I am going to my primary physician tomorrow to find out if I do in fact have A.D.D. as I have been suspecting for years. I don't know whether they are going to test me for A.D.D. or write me a referral me to someone else. Either way, what does testing involve? Do they just ask you a bunch of questions. I am clueless, since I have never been tested.:confused:

Get ready to jump through a million hoops. Depending on your age, you will have to go see a specialist (psychiatrist or therapist) to conduct the tests, and that takes a while. I thought I would go to my primary doc, tell him my symptoms, and he would write a script for adderall. SOOOO not the case. He reffered me to a PhD therapist who robbed me blind because she wasn't on my plan and I got a measly $30 back from almost $1000 I paid her to test me. Of course it was drawn out and she wanted to talk and talk and talk. She gave me 3 survey type tests and one computer test that eventually showed I had some level of ADD, and she asked my primary to prescribe wellbutrin, not adderall. so i've been on that for a while, stopped seeing her, and since started a new psychiatrist. in my experience, save your time and money and go right to a psychiatrist who can prescribe meds. primary docs don't like to write adderall scripts for audit reasons. it seems though that if you are a child they will write scripts for adderall with no hesitation. hmmm... good luck!

I have sympathy for you Americans. It seems to me that the whole "drug" paranoia of America really gets in the way of Doctors just being able to do their job the way they feel they should do it. All this testing makes getting help prohibitive for you guys since, if you know you are going to have pay and pay and pay to get treatment, it makes it less likely that you will seek help.

My doctor, whom I consider very professional, and has known me my entire life, just wrote me a prescription for Ritalin on the spot when I told him what was going on with me, and my history. He said that as an adult you know what is going on with yourself and endless testing won't reveal anything new. In the end you will just wind up with a prescription for one of a very limited pool of medication, so here you go, test it out on yourself, you will know very quickly if this is of benefit or not. If not, we'll move onto plan B...

No doubt some benefit from testing, and as my doctor said, testing is a necessity for children, but it seems to me that such a hostile process doesn't benefit the patient.

Anyway, just a rambling thought. Good luck to you.