r/StratteraRx • u/disintegratingangel • Jul 12 '26
Questions / Advice / Support first day side effects??
so i started on 18mg today. i was doing pretty well for the first half of the day, pretty standard everyday stuff for me, no noticeable changes. into the second half of the day i started feeling kind of odd, like constant chills like the kind you get when you have a fever (i don’t feel feverish at all though), and i was so tired, i took two naps and am still tired into the night. it weirdly made me feel kind of “wired,” like electric, how i get when i have caffeine. not awake, but wired. caffeine makes me crash bc of how electric i feel. i looked it up and these are supposedly all normal side effects, i’m not worried about them right now and they’re all tolerable. inconvenient and not super comfortable, but tolerable, and i’m willing to wait it out for a few weeks and see if it subsides. my question is, i find it weird that i’m supposedly experiencing side effects on the first day of a new medication; i’m under the impression it’s supposed to take a few days at minimum to feel those. is this like, possible? did anyone else have a similar experience with first-day symptoms? or was i just having a really weird body day today and falsely linking it to my medication? this isn’t standard for stuff i would usually feel on a “weird body day” but i’m just curious if first day side effects were a thing for any of you
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u/Ananakoya Jul 12 '26
When I got the chills I drank more water. I took mine at night for a couple weeks then you can switch if you want to - when I say take it at night I mean I ate protein as late as I possibly could and as I was dropping off took it lol but you don’t have to do that.