wanting to look into medication but not sure what works best for adults

[Anonymous]

I am 26 years of age and have been treated profesionaly for adhd before. However when I got married years ago the medication was not working as I would have liked it too. I was a zombie to say the least. I was on ritilan, dont remember the dose but I had een on it for years. Now 8 years after stoping medication, one divorce, many many jobs, and lots of debt, I am rethinking medication. My son who is 7 is on medadate 20MG daily and it does ok, so I have thought about seeing what medications work best for me. I have been thinking about this for awhile, but have not taken that step to talk to the doctor yet, clasic, just keep putting it off. tonight I say a show on PBS add and loving it, so I am thinking about making that phone call tomorrow. i is 11:14pm here right now. but I am wondering what medications would best for adults, what is the best place to start. I am going to cll the doctor, bt I am wanting feedback from thoes that are taking medication as to what they have went through and what they think not just what the docto sugests. Please any information would be great. I live in Illinois and have public aid for medical insurance so have to have something that will be covered under the stade aid program.

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[Anonymous]

Hi, from what I have read and been told, and seen here … each of us is on a different drug or drugs, all of those drugs work to a greater or lesser extent ..differently on each of us. Brain chemistry is .. it seems.. uniquely individual as is ADHD as well.

Sorry, no answer that would be any good to you. Many people get great results from what ever they get and others don’t.

Some, statistically, will not get anything from the drugs, but may do well with BT or other stuff.

It is a bit of a crap shoot, the field is still in its early stages, still trying to figure out how to “” fix “” things and not sure as yet how.

Best of luck, doing something is often better than doing nothing … read the forums, good stuff here.

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[Anonymous]

I think the best thing is to go see your doc, a specialist if possible. Narrow down what your issues are, then work with the doc on meds. The meds I’m taking are not what most are, so the discussions weren’t helpful for me in that regard. But I personally feel that meds are necessary for me, I’m older and things have gotten worse for me, I can definitely see how the meds are helping.

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[billd]

A specialist for sure!!!!!!!!!! Neuro-psych for me, and that special licensed nurse was great. In conjunction with the “sleep doctor”, they have a plan. unfortunately, the adderall is no longer having any effect either on my sleep or my add ;-(

Maybe a dosage change.

Check this out – go down about half-way. You may spend months, if not years, finding a med to work, and at a dose that works, only to find you need to change later.

http://helpguide.org/mental/adhd_add_treatments_coping.htm

NEVER EVER give up.

Don’t use the family doc – they don’t know squat – and can’t, they are GENERAL medicine, not specialists in the BRAIN and psychology. They’ll tell you if the meds will impact your heart, etc. – but they are worthless for ADD, IMO, after a lot of digging and experiences.

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[Anonymous]

RANT EDITED

Very bad infection last week, saw my GP, got a script for antibiotics, told not to fill it until I heard back from them, filled it a day later because it was getting much worse. Still haven’t heard back from them about the lab cultures. Why do I have to self-diagnose myself? Why is my doc so cautious and needs someone else to tell him/her what’s wrong with me? No trust, no confidence.

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[billd]

No, no-dop, it’s not that really….. it’s that they’ve found by just “throwing drugs at it” they are forcing nature into more resistant strains and super-strains. It’s a huge concern in medicine right now….. they are trying to get out of the “just toss a drug at it” thing.

Also – malpractice is a concern. My brother was a respiratory therapist in a hospital…his malpractice insurance was over $100,000 a YEAR. Can you afford that? Even some doctors can barely afford that. And he was NOT a doctor!!

But I understand your thoughts – been there myself – I’ve diagnosed my own broken bones, pneumonia, torn tendon, you name it, I often walk in telling them what is wrong…… and have found I have a better than 90% rate of being correct. (LOL – about as good as many doctors)

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[kc5jck]

My son presented with a bunch of seemingly unrelated symptoms when he was about fifteen or sixteen years old, including weight loss from about 190 to 150 lbs. When the fourth or fifth doctor we consulted mentioned liver biopsy and my wife started crying, I figured I better look into what was going on. I normally let my wife deal with all the medical stuff since she is a registered nurse.

After about fifteen minutes on the internet and asking my son one question, I determined that all the symptoms and out of whack lab results could be explained by a reaction to minocycline.

When the specialist still mentioned doing a biopsy I told him that a minocycline reaction explains all the symptoms and that in the two to three weeks of being off the drug while waiting for his appointment, the liver enzymes have dropped 90% of the way back to normal for the first time in almost a year, and you want to do a biopsy?

What else can I say?

Like Billd says, you gotta watch out for yourself.

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