I added my whole story but summarized my question in the last paragraph so you really don't have to read it all, thanks!
I have had ADD my entire life, I only began to suspect that's what it was a few years after failing high school. Until then my family, friends and I all assumed I was just lazy, kinda dumb, spaced out, loosing things, lateness and messiness were just a part of my nature.
At age 25 after reading a lot of articles about ADD I felt I fit that frame perfectly, but I was't sure.
A lot of the qualities described happen to everyone, but not at a constant life chocking frequency.
I decided to see a psychiatrist, who diagnosed me and prescribed me with 15mg of addreall xr.
First day was really weird, I really could focus for hours, had energy and was talking more, and felt kinda high.
The high went away after a couple days and the focus craze toned down and I found a great balance, I got home work, work, driving, cleaning and drawing all done without jumping between tasks, I was able to have a conversation with my husband and stay completely engaged, life was good. Normal.
About two months with that the mistakes started to haunt me again, I missed a stop light, started forgetting things, not as bad as without addreall at all, but still very add.
My doctor prescribed me 20 mg which worked great for a few months and then again my body needed more.
He gave me 25 mg XR, I asked if I'll have to keep upping my dose at this frequency and he suggested I skip a day every other week, which I have been doing.
That's what I've been taking for 4 months now, the last month or so again started to screw up here and there, but I already got a 90 day supplies.
About the beginning of this week it got worse and today I woke up, took my pill and it's been hours since and I feel that cloudy brain, I have many things to do and I jump from task to task never getting anything done. I don't know what to do.
This is clearly an increasing addiction type scenario, and I really do need the chemical help to maintain a normal effective life style but what can I do to be satisfied with a certain prescription for longer than three months?
The skipping a day every other week didn't really make a difference other than making me miserable on skipping day, I would just stay in bed and be really really moody and irritated.
Also what is the limit that can be prescribed? What do I do if I reach that and its still not enough?
Thank you for reading, I would love any advice on this matter.