My first day on Adderall :-) | ADHD Information
My doc has been on vacation for two weeks, it will be
interesting to see his face when I rattle off all the things I have done since
going back on the Adderall, socially I am like a different person and maybe
that's partially cause I'm not hyper focusing on myself anymore (never in a positive way)
and have come "out of my mind"?
I relayed to my doc how for a few days after breaking my
wrist and having surgery, (on my southpaw so I was really having to figure out
ways to do everything) I felt more friendly toward people, more at ease, weird
when you're walking around with a multi coloured hand the size of a pumpkin, he
said it was because the wrist breaking had been traumatic enough to bring me
out of my mind. You know, I don't like the way adhd is described
everywhere, it explains nothing. For me the meds changed TIME AND SPACE. Anyone
else feel this way?
I think the social stigma
avoidance phase is a very very very if not universal reaction to every
ADer or parent of ADer or sibling or relative or friend...
However, once your confidence is secure, I recommend a SHOUT to the world, saying WHY did you let me suffer sooooooooo long?!!!!
The more trails we pioneer today as ADDers, they more highways will emerge for our ADDer offspring in the future.
They will not have to fight the same wars of revolution, independence,
civil, and otherwise, b/c their AD/HD forefathers, fourscore and twenty
years and more ago, before them suffered the indignities, the
struggles, the PAIN of taxation without representation, were WOUNDed,
DIED, and were Buried, in order for their freedom to express their
AD/HD in a harnessed effective unbelievably productive manner, without
experiencing the BRUTAL frustrations our generation has...
Hey, I sound like a revolutionary...
Hey chJonesy, mebe I should studied stalin...
yuck. murderer. after hitler, the French should'a marched East to
Moscow (instead they went to Viet Nam). Hey, imagine a history where
after the conquest of hitler's Germany, we formed NATO, enlisted
Germany as an ally, and marched East to free the great Russian spirit?
terrie, I could daydream a/b that!
We were too battered, though. America never finishes it's wars properly. Wanta get rich? Declare war on America...
Now I'm ranting... sorry
We need to unite as a global community, act as family, well maybe not.
We fight alot. Act as .... what? What in community doesn't conflict?
Well, then act as a globe, turn our eyes upward, and Worship God, the
Creator of black holes, and Holy Universes.
Any takers?
hahahahaha i can't believe you got to rant! i thought that was my sole
privilege!
stalin was right up there with amin dada and hitler --- it's the power you
see.
power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. they all turn to
the Dark Side (it is because they have no sense of humour, i swear... if
only they could stop for two seconds to see how ridiculous they are. (du
sublime au ridicule - il n'ya qu'un pas)
that is why it was possibly the WORST decision to re-jig the house of
Lords in the UK. it may have seemed defunct and aristocratic but it split
the power.... commons/lords/queen/judiciary. very important!
(hey america can benefit from war too --- the uk had to pay off its war
debts to america for yeeeaaaarrrs. we were still on rationing when you
were going through the great 50s wealth - not that i am complaining....
anything even complete bankruptcy was worth defeating HItler for, for
sure sure sure! so yay for defeating that miserable foul deluded
murderer which we would NEVER have done without America.)
do you know Stalin used to send out quotes to officials in various Russian
towns/villages. like this "i think you must have about 2,400 counter-
revolutionaries/whites/capitalist pigs etc. in your area"
and the local hoodlum enforcers would then round up say 2,756 random
people and shoot them! sending a message back "not only were there
2,400 we found an extra 356!!!!! for good measure. see how dedicated
we are!"
madness. utter madness.
not that it couldn't happen here or in England. if it can happen in
Germany, Italy, Russia etc. essentially it can happen anywhere. you just
need a leader who can instil both fear and love; twist a few things around
- and you can get people murdering their own in the name of some ideal,
patriotism and the common good....
suddenly everyone is looking out for themselves and informing on their
neighbour!
as long as you have a sense of humour and enjoy life - it can't work.
sense of humour is a saving grace. it brings perspective to many things.
i wish i had a better sense of humour. i could easily turn into a stalin or
hitler (just in terms of i take everything too seriously! rather than i want
to kill millions)....
a sense of humour eh? where can i find one of those then????????
we need to love one our neighbours as ourselves?
Matthew 22:35 Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a
question, tempting him, and saying,
36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy
heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38 This is the first and great commandment.
39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as
thyself.
40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
(boy how do i get where i end up at....???? this is my head fffffolks,
welcome to it. run, run, run as fast as you can... run for your life!)
this is it. i am stopping! i am off. chjones38610.5805555556
All I can say is that the same thing happened to me on Adderall. I was a different person. I thought in a different way. I got little things done. It was great.
Then after a year and a half it seemed to wear off for me. (my dr. had upped my dose about every 6 months or so because it seemed to be wearing off.) I remember the way it helped me and and it is frustrating to say the least when it didn't working anymore. I also had some side effects that really bugged me as the dosage went up.
I took a vacation from meds, tried some herbs - they worked great until 6 months later. I was going to go on Adderall again and went to a different doctor (my first had to retured due to medical problems) This dr. put me on Concerta - I felt depressed on it and it didn't really help me that I could see.
I am now trying exercises. The response wasn't as immediate, but I do see a difference.
I wish I could go back to those days of the first Adderall doses! What a difference. I know that the things I learned during that time period of change have changed me.
I hope Adderall keeps working for you.
ohhh, me no likey to hear that...but you did say the exercises help, I brought them up to my doc..he's so amusing, he loves playing devil's advocate. I like him cause he's not a med pusher, wants them to be used w/care and he's always saying you'll have to up it anyway to keep me low dose, he's worried maybe that what happened to you anni?
Jones, I waited a year and a half after my doc asked me if I wanted to try meds to try them..I had to wrap my mind around having adhd, I still can't get over that I had bought so many books for work and even created a small "ld, adhd library! lolol
Maybe you need more time. Also, for me it's pretty bad and I work out like crazy already, it was try the meds or keep sinking, I'm tired from all these years of acting and pretending, maybe you feel like you can handle your symptons by other means...if you have suppport why not? But if you are suffering..you may want to think about just trying them