Hypersensitivity to stimulus | ADHD Information
Mystral-
Since realizing that I have ADD, I've realized that extreme sensitivity has been the story of my life. Physical, chemical, emotional. It seems like I'm just about two to three times more sensitive on every level than a "normal" person. I don't dwell on it anymore, its just a fact. I feel strongly that this has a real upside to it though. For example, some landscape or weed, or experience that most people think is no big deal can move me to tears with its beauty. As a man this isn't really socially acceptabe of course, but I think my life has been very very enriched by this sensitivity. Of course its also a pain in the butt...for example if I drink one cup of coffee at 8 in the AM, I won't be able to sleep till 2 the next AM! I also tend to get my feelings hurt more easily (seemingly) than most. So yes, thats all to say I think its part of the package.
mystral26 im glad your medication is helping to ease these feelings
my son as all the things you said, smells makes him sick, clothes hurt him, and he walkes around with his hands on his ears because of the noise. he was dx few week back with aspergers
diagnosed and medicated i am still hyper sensative and hyper focused
its just the way we are
we can deal with it, we are stronger than most at dealing with 5 things at once.
Okay, here's a question that I've been wondering about. Before getting diagnosed and treated, I was getting so hyperstimulated by things around me that I felt pretty crazy. Noise was too intense, the smell of things in my restaurant was almost painful, (especially chocolate - we make espresso brownies every day and the smell was making me sick) and even my clothes and skin felt too sensitive. My doctor says she's never heard of that symptom - has anyone else felt it, heard about it? Since beginning Adderall (5 mgs twice daily) it's been a lot less intrusive. Thank you all; it's good to know we aren't alone. Yes, I did forget to mention in the original post that this kind of high awareness is a gift as well as a curse; it doesn't always fit with the mundane life outside our own perceptions, but we get to see things on levels that nobody else does.No doubt about it. Before I started Adderall I would hate to go to the store because if it was busy it would feel like I was getting electrocuted over and over again ever time someone would come around a corner or bump into me, or get to close. My wife would just tell me I was being impatient and now I know that it was just from being ADHD. Since I've been taking Adderall I don't have these issues.
I am 43 and have been on medication for about 2 weeks. I feel like I have been given a new lease in life!
[QUOTE=worldisround]rosies1,sounds like fear I read about after after an alleged UFO abduction. Of course u won't remember it.
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Ooooh..that explains a lot......LOL!! 
I guess I've never been a "super taster" of bitter taste, but I remember that when I started taking Ritalin I thought it tasted quite bitter if I didn't swallow it fast enough, but after a while I noticed that I no longer could taste it. (?) I've allso noticed that a lot of things, that are said to taste bitter, does not taste bitter at all. Actually the only thing i can remember that tasted vaguely bitter was a caugh syrup (wich didn't work much). Not even vomit tastes as bitter as it used to, it's just sour. (I know cause I've vomited a bit lately because of the severe caughing that whooping caugh causes; wich allso is the reason I recently tried the caugh syrup.)
I allso think that the way food tastes has changed somewhat too, since i started taking Ritalin. But I can't say exactly what it is (except for the missing bitter taste). (Even penicillin doesn't taste as foul as before(!!!), and I have even stopped smoking for a year now so my sense of smell and taste should be better than before I started taking meds. and still were smoking.
Anyone else who experienced changes in taste and/or smell perception, after starting with medicines?
Noise and Light are what get me. Driving at night is almost impossible as the other car lights bother my focusing on driving, if that makes sense? Noises that are quiet and get louder scare me to tears. Once while riding out checking cows in a pasture in The Middle of Nowhere, a helicopter went overhead but I could not see it. It scared me to death, I had to get off my horse and just stood there crying untill it was gone.
My friend laughed her ass off and we joke about it now but it scared me bad. Why? I have no idea. It was a helicopter for pete's sake! rosies1,sounds like fear I read about after after an alleged UFO abduction. Of course u won't remember it.
I'm sensitive to just about everything. I hate it !!
How about sensitive to heat? I think its a side effect from meds but I am always HOT.