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Hi guys,

I am all set for an appoitment with a doctor specialized in ADD in adulthood.

My son is ADHD and I know I am too. So providing I am ADD positive, what then? Will my life really change? Will my procrastination decrease?will I have side effects? Will I feel lost

Just curious what you think.

Got upset about going to afterschool. No problem, he was to wait for me to come get him. He wouldn’t calm down so they physically moved him to the conference room and all **** broke loose. Threw stuff, chipped the glass table, hit the principle. Suspended for 2 days.

I am at a loss. He was doing so well. What in hades makes him act like that??!! School thinks he’s misdiagnosed. I have asked dr about that before and they think no. Do I seek another dr’s opinion? Do you think counseling will really help in this area? Does he need a different med like risperadal or abilify?

It just breaks my heart, he cried in the office and told me he was a bad boy. We are really trying to get him to understand that he’s not a bad boy but he made a very bad choice. If he had just calmed down, I would have gotten him and all would be well.

Guess I’ll move the kids back to the YMCA afterschool which is at the school so there is no transportation needed. As a consequence, he cannot play any video games until he shows us on the first day back to school that he can make good choices. I don’t know what else to do.

Hello,

I was wondering people. One of the primary thing most ADD’ers have in commin with each other is that they have constant thoughts in them. Are there people who have ADD or slow processing speed disorder ( mostly comorbid with ADD ) with no thoughts?

Is it possible to have inattentive ADD without the constant thoughts but still difficult concentrating, getting allot of stimulations at once, bad at organizing, procastrination etc.?

I have all the symptoms of ADD but i don’t have the constant thoughts in my head. Is it likely to be something else or?

I apologize in advance … this will be long. But I want to share my story in case there are others who are as ignorant and wrong as I was.

I am a newbie and I have a confession to make. I have been firmly in denial about my son’s ADHD since his diagnosis 3 months ago. I told myself, “he can’t *possibly* have ADHD.” :rolleyes: He’s just stubborn. He could behave if he wanted to. He doesn’t run around and act wild (my perception of ADHD was a child acting like the hamster in Over the Hedge when he gets into the energy drinks). And he can build with Legos for hours — how can *that* be attention deficit??? I was convinced it could not be. No way.

School started 2 weeks ago and I was certain that this year would be different. His teacher last year just didn’t understand him, didn’t like him, didn’t like boys … whatever. But THIS was a new year. THIS time it would be different. They would see.

But alas, no. It is *I* who has seen (finally!). Every day he has gotten in trouble for breaking classroom rules. Every blessed day. I couldn’t hide behind “just a bad day.” Right out of the gate, the same issues as last year. I could deny no longer. Maybe they were right about his having ADHD … and so I began to read.

And the light bulb went off when I read the sticky thread by DizFriz. I will be forever thankful because I believe it may save my son from years of frustration and heartache. I was focused on the words ‘Attention Deficit’ and ‘Hyperactivity’ … and what I thought that meant. How wrong I was!! DizFriz’s essays explained clearly that my son’s brain cannot let him do what he *knows* is right. It’s a dysfunction of output. That describes him to a T.

You can literally see the disappointment on his sweet little face when he’s made us angry (how many times do I have to tell you??? You promised us you would be good — what happened???). All along I thought he was just stubborn and lazy. I thought he was manipulating us (did I mention that he is extremely bright?). But now I realize that he CAN’T do what he knows he should. I’ve been expecting him to behave like a 7 year old (or even older because of his intelligence), when he functions at 30% less than that. Holy Moly!!

So, a long winded way of saying: 1) I’m so sorry for having judged ADHD by a stereotype and 2) thank you, thank you from the bottom of my heart for opening my eyes.

I started taking adderall xr 5mg 2 months ago. Although the improvements are nice, the edginess and anxiety I feel are just too much. The sexual side effects suck, and my personality is flat. Can I just stop taking the meds, or is there a way to stop taking them?

I use the lorazepam(ativan) for my anxiety attacks and I hurt my back last week moving my friend in to his house. SO I took a small 15mg dose of hydrocodone(3 tabs of 5/325) I feel sleepy but I have to go to an appt. in 30 minutes. Should I take my Adderall?? WHich one I take?

I have 10mg IR, 30mg IR, 30 XR

Hi everyone,

First of all, I’m sorry about any waffling about, or weird style of writing, or anything else. This is my second post on here, and I get really anxious about what people think when they read what I write. Part of the ADD-related inferiority complex, I guess. Plus writing in my second language. Posting this is sort of a big thing for me :S

I have been wondering if any of you ever had trouble pacing your relationship. I feel like I can never gauge how long I should wait until I communicate with the other person again, in the early stages. If someone is on my mind a lot, it is very hard for me to resist the temptation of contacting them, even if I know that it is not the right thing to do. I end up doing it and feeling guilty about maybe not playing it out right and being obnoxious. On the contrary, if I force myself to wait, I feel like every minute that person is becoming more and more distant, and that I might be ruining my chances by not doing the right thing at the right time. Either way, that whole “timing it” thing feels like arbitrary impulse control, rather than doing it when it feels right in the larger scheme of things. I hope that makes any remote sense.

I’ve been taking Adderall for the last two months and it has helped improve my life drastically. I am on 20 IR and I try and take them early in the day right before I have to do work. My first scrip was from Wally World and it was Barr. They worked great and I had no noticeable side effects. I got my second scrip filled at the Walgreens right around the corner, and it was by Core.

Within the of starting the Core, I started to get a slight tightness in my throat and what I thought was the start of a throat infection. I don’t have my tonsils out and manage to catch streph at least twice a year do to allergies. Went and got a some antibiotics from my doctor. Thought it would solve the problem….. I was wrong.

It is three weeks later after the end of the antibiotic regimen and my tongue is still swollen and my throat is still sore and there is no throat infection.

I was wondering if anyone in the forum has ever had this occur, and if so how long did it last and is there anything to do to help and alleviate the swelling??? It is about unbearable and I think I am going to talk to stop the Adderall for a week, talk to my physician, and maybe get my next scrip filled with Barr.

Any info or ideas would be awesome.

I have been diagnosed with ADD but not quite sure if it is real ADD cause my symptoms is a direct cause of my past drug use. It has been about 10 years since I last used drugs but my symptoms persist. I complain of mostly poor memory and concentration which has tremendously affected my ability to establish any kind of career and have instead been working odd jobs just to get by. I have been on and off many different medications in the past 10 years and Concerta/Ritalin is one of the few meds that has helped. I considered going back on it but my doctor is weary of the idea because he is afraid that because the medication contains methamphetamine, it may cause memory loss in the long run. I have never heard of this happening but I am assuming that I am a special case since it was the same substance in ecstasy and speed, although a much greater dose that had cause my existing memory problems. Also, does it kill sex drive?