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Does anyone experience this? I am having symptoms so severe I just can't perform my normal daily work & its really REALLY boring right now. I am trying to sort things by date & file them. I just cannot do that boring task! Then I start squirming in my seat bad. Then after such frustration I stand up and stare off blankly like very tired. I almost want to cry. I cannot stand this task 8(Yes, sometimes I have things that need to be done and I just can't do them. It's like being brutally tortured.This is where the meds help me. I don't like the meds so I usually don't take them, but what I do is I try to schedule the boring stuff all together so I can take a pill and get it all done at once. Things that normally would take me all day in misery get done in minutes.
I don't know what else I'd even be able to try - my dr won't put me on stimulants at all because of my heart history. Can't say I blame her because I do still have a slight murmur and the occasional fluttery feeling in my chest.
Strattera IS actually officially available in Canada now, but I don't know if it would help me either. I guess I could bring it up with her.
But... today is only exactly 1 week on the wellbutrin, so I shouldn't be jumping to conclusions!
bcgirl197838457.4386921296I have wondered if there is a fluctuation to ADHD, if some days or weeks or months it is worse than others. I always seem to be really bad around this time of the year and for the life of me I can't figure out why.
There is so much going on in our body... it can't be in balance all the time... just think of PMS... major out of balance period...
I'm on top right now... still procrastinating, but can do more stuff that requires... perhaps it's because of the summer making it's entrance.... or perhaps it is because I am getting education to get a driver license... wich is very hard in denmark.. but, I am doing great.. and my educator praise me so much I can't get my arms down....!
[QUOTE=Taag Man]There is so much going on in our body... it can't be in balance all the time... just think of PMS... major out of balance period...
[/QUOTE]Uuuh... don't go there mister!
[QUOTE=bcgirl1978]Uuuh... don't go there mister!
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Oh yea, dangerous ground 
When I used to work and had boring jobs such as scanning documents, filing, etc., I would call this work 'meditating work,' because I could zone out and still get the work done even though I may have been hundreds of miles away doing anything else I wanted to be doing. It was like an R&R from my normal job duties. You know what I mean?[QUOTE=Reizende]Does anyone experience this? I am having symptoms so
severe I just can't perform my normal daily work & its really
REALLY boring right now. I am trying to sort things by date & file
them. I just cannot do that boring task! Then I start squirming in my
seat bad. Then after such frustration I stand up and stare off blankly
like very tired. I almost want to cry. I cannot stand this task
8([/QUOTE]Reizende, you just described my Monday to Friday daily routine. I HAVE on occasion locked myself in the bathroom and cried out of depression/frustration.
If these meds don't start working soon, I'm seriously going to have to start looking for a new job.
[QUOTE=GypsyWomyn]When I used to work and had boring jobs such as scanning documents, filing, etc., I would call this work 'meditating work,' because I could zone out and still get the work done even though I may have been hundreds of miles away doing anything else I wanted to be doing. It was like an R&R from my normal job duties. You know what I mean?[/QUOTE]
I miss my old filing and envelope stuffing job. I was able to zone out and be a million miles away and still accomplish my work. Now I have to be HERE and it sucks. It's way too hard, there's no way a boring mental task can compete with all the activity in my brain.
[QUOTE=bcgirl1978] If these meds don't start working soon, I'm seriously going to have to start looking for a new job.
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Have you considered trying a new med instead?
Actually Wellbutrin takes three to four weeks to work. Hang in there, bcgirl!!Totally!!! Just ask the HUGE stack of documents that need to be scanned and filed here at my work. It'd be torture for anyone...[QUOTE=JerBer]I have wondered if there is a fluctuation to ADHD, if some days or weeks or months it is worse than others. I always seem to be really bad around this time of the year and for the life of me I can't figure out why. [/QUOTE]
For me there are fluctuations depending on the season, JerBer. Allergy season started a short while ago, and if I don't move about physically doing daily chores or using my creativity in some way, then I can waste away hours robotically playing 'puter games and/or daydreaming.
I've also found a non-productive mental pattern when I don't eat the foods that make me feel alert, which are low-glycemic foods (have hypoglycemia).
Marlene 
I have had one of those days..one of those days where even though my office offered us a special treat (leaving early), I was 1. forced to tidy and clean up for office spring cleaning to leave early (and zoning out bad), and 2. after accomplishing such task with great mental stress, my lack of a car still made me arrive home at my normal time. And you know us folks LOVE extra free time to space out. I ended up back home at the same time anyway.
To the average person in an office this is no big deal at all..oh yeah boring filing, dusting, sorting & putting away. But for me...oh no...ahhhhhhh!! 8(