The Titrate blog
Titration, explained week by week
Evidence-based guides on stimulant titration, medication tracking, and turning your lived experience into data your prescriber can actually use.
The Complete Stimulant Titration Timeline: Week by Week
What to expect during each week of ADHD stimulant titration — dose adjustments, side effects, rebound windows, and what to track. Based on NICE NG87 and CADDRA guidelines.
How to Prepare for Your ADHD Medication Review Appointment
Exactly what to track and bring to your medication review — dose logs, side-effect checklists, effect curves — so your prescriber sees the full picture in under 30 seconds.
Non-Stimulant ADHD Medications: Complete Guide
Everything you need to know about non-stimulant ADHD medications — Strattera, Intuniv, Qelbree, and clonidine — how they work, dosing, onset timeline, and who they're best for.
ADHD Medication Side Effects: Complete Guide to Common and Rare Side Effects
A comprehensive guide to ADHD medication side effects — appetite suppression, insomnia, anxiety, crash/rebound, and rare serious effects — with management strategies for each.
Best Time to Take Adderall or Ritalin, With or Without Food
The usual morning timing for Adderall, Ritalin and Vyvanse, whether to take your dose with breakfast, and how late a dose can go before it affects sleep.
ADHD and Sleep: How Medication Affects Your Sleep + Solutions
Why ADHD and sleep problems go hand in hand — and how stimulants affect sleep architecture. Practical strategies for better sleep while on ADHD medication.
ADHD-Friendly Productivity Systems That Work With Your Brain
Why traditional productivity advice fails ADHD brains — and what actually works. Body doubling, Pomodoro for ADHD, peak medication windows, and neuroscience-backed strategies.
Concerta Titration Timeline: What to Expect Week by Week
Concerta (methylphenidate ER) titration week by week: how the dose is stepped, the label's 6–10 hour peak, side effects, rebound, and what to log.
Elvanse / Vyvanse Crash: When It Hits and Why (With a Timing Chart)
The Vyvanse label puts the peak about 4 hours after the dose. See the typical curve, what people describe when it wears off, and what to tell your prescriber.
Switching ADHD Stimulants: What Your Prescriber Needs to See
A structured before-and-after report template for switching ADHD stimulants — from Ritalin to Concerta, Concerta to Vyvanse/Elvanse, or any other change.
Atomoxetine Titration Week by Week: What to Expect on Strattera
A week-by-week guide to atomoxetine (Strattera) titration for ADHD: the label's dose steps, how onset builds over weeks, side effects, CYP2D6, and what to ask your prescriber.
ADHD Dose Journal Template: What to Track During Titration
A printable daily and weekly dose journal template for ADHD medication titration — plus a one-page prescriber report format and how to track stimulant and non-stimulant switches.
What Does 'Titrate' Mean? Medication Titration Explained
To titrate a medication means adjusting the dose in small steps until it works with tolerable side effects. What titrate up, titrate down and titrated mean.
ADHD Medication Stopped Working? What to Check Before Your Next Review
Common reasons an ADHD dose that worked seems weaker, what to log for two weeks before you call your prescriber, and how to bring a dated summary to the review.
ADHD Medication With Food or on an Empty Stomach
What the labels for Adderall, Vyvanse, Concerta and Strattera say about food, vitamin C and opening capsules, and what to log for your prescriber.
Methylphenidate IR vs ER: Ritalin, Focalin and Concerta
What the labels for Ritalin, the LA capsule, Focalin, Focalin XR and Concerta say about peak times, doses per day and food, and what to log for your prescriber.
How Long Does Mydayis Last? Onset, Duration and Sleep
What the Mydayis label says about when it starts, why it can last up to 16 hours, how food moves the peak and why insomnia is common, plus what to log.
Qelbree Titration: What the Viloxazine Label Says
The Qelbree label's starting doses, weekly steps and maximums by age, what its studies say about time to effect, the boxed warning, and what to log.
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