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It helps a lot, toofat. Thanks. I’m finding that I forget to take it a lot so probably have a ‘med holiday’ 2 days per week at the moment! I also have been wondering if I should go back down to 18mg as, although they don’t have the same benefit at that dose, i think if I am able to use other strategies too I’ll be able to manage on that dosage. The 27 is good but I do find that I can get quite a similar feeling sometimes to when I am rushing towards a deadline and managing to get into gear. I don’t need to do that if I’m able to pace myself, which the drugs do help me to do to a certain extent.
Difficult to manage without a psych supporting me and difficult to manage too when the outward chaos is out of my control at the moment – like the home schooling which I wasn’t expecting to have to do. My 8 year old is working at 16 year old level in science and they just can’t accommodate him in school so I’m having to learn GCSE level physics and chemistry to help him! A nice problem to have but not an easy path for the boy, who has some inattention and working memory deficits too – and perfectly ‘average’ maths ability – so hard to pitch just right for obvious reasons!
And the car accident – I didn’t even mention it in my first post as i wasn’t thinking about it but it was skewing my perception too as I was ‘high’ from the adrenaline. Plus, some numnut set a fire first thing in the morning and I had to walk through the smoke and it set my asthma off and so my blood pressure and pulse were through the roof…
So, yes, sorting out what’s my ADHD, what’s the meds, what’s just general life and what’s the ‘extra’ stuff thrown at me is hard. I don’t think I really need to know, except that I need to know what the meds are doing to me – everything else is just what gets thrown at all of us and we all have periods of more niggly stuff getting in the way.
What’s good is that, with the meds, I’m able to cope with having ADHD. It doesn’t feel like I’m constantly stuck in quick sand. So I guess I’m also just learning how to cope with life instead of being swamped by it!
That’s pretty cool!
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