hi im new. im 13 and was dx with add innatentive when i was little. but not im really confused becasue i dont really think i have innatentive type, im not on meds and everyone tells me im really hyper and im impulsive and really random and i feel restless in class and doodle but i move a lot since my dads job makes us move a lot and when i dont know anyone i just zone out but when i know people i talk too much and blurt out stuff and constanntly wander aound the room. when i was small i was really active and impatient but in class i just daydream and draw. im good at sports like catching on quick but then get bored relly easily with everything, i interupt myself, but im not hyper in the mornings not until like 1 in the afternoon then i start getting hyper. cant follow when people talk, every creative, ive always been hopeless at waiting in any sort of line, way too impatient, love risk takig but in class i doodle and zone out, which i do out of class to but when i know people im hyper and when i dont i zone out, ive moved a lot of times. im not quiet but seem that way when i dont know anyone. at night i cant sleep and cant stop rolling around trying to get confortable, i go complete nights w/o sleeping but i never notice medicines working on me. i think the docto made a mistake dx me inattentive but i dont know if im hyper enough to be adhd either, is it possible to be mostly inatentive but also moderatly hyperacctive? was i missdiagnosed, or what?

There is a combined type of adhd.

I'm beginning to wonder if my daughter isn't the combined type ADHD she is very active but when she is forced to sit still during class, church, etc she completly zones out. Both of my children and myself can go days without sleep have you spoken to your parents about any natural remedies? Yoga has worked wonders for our family, we also use aromatherapy there is a Walmart brand lotion and spray we use which costs us about $8.00 for the two together its a mix of lavendar and chamomille we spray our beds and take a hot bath and apply the lotion right before bed and it cuts our tossing in turning time a lot.

Teens have a lot to worry about nowadays more so then when I was a teen which I find hard to imagine but your school work seems harder, more homework, it seems there are more instances of bullying not to mention stress at home and moving around a lot. I'd work on finding ways to calm yourself down, use a stress ball, my son rolls his pencil between his hands when he gets fidgety, my daughter hasn't found her stress reliever yet but she is young yet.

Keep us updated and let us know what kinds of things you have tried.

Hugs,
Cherity

ooo i like the aromatherapy idea thanx. i feel less tired thoes days that i dont sleep at all though, its weird, when i do sleep some i feel really tired. i try to either play a movie or music to get to sleep, its hard though becasue it has to be interesting enought so i dont zone out but not exciting enough to keep me awake. i usually choose an old favorite cd, or an old favorite movie and just fall asleep watching that. or doing my hw, but that only works when i know i cant fall asleep becasue i have too much work to do then it will put me to sleep but if i know im using it to get to sleep it makes me less tired, it doesnt make sense!

veryrandom:

your self-description sounds a lot like me. not hyper in the mornings, get bored, zone one, risk taking in class (although now its at work, cause im at uni and have to take it seriously), and seeming quiet when i dont know anyone, but if i start talking.. you just cant shut me up!!

i laugh at nothing, jump around, i'll be walking down the street then studdenly decide to run, skip or gallop (untli i get some weird looks from passers by...)

im not just physically H, i'm also mentally hyperactive.. and emotionally too.

but im not solely huperactive, i also have the trouble concentrating, zoning out (some medical scientists call this the 'blink phenomenon of add'.).

so really, i know that 'im the combined type. im both inattentive and hyperactive, and not enough of one or the other to say i'm just one.

oh and i'm verbally hyperactive and inattentive. i will ramble on and on, then change subject, and then say "now what was i saying?"/
the other day i actually had someone say to me "wow you foget a lot dont you!"
haha

anyway ive forgotton my point... but did i say i also have trouble sleepiung? i always have.

favourite cd works good to get me to sleep. i need to buy a new discman though - ive had this one for 4 years and its great, but its going now. it now makes a high pitch noise when its playing a cd! :(

as for what to call myself.. sometimes i say i'm add, other times i say adhd. when it comes down to it....... if i really had to make a choice, i would say adhd - but it depends on the sort of person youre talking to. if i was going to be technical, i'd say combined type adhd - meaning in attentive, hyperactive, impulsive. all 3 major symptoms.

clear as mud.. right?

ADDitives, have you been diagnosed? becasue u do sound exaclty like me! im getting tested but im afraid theyr gonna say no you dont have any type of add becasue your too adhd to be add, but too not hyper to be adhd.

its like i know what it feels like to be adhd when im playing with everything in the room jumping from thing to thing every 2 seconds while everone just stares at me and im not even realizing it, and not actually seeing any of it, and i know what its like to be so absorbed in a day dream and feel slow moving and my brain feels foggy. like im automatically impulsive/hyper but then i just zone out and im not distruptive and then not getting out of my seat.

i also talk and i dont even know ive said anything outloud. like ill talk back to the teacher and only realize i said anything when i get sent to the office for making a rude comment.
i dont know if its possible to be diagonosed with add inatentive and moderatly or midly hyperactive, it seems possible since its 2 different parts of the brain? and my cd player is a couple years old and it keeps turning itself off for no reason, it doesnt make screaching noises though.

im combined type, kind of sucks. Your young, your fears of being told "your neather type" are kind of unfounded. Your proly combined type from what i've read. Like i said, your young, you have years to nail this, find workarounds, copeing methods, the right meds, etc.

ADDitives, have you been diagnosed? becasue u do sound exaclty like me! im getting tested but im afraid theyr gonna say no you dont have any type of add becasue your too adhd to be add, but too not hyper to be adhd.

its like i know what it feels like to be adhd when im playing with everything in the room jumping from thing to thing every 2 seconds while everone just stares at me and im not even realizing it, and not actually seeing any of it, and i know what its like to be so absorbed in a day dream and feel slow moving and my brain feels foggy. like im automatically impulsive/hyper but then i just zone out and im not distruptive and then not getting out of my seat.

i also talk and i dont even know ive said anything outloud. like ill talk back to the teacher and only realize i said anything when i get sent to the office for making a rude comment.
i dont know if its possible to be diagonosed with add inatentive and moderatly or midly hyperactive, it seems possible since its 2 different parts of the brain? and my cd player is a couple years old and it keeps turning itself off for no reason, it doesnt make screaching noises though.
no i havent been tested, but i';m going to be in a few weeks.

i know this anyway.

and the combined type is an actual genuine kind. nobody fits exactly into a set box of criteria. there are actually about 6 or 7 subtypes of adhd (see brainplace.com i think, and there will be ones youve never heard of!).

and i can definately understand the saying something and i dont even realise i've said anything - i do it all the time and always have.