Re: Diagnosed at 45 and not sure if meds are working.

[billd]

Sounds a bit like me. I went through 3 diagnosis – my “family doc” agreed with me that I have ADHD. But he only spend 10 minutes or so with me. I was forwded on to a behavoural specialist – took a 90 minute “intake” test that covered a ton of ground. The follow-up with that place said “Bill, I have no doubt you have ADHD. (severe, obvious)

She then forwarded me onto a neuro-psychologist. He spend 4 and a half hours with me – testing, interviews, puzzles, math, memory, etc. I have it bad. I have social anxiety but they said that often goes with ADHD.

(I also have sleep issues I’ve written about in this forum a couple of times as well.

Finally after months of going back and forth and testing was put on Adderall XR (generic) 20mg / day. I just finished 2 weeks on it. The first few days (about 3 or 4 days) it kept me awake all day, plenty of energy, no naps. I didn’t sleep at all the first couple of nights but have since settled into decent sleep at nights now. However, I feel it’s not really done a thing for my ADHD.

I still can’t remember anything, I get confused with long to-do lists, can’t decide where to start, I’m once again getting very tired mid-day and this weekend went right back into the old take an afternoon nap habit (although I kept it short today, only 45 minutes)

I had trouble getting back to chores today, still put things off that I REALLY should be doing, and instead do things I’d rather do or want to do – if I can even talk myself into doing those. I don’t focus well, easily distracted still, can’t make decisions very well, but I’m half wondering if that isn’t just a little better, or WAS for the first few days I took this stuff.

So it’s like it’ was stort of maybe helping a bit for a few days, and now, back to the old me – but I don’t feel it ever really did much for my ADHD – just my sleep issues. I do find I’m quite irritable. I find myself wanting to snap some heads off (but a few actually deserve it LOL)

Maybe 20 mg isn’t going to be enough for me………..

It’s almost as if my body adjusted to it and sort of fell back to how things were – again, not that I felt it helped the ADHD – but it sure kept me from napping and getting really tired so easily. I almost felt borderline narcolepsy at times.

Doesn’t help I have SO much to do, keep taking on more stuff, and I really don’t care for my work situation at all. I like some of what I do – just not the place/people/situation. They are moving me into very boring, complex stuff, believe it or not, actually over my head and I never figured I’d find anything like that! HA.

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