Morning’s | ADHD Information

Go back to sleep!  lol just kidding.  I'm a mess until they do -- how about setting an alarm about an hour before you normally wake up, take your pills, then go back to sleep.  When you wake up, they'll be kicking in. heidi,

 How can you fall back asleep? Once I am up, forget it. adhd seems to affect us like that
 

 David,

 We are all a mess at one point throughout the day. Some is mornings, some are late night. It is usually when medications are withdrawing and we are really vulnerable. Clonidine helps take edge off for me in the evenings and it helps with bedtime.

 The adderall is funky, sometimes it has great effect, sometimes it doesn't. I can't seem to keep an even keel on it, so I just live day by day.

best of luck

 If I was to get up just to take a pill I wouldn't go back to sleep, I have always slept 4 or 5 hours a night.

I'm on adderall also. some days it buzz's the hell out of me, then somedays I'm really mellow, it's just when I wake up I'm blahhhhhhhhh, for about 2 hrs before med's kick in.

aww well, I don't do it either -- my son wakes me up every day, varying times between 6am-8am.  I just kind of suffer til it kicks in :P

does anyone have problems in the morning before their med's kick in, if so any ideas?

 

                                                    Dave

Daveloyd38647.4828240741

hmmm, well, I havent had any problems in the am before meds kick in.

BUT, I have a routine that maybe keeps me from having any problems:

I wake up 1/2 hour earlier, sit in a quiet house watching TV with a few cups of coffee. I then go wake up my kids and get started with the day.

I actually don't take my meds until 1/2 hour before I leave for work. Maybe my ADD is pretty minor compaired to others.. I don't know.

Sherry