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Which doctor threatened to take you off meds, unless you paid $1600 for a test to prove what was already so obvious???
Making you pay $1600 for a test they say you need to get before they’ll help you, even though there’s already plenty of evidence that you have ADHD, sounds a lot like those “talent scouts” or “agents” who tell you that you have the perfect look to be an actor or model—but you have to spend thousands of dollars on courses with their teachers, and photos with their photographer, before they can try to get you work.
Were the meds you were on actually working for you? If not, your doctor should have tried a different med or meds. Every person is different, and just because a person doesn’t respond to one med doesn’t mean they don’t have ADHD. It may just mean that they have to try a different med. In treating any mental or mood disorder, the only way to find the right med(s) and dose(s) is by trial and error. It’s tough, and frustrating, but it’s the only way.
I can understand your desperation to find things that will help you, but please, please, please, thoroughly investigate every possible solution BEFORE you spend money on it! While something may work for some people, every case is different. You need to determine the science behind each of these “new miracle” treatments. And that means, looking at whether or not there’s been any proper, independent, double-blind, clinical testing, and what that testing found. If the results were quantifiable and repeatable, then the chances are pretty good that the treatment may work for you. But if the only “proof” that the treatments work, is anecdotal evidence (i.e., people saying, “It worked for me, when nothing else would”), then the chances are pretty good that the treatments are (at best) ineffective, and (at worst) a scam.
Keep an open mind to possibilities, but be careful. And ask your doctor (or perhaps a different doctor whom you trust, if yours is the one who forced you to fork out all that money) what (s)he thinks of it, before investing your money, time, and hope.
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