Is it a thing to use a different stimulant dose the week before your period?

Using a different stimulant dose the week before a period is discussed in some hormone-informed ADHD writing as a clinician option, not as a standard community practice. CADDRA's practice summary states that some clinicians consider individualising stimulant dosing around the premenstrual phase. That sentence is not an instruction for you to take a different dose next luteal week. If the change is persistent, distressing, or affecting daily functioning, bring a brief timeline to the prescribing clinician rather than changing the dose independently. Related reading: https://www.fastreat.com/en/blogs/adhd-in-women-signs References: https://www.caddra.ca/wp-content/uploads/Practice-Summary-based-on-ADHD-and-Hormones-in-Women-with-Sara-Binder.pdf https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng87/chapter/recommendations https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/attention-deficit-hyperactivity-disorder-adhd/ https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/pre-menstrual-syndrome/

I asked about a different dose the week before my period because I had heard that some clinicians consider it. Mine did not write that plan for me. I felt embarrassed for asking. I still take the same morning amount. I brought a dated list of rotten weeks instead of experimenting at home. This is not advice to try it yourself.

We never changed the milligrams. What changed was me finally writing luteal, useless on a sticky note so I was not gaslighting myself. Sleep was the other story, and I said that out loud at the follow-up. I would not borrow someone else's cycle dose. I told the clinic I wanted a log, not a borrowed milligram change from the internet.