In the UK, my psychiatrist has been taking my pressure every 6 weeks when I go back as I try to find an ADHD drug and dosage that works. This has been the case for all the stimulant type meds I've tried. I'm now finishing up my 6th week on the basic dose of atomoxetine, the first non-stimulant I've tried, and I'm guessing I'll not have my pressure tested later this week.
I had off-book buproprion, not for ADHD but depression and anxiety, from the same psychiatrist from several months before they gave me an ADHD diagnosis, and didn't get my pressure tested then. Funnily enough I found that double the max UK dose (600mg/day, an accidental misreading of the dosage wording after a few months) worked perfectly with my so-called rejection sensitivity and hypermentalisation. Whether those symptoms were in some part generated by ADHD, it is possible, and whether my ASD or ADHD somehow gives me a buproprion hyposensitivity is questionable (as I have heard that ND folk can more often have a hyper and hypo sensitivity to drugs), but it didn't help my attention. I had to stop that when a) the manufacture of buproprion was halted due to detected impruties and b) so I could get to try ADHD meds. It made me very sad because I knew I would regress, I have indeed been emotionally unstable and prone to crises since and broke up with my partner in large part due to this.
some adhd symptoms are connected to depression and cptsd as far as I read. Might be one reason, the meds don't work for you. Does caffeine agitate or calm you down? That might be one of the clues - but I'm just starting out on the journey
I had off-book buproprion, not for ADHD but depression and anxiety, from the same psychiatrist from several months before they gave me an ADHD diagnosis, and didn't get my pressure tested then. Funnily enough I found that double the max UK dose (600mg/day, an accidental misreading of the dosage wording after a few months) worked perfectly with my so-called rejection sensitivity and hypermentalisation. Whether those symptoms were in some part generated by ADHD, it is possible, and whether my ASD or ADHD somehow gives me a buproprion hyposensitivity is questionable (as I have heard that ND folk can more often have a hyper and hypo sensitivity to drugs), but it didn't help my attention. I had to stop that when a) the manufacture of buproprion was halted due to detected impruties and b) so I could get to try ADHD meds. It made me very sad because I knew I would regress, I have indeed been emotionally unstable and prone to crises since and broke up with my partner in large part due to this.