abusing the meds for this disorder and is really makes me angry bc then there are people like me out there that have drammatic positive changes due to it. We aren't just abusing it for shits and giggles we also don't get 'high' off of it. If you genuinely have ADD it doesn't make you high at all, it calms you down on your mind so you don't have a constant bottle neck of thoughts racing every hour of every day. You can focus in other words. I know this probably seems like a book but like I said before if it helps one other woman it's worth it. I specify a woman simply bc it's REALLY hard to diagnose for us. I have been to various psychologists for anxiety, panic and depression for the last 10 years and nothing has been as helpful as this. It took 2 psychologists and a trip to my regular doc to convince ME I had his disorder if that puts it in perspective for you.