i was really beginning to think that i was. i was found to have ADHD at the early age of 10. i'm now 31. was on lots of meds as a kid and teenager then when i hit 17 and got PG, i stopped all meds and have been off of them since.

i have days where i feel like i could blow up on the inside and not understand why, i don't have any "need" for intimacy with DH...not cause i don't love him, but just cause i don't i don't know...need to. he's never understood even 3 kids later it's hard for me to be intimate and let's talk about clutter....

i can't get anything done. i get half way on something and poof. i'm done, i've forgot what i was doing. this house has vomited on itsself so to speak but i'm just so overwhelmed by it all that i don't know where to start. i tried making a list, didn't work
last year i started crocheting again. i think i finished like 4 blankets. i have a half dozon just sitting needing to be done.
i can't seem to help my daughter with her math or most homework...i simply don't get it.
i was beginning to think that i was losing my mind. UNTIL....my mother made mention that she saw some things going on with me that i used to do as a child...like snapping at everybody for nothing, not staying on task....ect, ect...

i have put a call into the family dr. the lady up fromnt said he doesn't treat it...i told her who i was and that she needs to ask him for me...he lives next door to my grandparents and so i know that he will help me...i sure hope he will.
he had me on effexor and that was not helping...my obgyn took me off that and put me on welbutrin 300mg a day...helps with the depression but not the rest.
i'm just so glad that it not JUST ME!!! and that i found this forum by chance...no not by chance. it was fate.

lilreb:D

Isn't it great :D

I remember when I first started learn of something called ADD and then read a book about. I swear I cried though the whole book, all my life I was "different", misunderstood by family, friends, teachers. It was just nice to know I wasn't the only one.

((hugs))

Keep learning ;)

****last year i started crocheting again. i think i finished like 4 blankets. i have a half dozon just sitting needing to be done***

So do I !!! :D

well i have an appointment for the 29th of september...so i will have to hold on until then!!!

You can do !!! :)

quick question...where do you all get the avatars? i can't find any and the one i used to have was lost when the pc crashed.
lilreb

I google them

hey i really never thought of it but girl i have the exact same problem that you do. and i was also wondering sometimes to you never have the motivation to help out around the house please lilreb tell me what the doctor tells you. Cuase right now i am on effexor,depakote,and concerta. so help me too . :faint:

michelle,

all i know is that i can't seem to wrap my mind around what needs to be done. i am hoping that they will have a cancellation and i can get in sooner. but as soon as i know something i'll let you in on it
lisa

THank you I appericate it

and i know how you feel. I just sit there with this pile of work and do nothing cuz i don't know where to start

well, turns out i'm going to see a different dr tomorrow at 3:30. the other one called and needed to rescedule for sometime in oct. that was not going to work for me. so, i did a wedmd search of dr.'s who treat adult add and found only ONE. good thing he was on my insurance.

now, let's hope he helps me...
lilreb

Good luck with your appointment, lilreb. :)

I hear ya lilreb! I have three kids also and wow is it so much harder than I thought It would be. Not because of the whole mom thing, but because of the ADD. I am so glad that my first daughter in school, my second grader, listens and keeps me straight with her school stuff. Last year I went way down hill though and even was DX with bipolar. So now I am dealing with that first and I am not on anything that is helping with ADD. Today I feel like I can't think straight for 5 minutes or accomplish anything. Maybe it's my new meds. I am excited for you and your new meds. Hopefully they will help you out a lot. I know that wellbutrin has helped a lot of people. For ADD, Dexedrine worked best for me and at some point maybe I will get back on it.

God Bless,
Sunny

i went to the dr, yesterday. i'm still not sure if i even LIKE this crazy lil man..:eek: .but i will say that he was very honest and upfront about everything. had me answer like 4 pages of questions and such. and while i was doing that he left and saw other people. then he would come back. he refused for me to be on the adderall as of now. told me if i wanted speed to go to starbucks, we were going to work on my anger/rage and depression first. like i said, crazy lil man. i ws wishing that i had told my mom where i was going and for her to come with me....but no, i HAD to do it on my own. anyway, on one paper, he says,"and you ok? no tears? no, crying all the time? i said it's alot better now...he shows me the paper that i had filled out and said...that not true." i seem to have scored myself as moderate(with a score of 15) he said that is not acceptable. we want 0-5....make for a calmer mom. i did find out that i'm NOT bi-polar. another test...so, he said we are starting off with...

me continuing my 300 mg of wellbutrin and he added
10 mg of lexapro and 30 mg of something i have never heard of...cymbalta. i have to go back in 10 days and we will see how i feel. he told me that the cymbata will me me very sick to my "tummy" the first week. take it anyway.
that stuff knocked me off my botty last night. i was in bed before EIGHT! i will be taking that one much later at night...
so, like i said, i'm not sure i like him, be he did know what he was talking about even if he was strange. i'll give him a couple of months and go from there.
i can say that this morning, we had our first stress free morning ever....i was very well behaved even though i had one saying that they weren't going to school....and when i was fixing to drive off she was saying, i'm not staying....

i hope this helps.:)

lisa

Wellbutrin is wonderful for depression.I found out after being diagnosed and treated for ADD that my depression was caused by the ADD.I take Adderal xr now and I dont need anything else,which is really wonderful because I was taking Zoloft,Wellbutrin 300 and a myriad of others.Its much simpler now and Im very happy with my results from my Add med.I was the exact same way,as well as everyone else here.There is relief waiting in the wings,you just have to find the right one for you.Also,Idont take Wellbutrin with my med.It seemed uncomfortable,almost depressed me.Wierd hu?

hey thats good. So you knwo what i am proud of you. you are doing it. stick with it girl and i know it will help. Here is a big hug from me. You may need it you may not.