What vitamins and/or supplements do you take to help manage AD/HD?


Do you take them in addition to traditional AD/HD medication or without AD/HD Medication?

I'm not taking any right now with my Strattera, but am seriously considering taking supplements. I'll be watching this board closely for suggestions.

Well since I asked the question I will also anwer it.

I currently take:

Omega-3 Fish oil -2000 mg
Evening Primrose Oil - 500 mg
Grape Seed Extract -100mg
Vitamin E - 400 I.U.
Multivitamin (taking prenatal vitamins in hopes to soon become pregnant)


This is pretty much what is suggested for ADDults at http://borntoexplore.org/nutrition.htm

and...I have also done an extensive amount of research on my own

I don't currently take any AD/HD medication. I haven't in few years. If I wasn't planning on starting a family in the near future, I may have considered trying medication again.

I also added a Vitamin B supplement to my "cocktail" and I think it's really helping.

I do some working out so I just have a whey protein shake at breakfast with three ginseng and some frozen spinach from iron. other than that all vitamins come from fruits and veggies. for a while I was a big vitamin junkie but I prefer to get nutrients from foods. I eat a lot of fish and chicken with pork thrown in form time to time, most often in curry form...I make curry with lots of tomatoes, onions and red and green peppers and then throw in some sort of greens. I take ginko biloba from time to time...but for the most part, I find I prefer to eat a well balanced diet of all the food groups (although I must say, I have cut down on carbohydrates quite a bit...as soon as I eat too many carbohydrates I feel really tired...like Im going to pass out...I drink a lot of milk as well)...anyway...I find the ginseng does help with the depression I feel when the ritalin wears off...I wouldnt mind taking flax seed oil again, but you can just as easily buy some flax seed...its probably better...it goes great in a lot of dishes...

or is it vitamin D thats in spinach....cant remember....I do take multi vitamins sometimes...more in the winter when vegtables are harder to come by fresh

I'm interested in the Omega 3, as that has a wide variety of healthful impact. What form do you take the supplement? Is it expensive? Do you need to refrigerate the supplement? I remember looking into flax seed oil and seeing that it was very expensive and had to be kept refrigerated.

Originally posted by missing_cues
or is it vitamin D thats in spinach....cant remember....I do take multi vitamins sometimes...more in the winter when vegtables are harder to come by fresh

Missing: Spinach is not a good source of vitamin D. And it is pretty good source of iron, however, it's bound...meaning it's not well absorbed. There's an ongoing joke in my nutrition classes at school...which goes..."Popeye should have died a long time ago"!!(because the iron in spinach is not available to the body)....

Best sources of iron: red meats, fish, chicken, broccolli (it IS available to body in broccolli), and baked potatoes with skin(is okay here too)

I take one thing, a liquid vitamin called Body Balance, and I think it is doing a very good job. No more pills. Some vitamins were so large they could be horse pills, and I did choke on some of them, literally. When I choke and have to hack a vitamin up and I'm crying because I nearly choked to death, guess what I do? I buy liquid vitamins!! lol

If anyone wants any, I like it so much I decided to become a seller of the vitamin, in order to offset my cost. For my family of 4, it is costing $100/month for all of us to have the right dose every day. That is the same amount or less than I have spent on the large variety of vitamins I have been collecting - I have everything!! And 1 and a half ounces a day liquid is easy and quick.

More importantly, I feel healthy on this vitamin and feel my strength and vitality re-emerging. It was never gone, just hiding for a while.

Jon

@ the moment, strattera/adhd,
temazepam/insomnia,
centrum silver multi,
650 mg ferus sulfate/anemia,
lovastatin/high cholesterol

Dex. for my ADD....

I take a multivitamin it's a stress formula...

I also take B mins complex supplement ......

These seem to help me with my PMS which makes my ADD feel worse.

I have taking for my PMS:

Evening Primrose Oil - 500 mg
Grape Seed Extract -100mg

I've tried Omega-3 Fish oil and felt very sick.... I have a seafood allergy.... I can't eat clams, scallops, lobster or crab.... I can eat fish !