moodyness/pms etc | ADHD Information

Hello! (Sorry about the writing errors, english is not my native language!)
This is my first time here, so hello everyone! I woul'd like some advice on medication. I was diagnosed for add a while ago, and I started to take Ritalin. The problem is, that I've been really angry and nervous during this medication. I have always had terrible pms, but now it's from hell... I nag and nag for my family all the time, I yell at my kids... Everyone just drives me nuts just by excisting! =( So I think that Ritalin is not the one for me. Do you have any comments on this, have you successfully changed your medication? Please, help me with this one... I was diagnosed faulsly diagnosed clinicly depressed, and I was on medication similar to Prozac. It helped me a lot with my moodyness, but I would like to have some sex every once in a while... ;)
So if you have experiences on this one, please share them with me.

Marcy, I have horrible pms and so does my poor daughter. I am now in my 4th week of pms as my body has decided to betray me and bite into the Adderall by preventing what usually makes the pms go away. I could win the lottery and not really care or feel good about it. Anger, rage, well I have dealt w/this for many years so I have learned to fake it quite well, just fake being "normal". If at all possible. And the Adderall does help a little.

 If someone in a movie theatre crackles packaging during the movie or talks I get peeved when not pmsing as it totally distracts me and I can't even watch the movie, when pmsing I want to go over and make them stop.  I've also had depression for many years, this stuff is all genetic you know, combined w/your childhood you can be set on a path that is light or dark...depending. Depression is awful, I know, but pms is a special kind of awful. It's like your nerve endings are raw. You have my empathy, I was a single parent and my pms make a stressful situation much worse. Do you talk to your kids at all about it, are they old enough? I would try the b"s as suggested, Udo's Oil and Evening Primrose. And intense exercise, that does help. I've only been back on the Adderall for five weeks and I have had 10 days where I have not been pmsing....this is not amusing
the sex thing..sex is good for pms too, lots is better as long as the sex is good! Bad sex is bad for pms.

prozzac or paxil are the same only paxil is an updated more calmer version...both have terible sexual side effects.... i tried effexor, which i had no probs with sex whle onit but it gave me such cotton mouth it was horrible....which is a side effect...it effects everyone differently....was on zoloft and loved for the first two months then it did nothing for me other than stomache pains.....so now i am back on prozac which gives me no sex drive....which hubby doesnt like but he likes my mood alot better...

other than that i have nothing else adhd meds vary and it is a trial and error based on each individual person i am on ritilin adn it works for me too....but i would see your dr and share your concerns..

That's strange..

I have suffered PMS ever since my first um "visit".  However, last month I realized I had NO PMS whatsoever!  For me the methyphenidate acts kindof as mood stabilizer in addition to the ADD symptoms..

funny how we react differently to the same meds.

sherry

go to another dr.. get another diagnosis and change meds... Try adding B complex liquid at Walmart it helps with moodyness which is caused by lack of this supplement which alot of us lack in our diet. It can be eaten in dark Vegs also. Referred by my wife.

but I would like to have some sex every once in a while, too! (0-;

(my separated wife separated me from sex)

so now I'm involuntarily celibate

Marcy, Sometimes Ritalin can cause aggression.   I used to get the snot beat out of me by an 8 year old boy until the Dr. changed his meds.  His violence stopped with the Ritalin.  Forget what he takes now -  2 different meds for adhd

Tell the Dr. & try something new.

Marcy

The same thing has happened to me but instead of Ritalin I have been on Adderall XR and my irratibility was really bad, so my doctor put me on Risperdal I am now up to 2mg and it is doing wonders...Drawback..... it will make you a bit more hungry..

Serioiusly, b/c this is the morning, and the sun is shining.

Doc told me to take a rit tab @ 17:00 so I'm on it at home so i don't go chaos at home. I suppose it calms me down from one point of view, but more importantly it gives me enough of a focus at that critical decision point where a trigger would send me down a path of volcanic proportions, or up the narrow path of "what if" choices...

Now, I'm an adult, and kids may be different. I'm also male, and females may be different. For instance, I couldn't make a connection on the other thread btw my ADHD manifestations and PMS... well, I was serious long enough, wasn't I?