Kind of figured by now
Feb. 19th, 2023 04:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
branchandrootCongratulations to me, I am now the proud possessor of an ADHD diagnosis.
Which I’d pretty much figured, after a dozen or so too many moments of “…wait a minute” while reading friends and acquaintances writing about their own experience of it. And after 50 years of living with it, I’ve got it just about as managed as it’s possible to be, but it’s nice to have my sense of myself confirmed, and also to have some help polishing a few coping mechanisms, and also to have something to take to my next doctor when I finally gird myself up to play pin-the-tail-on-the-medication with a scheduled substance, which frankly sounds like a special level of hell.
OTOH, everyone notes that that part gets way easier when you’ve got the meds, so.
…still gonna give the saffron extract a go first.
Which I’d pretty much figured, after a dozen or so too many moments of “…wait a minute” while reading friends and acquaintances writing about their own experience of it. And after 50 years of living with it, I’ve got it just about as managed as it’s possible to be, but it’s nice to have my sense of myself confirmed, and also to have some help polishing a few coping mechanisms, and also to have something to take to my next doctor when I finally gird myself up to play pin-the-tail-on-the-medication with a scheduled substance, which frankly sounds like a special level of hell.
OTOH, everyone notes that that part gets way easier when you’ve got the meds, so.
…still gonna give the saffron extract a go first.
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Date: 2023-02-19 10:13 pm (UTC)If you've tried caffeine, you can possibly wave that in front of the doctor as the first medication that's failed you, and if you've had wellbutrin/bupropion, that's the one they tried me on first and second. (Worked wonders for my depression! After the first year, did jack shit for the ADHD.)
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Date: 2023-02-20 08:40 pm (UTC)