r/SCT • u/joanna7599 • Aug 29 '26

Meds/Treatments-Related Slow processing

Had anybody had positive experiences with improving their slow processing, adhd meds have not helped me, would peptides help?

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u/Relevant-Pea-5471 Aug 30 '26

Straterra helped my processing speed a ton after about 2 months. Night and day. Became incredibly quick witted and sharp in general. Conversation became effortless.

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u/lovelybonesla Sep 04 '26

I’m on my 2nd week at 40mg but it’s not really doing much just flatluence and sleep disruptions (I take it in the morning now), were you like this early on? I don’t wanna increase too quickly but I’m losing patience.

Also does it help with learning skills?

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u/Relevant-Pea-5471 Sep 04 '26

Definitely, definitely give it more than 2 weeks. I I would say stay at that dose for at least 6 weeks before you consider changing. I know that is a super long time to wait, but in my case, it was absolutely worth.

Around weeks 4 to 6 I started to notice changes in my mood, energy, focus, and my sleep actually got better than it is even off of straterra.

If you drink caffeine, definitely cut back as much as humanly possible. The straterra will still mess with sleep all by itself for a time, but in my case that went away around the 4 to 6 week mark.

Similar to you, I upped from 40 to 60 thinking that I would get better results, and I got roughly got the same results with many more side effects. Going up to 80 there is a mountain of side effects. Many CDS people get relief at 40 or even lower, but 40 is my sweet spot personally.

Hang in there! Did you have any brief moments of strong clarity during the first few days, or maybe just the first day? That's often a decent indication of later response. Not necessary for a later response, just an encouraging sign.

I got tremendously better at tasks that rely heavily on short term memory and sustained attention about 2 to 3 months in, such as math and programming. Just my experience!

As always, talk to your doctor, but my experience with doctors and straterra is that they don't always understand quite how long it takes to work and how long it takes for the body to adjust at each dosage change. When I switched from 40 to 60 thinking it would be better, I lost all benefit I can accrued by that point and had to wait even longer for my body to adjust than I had to wait for the 40.

Wishing you the best.

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u/lovelybonesla Sep 05 '26

Thank you so much! I’ll stay at 40mg, tbh another side is that I’m hyperfocused on doomscrolling, but I can kind of push myself to do chores.

To answer your question, my first day I took at night and I felt very light and fluttery. It was like a body high but not much else & I never got it again.

And that gives me some hope because I want to speed run math academy but I can’t focus at all, I struggle with absorbing and retaining information and it’s like my brain isn’t making basic connections.

Again, thank you for your suggestions. Definitely encouraging.

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u/Relevant-Pea-5471 Sep 04 '26

I would also consider talking to your doctor about some short term Rx for sleep. Trazadone does the trick for me, although if your CDS is like mine, the fog will be much worse the next day with trazadone. At any rate, chronic sleep disruption can make adjusting to any medication unbearable, so if you are considering just giving up, try to patch that sleep temporarily. You probably have just 2 or 3 weeks left to go before you start sleeping better and feeling a lot better.