Coaching practices for How Do I Know If Vyvanse Isn't Working for Me

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• I’m weighing myself every morning and letting that one jumpy number decide whether the whole thing is working
• Two cups used to do it and now four barely register
• For me the dose that wakes me up is basically the same dose that makes my heart race and my hands shake
• I pour the same coffee at the same time every day without ever asking whether I actually need it
• Some days caffeine is fine and some days it tips me into dread, and I can’t tell where my own line is

Practices that may help

1. Measure how you feel, not just the scale
   Judge fasting by energy, focus, sleep, and your relationship with food — not weight alone.
   Intermittent Fasting, Honestly Explained
2. Cycle off caffeine periodically to reset adenosine receptor sensitivity
   Regular caffeine use upregulates adenosine receptors — a periodic abstinence period restores baseline sensitivity.
   Strategic Caffeine Use
3. Recognizing and managing caffeine-driven anxiety
   If caffeine makes you anxious or jittery, it is working as a sympathomimetic — the anxiety is the adenosine blockade overshooting alertness into activation.
   Caffeine Timing: How to Use Coffee Without Wrecking Your Sleep
4. Dose caffeine by need, not by habit
   Use caffeine as a targeted tool when alertness is genuinely needed, not as a reflexive morning ritual.
   Strategic Caffeine Use
5. Find your personal anxiety threshold dose
   Log dose and anxiety symptoms to find the milligram level where your anxiety tips.
   Caffeine and Anxiety: What the Research Actually Says
6. Run a 2-week caffeine-free anxiety audit
   Remove caffeine entirely for two weeks to establish your true anxiety baseline.
   Caffeine and Anxiety: What the Research Actually Says
7. Diagnose the cue and the real reward first
   You cannot substitute a routine until you know what trigger fires it and what payoff it delivers.
   Habit Substitution: Swap the Routine, Keep the Reward
8. Periodic caffeine tolerance reset
   A 5–7 day caffeine abstinence every few months resets adenosine receptor sensitivity and restores caffeine’s alerting effect.
   Caffeine Timing: How to Use Coffee Without Wrecking Your Sleep
9. Prevent the caffeine crash with smaller, timed doses
   Smaller, timed doses every 3–4 hours maintain consistent adenosine blockade rather than a single large dose that peaks and crashes.
   Caffeine Timing: How to Use Coffee Without Wrecking Your Sleep
10. Target high-stimulation inputs, not "dopamine"
    Reframe the goal from "lowering dopamine" to reducing the cheapest, most intense rewards.
    Dopamine Detox, Honestly Explained

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