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@wholesumdiane, I love your thoughts. You really capture the one-step forward, two-steps back, three forward, one sideways, one back, two forward... pathway we follow as we deal with ADHD. Our own, or someone else’s.
In our new video series on medication we interviewed 18 adults who shared their ‘medication’ stories. I was not surprised by the range of experiences. From the lucky ones, like me, who found the right medication quickly and found it made a dramatic difference, allowing them to stick to all the other tools and strategies that hadn’t worked before, to people who took months, or even two years to finally find the right amount of the right medication. And yes, one woman who had a bad experience because the ADHD medications interacted with other medications she was taking for other disorders. (That’s when it get’s really tricky.)
But for perhaps 11 or 12 of the 18, it took a while to figure it out. And I admired them for sticking with it. I suppose part of it was they noticed a difference right away, or sensed it could make a difference, and were willing to trust their doctor and stick with it.
Oh, and yes, the other thing a number of people talked about, was finding the right doctor. In fact, even some of the doctors talked about the importance of finding someone who knows what they are doing. Not easy.
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