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I am no expert on this but I did watch a video on CADDAC where the difference was mentioned as the following-ADDers have normal emotions but have trouble regulating the emotions. Bipolar have more emotions than normal. I know that’s a bit simple. I had been misdiagnosed as bipolar AFTER I was diagnosed with ADD. I did try the meds she gave me and stopped after just 4 days because it was wrong. I just found out last week that my husband has been diagnosed as bipolar which actually makes sense in his case. I am doing research about what that means to him but have not gotten very far yet. I know that you can have both bipolar and ADD at the same time.

There are a few of us on this site that know much more about bipolar than I do. I know that they will jump in on this thread and give you more information than I can.

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I have not had gastric bypass but when I weighted 450lbs they were pushing it big time. I said no. I was in my 40’s at the time and had a job and a young daughter and a disabled husband so that kind of thing was just not an option. Can you have it reversed?

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That’s funny, no_dopamine, I have said the same thing for all the years I worked in the computer department. I was always doing something that would make the system freeze or give me error messages. I had brought the company to a standstill more times than I care to remember because I was doing unexpected things or not checking my programing carefully before I ran a report that pulled all the data from the system or put some command in a loop. One of the reasons i did not continue in computers after I got fired from that job.

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I am very interested in what you find out about migrains and ADD. My best friend is ADD (undiagnosed) and gets terrible migrains. I have been trying to get her to get tested for ADD but she is resisting. I think both her children are ADD. One is a stunt man in a show that has gone to china. He dropped out of college and went into showbusiness and he absolutely loves it. Her daughter is younger, around 21 or 22 and went to college for a couple of years but started drinking and now has sever health problems related to her drinking. My friend had built such a wonderful support system around these kids that their ADD symptoms did not show up until they left the nest. Now she thinks that she is a bad mother because she blaims herself for their problems. My thinking is that if I can convince her that ADD meds might help her migrains she will go and get tested for the ADD. I hate to see her suffer needlessly because of something that she has not control over but feels guilty about anyway. Been there, done that, now done with guilt. Of course I still get upset with myself when I do things like lose TWO canes in one week.

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Stephie101-The thing that made me so mad at the psychiatrist is that I am not bipolar and she could not tell the difference between situational depression and bipolar. I have been misdiagnosed with depression and anxiety disorders most of my life. Talk therapy has not helped because the cause has always been the ADD and the depression and anxiety were always byproducts of the ADD. I had been trying to fit my star shaped peg into the wrong shaped hole and was miserable because of it. As far as “mood” disorders go, I have been in a much better “mood” since I was finally able to accept that ADD is a fact of my life, that I am not lazy, stupid or crazy and I am going to find a way to figure out how to motivate myself without using anger, panic and fear to get moving. This is proving difficult but I am determined.

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Stephie101-I think this is more common than not. My latest is the incident with the psychiatrist the County health people sent me to. I had already been diagnosed with ADD but since I went in there crying, I had a lot of bad things going on and was struggling with the diagnosis at the time, she automatically diagnosed me with bipolar and gave me a bipolar medication. The medication made me extremely nasty in only 4 days and gave me such a bad headache that I didn’t take anymore. I have had doctors actually yell at me for asking questions. More than one doctor has yelled at me like I was simple or stupid. My parents were doctors, I worked for a veterinarian as a surgical assistant, I took human anatomy and physiology in college so I have a little knowledge. I guess making the link between what I know and what is happening to me is impaired because of the ADD. Now I look everything up on the internet before I go to a doctor.

My mother used to go to a doctor that had her pegged as a hypochondriac. When she started taking me to see him it was ‘like mother like daughter”. He treated my ADD symptoms with thyroid even though my thyroid was in the normal range. Of course, back then, ADD was almost an unknown, especially in teens and young adults. He treated her double heart murmur and other serious medical conditions as “in her head”. If she had gone to a heart doctor instead they probably would have replaced the leaking valves. She is almost 89 and doing very well never having had heart surgery so kudos to her for keeping going anyway.

I am glad you are going to a G.I. He will find out what is wrong. I had an ulcer in my esophagus once that started bleeding and the hospital made sure it had not perforated then referred me to a G.I. I healed up just fine with the medication he gave me. The ulcer was my fault. I was being worked to death at my job and had taken prescription strength ibuprophen with no water because I felt I didn’t have time to stop and get a drink and it got stuck and burned a hole in my esophagus. I guess that’s kind of an ADD thing to do, I don’t know.

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You are so lucky you didn’t lose your arm to the MRSA. My husband lost both his feet to MRSA infections. They tried for a year to clear up the infection in the first foot but ended up amputating. the second foot followed a year later and the damage the infections did to his body has left him with kidney failure. He is in a nursing home now on dialysis. Be careful about needles.

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ludragonslegacy-very nice poem. I have had someone steal my cyber name and now he is trying to “flame” me. Thats what my daughter calls it. This is a 15 year old kid who actually created an account on this website to track ME down. He had used one of my emails several years ago requesting payment for membership on a Disney game site. I’m not sure if that is illegal or not but I got really pissed. I have done some investigating and found out a few things about him but I’m not sure if I want to persue this kid. It just made me really angry. Fortunately, I tend to forget he’s out there but I get reminded every once and a while.

My daughter wants to get all her friends to “flame” him back but escalating a war never ends it. What do you think I should do?

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Yes I have had cramps so bad that I threw up. I had severe PMS but I don’t think it crossed over into PMDD. I don’t know. It’s a moot point at this stage of my life. Just like my mother, I welcomed menopause with open arms. My daughter is having the same problems I had only earlier in her life.

I did find that vitamins helped a lot. Some months I would sleep for 1 to 3 days. I usually tried not to plan any physical activity during my period but my husband was less than understanding. One time we went to the county fair during the worst part. I was walking in the area of the fair that had the medical tents and one of the nurses ran out of the tent and took my arm and insisted that I come and sit down. During my period I would actually turn gray and looked like I was in shock. I was also very overweight at the time which made everything worse. I did find that being on Prozac made things a hundred times worse. If I remember correctly, Prozac increases the serotonin in your brain. Unfortunately, that also makes PMS worse. I started bleeding really bad before I stopped taking the Prozac. I had to change my pad every 10 to 15 minutes for a couple of hours during the worst day then it would slow down.

The worst period I ever had was about 6 months before I hit menopause. I was driving on a major highway on my way to pick up my daughter. I had picked up some food because I had not eaten dinner yet. Half way to where she was I started getting the severe cramps. It was so bad I just wanted to curl up in a ball but there was no place to pull over due to construction. In just a few minutes the pain got so bad I threw up what I had eaten while driving at 60 mph in a construction zone. The pain kept increasing and after my stomach emptied I lost control of my bladder and bowels and still no place to pull over. I was already late picking up my daughter so with the damage already done, I just kept going. I was an absolute basket case by the time I picked her up and had to take a shower as soon as we got home. I did have fibroid tumors which would contribute to the bleeding and cramps but all that is gone now. Hormone production doesn’t stop until you reach about 80 years old so I still think sometimes I have a ghost of a period with very mild PMS where I just get really cranky and irritable but no bleeding or cramps.

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@faeirynuff do you have legal help? This sounds like a legal issue. I may have a solution for you if you dont already have a lawyer but I want to check with the site managers to see if its ok to post this information.

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I never even considered this before! Although I don’t chronically miss steps now I am very paranoid about the top step. As a kid I remember numerous sprained ankles, twisted knees, torn cartilage. Now that i think about it in 7th grade i misjudged a step and ended up taking 3 at time going down and sprained my ankle. I was always coming up with new bruises and not remembering where I got them. I broke a finger and sprained the one next to it because I insisted on running down a just waxed hallway at a school and landed on my hand. I cut a finger to the bone trying to cut stuff off a ring that I had used to keep the ring from falling off. I stood on a folding chair to fix a party decoration at my brother’s wedding and had the chair fold up on my foot and broke a bone. I am always burning myself when I cook. I hate to cook. I don’t sprain ankles anymore because I walk with a cane now but I still burn myself all the time when I cook.

A couple of years ago I tried to separate two extension cords with a pair of scissors WHILE THEY WERE STILL PLUGGED IN! My daughter witnessed that one. Fortunately the scissors had a plastic handle so it was just sparks and a damaged pair of scissors but to this day I keep telling myself I know better than to do that. I know there are many other incidents of clumsy, downright dangerous behavior that I can’t recall at the moment.

I just never linked this to my ADD before.

Should I be linking this with ADD?

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I recognize the games the spam talks about. Thanks no_dopamine for reporting it.

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Geoduck, my daughter teases me about “the shiny” all the time. I should get that T-shirt. I can’t think of any good stuff right now but I will keep it in mind. Hey that would be a good one ’cause I can’t keep anything in mind.

F: I’ll keep that in mind for…oh look, shiny..

B: uh what were we talking about?

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I love the “Big & Tall store” for ADDers. Thanks for the laugh. This site is the closest thing I know of to that store.

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LMAO-I needed a laugh! I find something important out of place and say “Oh this would be a good place to keep this” and I never see it again. I did that with the title of a car I sold. Found it 6 months after I sold the car and lost contact with they guy i sold it to. He was junking it so it didn’t matter to him so much. Finding a “safe” place to put something usually leads to disaster. I need a dumpster.

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