yep I still get cotton mouth sometimes.My coping mechanism is my meds. Adderall makes me a dehydrated, sort of emotionless zombie but being able to function like a real human being is worth it.
yep I still get cotton mouth sometimes.My coping mechanism is my meds. Adderall makes me a dehydrated, sort of emotionless zombie but being able to function like a real human being is worth it.
Yeah, the whole "my body feels likes strapped to a train" thing doesnt happen.Is it a lot less cracked out? Dexedrine is the same deal; not as much peripheral stimulation.
Yeah, the whole "my body feels likes strapped to a train" thing doesnt happen.
Interesting you picked up on this, particularly the latter part of this quote. What you've mentioned is basically Mindfulness.Focus on fidgets which are silent and not very visible. I play with my wedding ring sometimes. Introspection helps a lot. Focus on yourself, the noises and motions you make, if they are ones you want to discourage focus on doing the positive ones.
I tried this once, before I knew I was ADHD and was trying to self medicate with nootropics etc., and it just made me wired as hell like I was on some bad speed. Maybe the dosage was too high, but whatever... dexamphetamine seems to work quite well for me and is cheap enough here in Australia (around $40 for 300 5mg tablets, which does me for about a month and a half) as it's partly subsidised.
Anybody here have trouble with math? Math has always been a struggle for me and this Algebra class I'm taking for College is kicking my ass.
How have you guys managed?
Meds will help activate your executive functions. I also recommend trying...hmm what do you find interesting about math?
I'm going for testing next week after multiple doctors told me I might have ADD. I feel a little hopeful that my constant lateness, bad scheduling and focus isn't because I just "dont care enough".
Anybody here have trouble with math? Math has always been a struggle for me and this Algebra class I'm taking for College is kicking my ass.
How have you guys managed?
YES. I cannot concentrate long enough to comprehend what the professor is saying. I can concentrate for like 45 seconds of the explanation but then, before I know it, somehow im thinking about something that happened 7 years ago.
I've been on Ritalin for a year and my psychiatrist is letting me switch to another stimulant. It'll be by trial and error so what should I be avoiding and gravitating toward? I hear lots of mixed advice for the various stimulants.
I got diagnosed with Severe ADHD when I was around 7 years old. Been a struggle on and off my whole life. Started on Ritalin when I was a kid and like most kids became a zombie from it which turned me off on medication for the longest time. I now take 2 20mg extended release Adderalls every morning and that has helped a bit. The worst part about ADHD for me is that I have the memory of someone with dementia. My working memory is totally shot, though I am able to remember the most random things from many years ago. I am able to remember events from around age 3 or 4, but I can't tell you what I did this morning outside of my typical routine.
I wish I had a counter for how many times I've walked into a room and completely forgotten whatever the reason for entering the room was.
Also, any tips on helping with my memory issues?
Holy crap, I do the same thing. It may not be as severe to the point where I do it all the time, but it has gotten to the point where I am self-narrating my thoughts without realizing it. My family and friends have caught me doing it before, but luckily I wasn't thinking about anything that would embarrass me or them haha.I was medicated as an adult (briefly) not as a kid; I developed this idiosyncrasy where I narrate aloud everything I'm doing or going to do. Unfortunately, it does extend into regular speech where I repeat my words and sentences to keep myself on track
Not OP but I know for a friend of mine that got tested when they were older they talked with their doctor and psychiatrist and scheduled an appointment for the tests. Should be pretty simple, just explain to them if they ask that you believe you may have symptoms that are in line with ADD or ADHD and just want to make sure that's the case.OP, how do you get diagnosed for it? I'm thinking of making an appt with my doctor tomorrow and I'm not sure how to ask about it.
Thanks. I'll just ask my doc when I see her eventually.Not OP but I know for a friend of mine that got tested when they were older they talked with their doctor and psychiatrist and scheduled an appointment for the tests. Should be pretty simple, just explain to them if they ask that you believe you may have symptoms that are in line with ADD or ADHD and just want to make sure that's the case.
I don't cope very well. Constant anxiety, constant feeling that my life is completely out of control, constant struggle to make it through a single sentence when engaged in conversation I don't find interesting.
I just mask it and try to reassure myself that it's mostly in my head.
Thank you for this. As you can tell, I have been a bit defeatist about my mental state lately. I've had a rough year.You'd be surprised how much your state of mind can exacerbate or relax it down.. it won't be immediate like a drug, it'll take some time; (if you're already taking medication and getting treated that is), you have to find some self esteem, some will, and a direction
if you keep telling yourself you can't cope well then you probably won't, you have to start telling yourself than you can but you'd also have to take steps to address what causes anxiety in some way in the real world
this is personal experience talking, nothing more; take it for what it is
Diagnosed at 19 with ADHD (but clearly had it since an early age, parents were weird about medicating). Was medicated for a few years but haven't been on Concerta for years now. Thought many times of going back on it but it is rather pricey.
Lists have been tremendously helpful as OP points out.
Music is definitely really good at sort of keeping that distracted part of my brain focused (EDM, stuff with as little lyrics as possible).
Since it's been so long since I last was on medication there are a few questions I guess I'd like to have fielded by people more recently medicated.
-Are there any better low-intensity medicines that have developed in the last decade that people would recommend?
-One of my larger fears about Concerta was long-term effects relating to general focus & anxiety. Anybody seen anything about long-term medication use and its effects?
-Is there any medication that you can get without therapy or visits to a psychiatrist? Was one of the more annoying restrictions on previous medication requests.
For my case, hyper-activeness, lack of focus-- fish oil has been completely useless. I think it's probably better for people with memory issues?
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Anyway, I recommend that anyone struggling with AD(H)D, or anyone that thinks they may have it but aren't sure, to give some of these a shot. If you have your own strategies, I'd love to hear them!
Anybody here have trouble with math? Math has always been a struggle for me and this Algebra class I'm taking for College is kicking my ass.
How have you guys managed?
I thought this too, and I suspect every other late-diagnosed ADDer is exactly the same. It's not that everyone is like this, but that they're not like this *all the time*. Everyone has moments of being absent-minded or forgetful or bad at keeping track of time etc., but not everyone lives with it constantly.I just figure that everyone is like this and I'm just exaggerating my symptoms
Sometimes they can make all the difference.
Honestly, I think I have Sluggish Cognitive Tempo more than ADHD.
I thought this too, and I suspect every other late-diagnosed ADDer is exactly the same. It's not that everyone is like this, but that they're not like this *all the time*. Everyone has moments of being absent-minded or forgetful or bad at keeping track of time etc., but not everyone lives with it constantly.
I just wish I'd known that earlier, but better to get diagnosed late than not at all!
Have you tried Focalin? I'm curious how Dexedrine compares to it given that it has the same relation to Adderall that Focalin has to Ritalin.I tried this once, before I knew I was ADHD and was trying to self medicate with nootropics etc., and it just made me wired as hell like I was on some bad speed. Maybe the dosage was too high, but whatever... dexamphetamine seems to work quite well for me and is cheap enough here in Australia (around $40 for 300 5mg tablets, which does me for about a month and a half) as it's partly subsidised.