Hello,
I am still having trouble with auditory distractions, especially people talking. The problem is worse at work, I've been taking ADHD meds for 6 years and they only take the edge off...I still need earplugs and I'm getting kinda tired of sticking them in, then taking them off when someone taps me on the shoulder at my desk...and there's nothing I can do about this problem at meetings when people are talking at once...still kinda hard to filter out the noise.
Meds: Adderall XR 10 mg every morning around 6am
Adderall 5 mg around 9 am/ 5 mg around noon
I've been on a much higher dose of Adderall--and don't want to go back up..I've tried Straterra, Concerta and Ritalin....
Any suggestions?
"sounding off,"
lenwrite
Hi. I have the same kind of problem at my job, but the noise varies from customers to our products being used like vacuums,etc. I bring earplugs with me but it's hard to predict when there's going to be noise or if I really even need them. I can understand being tired of bringing them to work with you, it can be a pain.
A nice small comfy set of headphones, and some good music. Get yourself and iPod (0-0), or a simpler mp3 player (under 0) and you can have tons of nice audio programming (music, audio books) in a tiny little package that you can take anywhere.
I understand your point. I am distracted by other's conversations, especially if it is a lame conversation (complaining, sports talk, gossip, shopping, blah blah blah). The more lame the conversation, the less I can ignore it. At work, the best answer is headphones.
When I go to a restaurant I always ask for a booth, so I don't end up at a tiny table about 30 inches from one or two adjacent tiny tables where I'll get to hear the lame conversations going on a few feet away. If it's shop talk (facts and figures, account details, etc) I can usually ignore it. But if it's lame, I will be distracted by it. So I always try to avoid the distractions that I am well aware of.