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Masey posted:I'm trying to help a friend get diagnosed online he lives in an incredibly rural part of IL, USA. Was hoping anyone had any services they've used/someone they know have used to help them get diagnosed & treatment? I was very fortunate in having a specialist locally for adult ADHD/ADD/Autism in Women so my path looks very different than his likely will and a lot of the resources I originally looked at a few years ago seem to be missing now? (He is uninsured but can afford to a degree). So I've done the research and most of these services suck rear end to being sometimes okay at best. Not worth the risk, just going to have to deal with drive times and all that fun stuff.
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Going to see the uni doctor about getting back on  tomorrow! 
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Feb 7, 2023 23:26
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Adderall and modafnil are prescribed together right?
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FirstnameLastname posted:Adderall and modafnil are prescribed together right? I've been on Adderall two different times and never had that drug prescribed with it.
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How much of an obvious effect are ADHD meds supposed to be? Should I obviously feel different? I feel like I don't notice much, but my wife swears up and down they help me when I take them. So maybe they work and I suck as self-assessing. Or maybe another med/higher dose would satisfy us both? Idk.
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Feb 26, 2023 15:04
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Having been on some form of ADHD, bipolar, and anxiety meds since age 8 my opinion is that the best meds are ones you only notice when you don’t take them. Like, when I take my ADHD meds I don’t notice, but when I don’t I’ll be like “oh, it’s 11 am and I haven’t done any work this morning, I’ve been reading the internet for 3 hours, i forgot my Adderall.” On the flip side I recently had to switch from Adderall to Ritalin because of the shortage and for the first two weeks when my dosage was too high I had absolutely crushing, paralyzing anxiety. We dropped all the dosages by 10mg and now I don’t notice it, I just get things done. Riven fucked around with this message at 15:39 on Feb 26, 2023 |
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Feb 26, 2023 15:33
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The effect of Ritalin is pretty noticeable to me, in terms of starting new tasks promptly and staying in task. I imagine that varies a lot person to person. Also trying a different dose is not a bad idea when you're on a new med. Maybe you do need a higher dose.
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Feb 26, 2023 19:29
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Zurtilik posted:How much of an obvious effect are ADHD meds supposed to be? Should I obviously feel different? I feel like I don't notice much, but my wife swears up and down they help me when I take them. So maybe they work and I suck as self-assessing. Or maybe another med/higher dose would satisfy us both? Idk. Personally speaking I notice but it's good that your wife notices a difference. I'd talk to your psych about trying a higher dose to see if you notice, when I was dialing in it on Adderal it went "okay I feel different, I'm noticing an effect, it's working but not as much as it could, theeeere we go."
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Feb 26, 2023 20:33
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Yeah totally, I don’t want to imply you shouldn’t experiment to find the perfect dose. Generally the way these things go is you ramp up until it’s unpleasant and then you knock a dosage level off and that’s your dose.
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Feb 27, 2023 15:34
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Fun tip for all involved: don't accidentally take twice your dose for two days running, it's not ideal. (I started out on 18mg Delmosart (methylphenidate) and then moved up to 36mg which hit the sweet spot, I still had a bunch of 18mg tablets left so I just took two. when I ran out of those, I forgot to stop taking two, putting me at a total of 72mg, which is over the maximum you can be prescribed in the UK!)
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Mar 1, 2023 10:15
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Lol I'm just discovering a whole nother ADHD thread, hi guys
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bagmonkey posted:Lol I'm just discovering a whole nother ADHD thread, hi guys Is there anything more ADHD than two completely separate threads in different places that people forget completely about half the time? 
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Quorum posted:Is there anything more ADHD than two completely separate threads in different places that people forget completely about half the time? A hyperfocus project to merge them together that no one asked for
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Car Hater posted:A hyperfocus project to merge them together that no one asked for Time for ADHD subforum
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bagmonkey posted:Time for ADHD subforum A hundred threads, and all their OPs stuck at 80% complete -- forever. Anyway, I tossed this into the other thread, but someone might find it helpful here too: I took a few book photos of organisation tips for young ADHD kids and their bedrooms.
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coolusername posted:A hundred threads, and all their OPs stuck at 80% complete -- forever. I have this book and it's good poo poo* *much of which I have not implemented yet 
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Xand_Man posted:I have this book and it's good poo poo* Yeah, I got a book on sale, "Overcoming Procrastination". Never got around to finishing it. it'd be funnier if it wasn't true
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Mar 13, 2023 18:18
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Anyone else have that thing where you're in the middle of a thought and then your brain just goes blank randomly and you can't even remember what you were thinking about? Or is it just me?
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coolusername posted:A hundred threads, and all their OPs stuck at 80% complete -- forever. That’s some great poo poo, what’s the book called?
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BigBallChunkyTime posted:Anyone else have that thing where you're in the middle of a thought and then your brain just goes blank randomly and you can't even remember what you were thinking about? Or is it just me? Yep. Had it happen answering a question at a panel, even. Welcome to my brain, audience.
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Love to lock up at big presentations!
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Solkanar512 posted:That’s some great poo poo, what’s the book called? I think it's Organizing for people with adhd by Susan Pinsky
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Zurtilik posted:Love to lock up at big presentations! That happened to Elon Musk a year or two ago at a major press event for SpaceX. Literally the first question asked by a reporter. He’s like, I’m sorry I completely zoned out, what was your question?
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My spouse got tired of me and my mother never looking for food properly, so she moved all the condiments to the fridge drawers and put the food on the outer shelves where it is highly visible. This has so far worked very well and I am wasting a good deal less cheese and fruit that was previously in the drawers where it got forgotten.
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AtomikKrab posted:My spouse got tired of me and my mother never looking for food properly, so she moved all the condiments to the fridge drawers and put the food on the outer shelves where it is highly visible. This has so far worked very well and I am wasting a good deal less cheese and fruit that was previously in the drawers where it got forgotten. That reminds me I need to buy a magnetic erasable thing for my fridge so lady bagmo can write all of the leftovers we have in the fridge
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bagmonkey posted:That reminds me I need to buy a magnetic erasable thing for my fridge so lady bagmo can write all of the leftovers we have in the fridge There's also peel 'n stick dry erase surfaces, if you're interested. My husband and I got a big one (I think it was Post-It brand. From Staples? Maybe?) and cut it up so we could stick half on one of our kitchen cupboards and the other on the downstairs fridge. This was one of the best things we've done. Cupboard door is for To Do things around the house and messages to each other for daily tasks or items for the grocery list. Downstairs is for whatever leftovers are stored in the fridge. We're actually getting more stuff communicated and done, and our food waste is reduced a bit more. I mean, I still forget about all sorts of stuff in the fridges so it's a work in progress but better than it used to be. Highly recommend adding a magnetic caddy for dry eraser and markers. Other thing that I discovered recently: there's an app called KitchenPal that lets you scan barcodes on foodstuffs to track what you have in your pantry/fridge. They pull info from the USDA food lists so often your item is already existing in the database. If not, it's pretty easy to add in. You can track multiples of stuff and it's even got a built in grocery list. Suddenly I'm not going into the pantry and discovering that I have five bottles of ketchup because I keep forgetting if I have any and just buy another one. Best purchase of December 2021 was a giant rear end 2022 Mother Word family calendar. Cutesy teddy bear families in cheerful colors to constantly draw my eye combined with day planner stickers that match all the various bills and birthdays and stuff. We've got it hanging in the kitchen by the door we use most frequently and I absolutely mean it when I say that it has been a game changer. Bills are paid on time, I'm actually remembering birthdays, the garbage goes out for pick up on time. And I get to play with stickers! I bought another one for this year, bought one for my sister too.
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bagmonkey posted:That reminds me I need to buy a magnetic erasable thing for my fridge so lady bagmo can write all of the leftovers we have in the fridge I started doing this with post-it notes for my partner. The post-it goes on the outside of the fridge and he removes it when he's eaten the meal. Normally, I remove them all at the end of the week but the post-it reminds him that there's food in the fridge or something.
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I’ve needed to become a lot more self-directed at work lately, and naturally it’s been a bit of a struggle. Even if I can hyperfocus for a few hours at a time, I have trouble extending that over a period of weeks. I’ve been on stimulant meds for about 15 years, and they definitely help me maintain a base level of functionality. But Im looking for some alternatives, because stimulants don’t do it all. I recently heard about clonodine being used for adhd. Anyone have experiences with it? I’ve tried co-dosing my daily 5-10mg of dexedrine with 40mg of straterra, but I can’t tell if it does anything.
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Head Bee Guy posted:I’ve needed to become a lot more self-directed at work lately, and naturally it’s been a bit of a struggle. Even if I can hyperfocus for a few hours at a time, I have trouble extending that over a period of weeks. I’ve been on stimulant meds for about 15 years, and they definitely help me maintain a base level of functionality. But Im looking for some alternatives, because stimulants don’t do it all. In my experience, strattera is extremely sensitive to the presence of citric acid in the intestine (maybe stomach also). So perhaps also check if you're eating or drinking anything containing that alongside your pill time (you're probably doing that anyway because of the bigger stimulant, but I gotta be sure! nothing ever mentions that it hits strattera too! and I find the QoL hit is way worse, too, like it makes me super irritable all day instead of just not working)
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Ayin posted:I don't know anything about the first one, but as for Strattera, I've never known it to affect my focus directly, but it does great things for my baseline anxiety level 😅 Do you want more basic stomach contents for straterra? I normally have a couple cups of coffee and some yogurt + granola for breakfast
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Head Bee Guy posted:Do you want more basic stomach contents for straterra? I normally have a couple cups of coffee and some yogurt + granola for breakfast I don’t find that citric acid impacts the effectiveness of Strattera but I do find the more I eat with it the less likely it is to make me nauseous.
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Head Bee Guy posted:Do you want more basic stomach contents for straterra? I normally have a couple cups of coffee and some yogurt + granola for breakfast Idk about base vs acid in general, but the effect is stark enough in my own experience that I'm pretty sure that I've identified the culprit correctly. There aren't too many differing ingredients between decaff diet Dr Pepper and decaff diet Pepsi, except for citric acid I think the only possibility is in the unspecified "Natural Flavors" Arcsech posted:I don’t find that citric acid impacts the effectiveness of Strattera but I do find the more I eat with it the less likely it is to make me nauseous.  ), so I don't actually know if I rolled the nausea side-effect too.
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Doctors appointment today, will get ball rolling on ADHD investigation
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His Divine Shadow posted:Doctors appointment today, will get ball rolling on ADHD investigation If you're interested, there's an ADHD-specific thread in E&N that's made up of primarily ADHD-diagnosed posters and serves as a support network / sounding board / experience and knowledge share. Definitely recommend but I'm a bit biased since I post a lot over there lol
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