Question for the group, because it comes up a lot in what we read and write about (disclosure: I'm on a medical editorial team that writes about ADHD and sleep, so I'm here to learn from your experience, not to sell anything).
Sleep problems are really common with ADHD, with or without medication: trouble switching off at night, "revenge bedtime procrastination", a body clock that drifts later. Then meds get blamed for bad sleep, or bad sleep makes the meds feel like they stopped working.
For those of you who found something that helped:
- Did changing the timing of your dose (earlier, splitting it, switching to a shorter or longer acting form) change your sleep?
- Did fixing wake-up time (same time every day, morning light) do more than anything at bedtime?
- Anyone found that sleep was the real problem all along, e.g. sleep apnea or a delayed body clock that got diagnosed later?
- What did NOT help, even though everyone recommends it?
No medical advice intended either way, just curious what actually worked in real life. Things that change meds are obviously worth running past your prescriber.