PaperDolls

I just started this drug about a week ago. Just wondered if anyone is familiar with it and what your experience is. I think it's pretty new.

Just curious. I haven't noticed any negative or positive side effects yet myself.

Jerzy007

Have you tried anyother medications for ADHD, and how did they work. Did you notice a difference in your thinking?

Jerzy007

I ask because im waiting to get treated myself and have never heard of that medication, is it similar to adderral, ritalin, and those types or is it more like STraterra?

Done_With_It

I just read about a new one, I'll get the name of it, I think that may be it.
I havent' tried it yet though.

Justme57

Hello Miss Done!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry , just had to drop in and say "Hi" when I saw your name

Hows things with you girl?

HUGX
Leigh

PaperDolls

This is the first ADHD med I've ever been on. I can't tell if it's working or not.

I told my pdoc I thought it might be hard for me to tell. I've been "this way" all my life. You know what I mean?

I think I do notice better concentration. It's not like, "holy cow! where has this med been all my life?" but I think it's good. I have noticed a decrease in my appetite and dry mouth.

I've done searches on it and everything I find talks about children on it. Nothing about adults. I don't know if there's a big difference but still.....doesn't seem to be much info out there.

If I remember right, my pdoc said it's different than adderral but I don't remember in what way.

Alive

I am confident you will find a med that will work for you hun, whether it's this one or another i feel it's soon..

You know Vivance in french means The Living?.....

yeah my friend...

barb dwyer

hi PD -

I was on mediction for YEARS for this condition.

I haven't heard of this one, but if it's like the others, it takes longer than a week to get it going. Brain chems are slower in getting turned around.

I took strattera - nothing. Ritalin - nothing. Wellbutrin - nothing. The only thing that worked and probably will still work for me is dextrostat. And it took the max for that. But when I was on it - I ran a successful studio, and man it was something else.

I talked to the doc about waiting to get started on the 'search' again... I want to be comfortably off smokes first. stimulant therapy was the ONLY thing that helped me.

One problem at a time.

Good luck to ya - I'd like to hear how it works for you!

shutterbug

barb: i'm curious...what kind of studio? paintings? music? dance?

barb dwyer

hi shutterbug -


drawings, paintings, and I have a bad habit .... of painting bones. Then doing strange arrangements with boned and feathers.
I had a fairly successful business up here a few years back ...
downtown space and all that ....had accounts with two interior designers ...
stuff in galleries frm mt to tx....

sounds official but what it boiled down to was -
(designer calls)
'hey, we got this big wall ... that kind of house ... this motif - what can you do? "
and I'd say 'this'
and they'd say ... 'ok'
and I'd say 'this much'
and they'd say, no problem'.

and Id have it ready.

without the meds -
I can't be relied on to have it ready.
I can't complete.
In five years - off meds and drinking -
I did one drawing.
ONE.
And I only finsihed it - when I sobered up.

barb dwyer

I'm sorry PD - unintentional hijack.

PaperDolls

hey, it's ok...........it's you and jenna. I can handle that.

I'll update on my ADHD med progess when I know something. I can't decide yet if it's done anything. I need to ask C what she thinks......if she's noticed any changes.

I've been unusually busy at work for the last two weeks so it's hard to gauge when I don't have a "normal" day. When I get crazy busy like I've been I tend to be on sort of a high.

So yeah......hijack away girls!

PaperDolls

Still on the Vyvance and I still don't know if it's doing anything for me. I just can't tell.

It's time for a follow up with the pdoc so I'm sure we'll talk about it.

Morning Glory

Is this medication addictive PaperDolls?

My son struggles with ADHD and was asking about medication. I am not familiar with the new medication for ADHD.

barb dwyer

hey PD - I was wondering about an update to this as well.... almost that time for me.

thank EWE !!!!! LOL

Morning Glory - how old is your son?
When My own sons were diagnosed - I was about to make quite a difference with 'sugar control'.

That is - Until they figured out they could get all the sugar they wanted .. at the neighbor's and at grandma's.

but it DID make a difference right off the bat -
when I could control it.

they were ... ten and twelve, I'm thinking.

PaperDolls

MG -- this is a fairly new adhd drug and I think, like anything, pretty much it can be addictive but If I remember right this one has less of a chace of becoming addictive.

My doc was alcohol but I've liked me some pills and honestly, this one does nothing for me so I can't imagine abusing it. I suppose if someone took more than the recommended does that might change things but........if you are interested in it, most of the info I found on it pertains to children with adhd. Do a google search for Vyvance and you'll find it. I wish you're soon good luck.

Morning Glory

Thank you!

My son is 34 now and was diagnosed as a child. We tried Ritalin and it didn't do much so I took him off of it after a year.

I hope this works for you. ADHD can make you feel miserable.

Done_With_It

I have it was diagnosed w/it, but my new doctor told me I don't cause if I didn't I would have been in special ed classes when I was a kid.

It sucks..

PaperDolls

You're welcome MG -- I'm 32 btw so you're son and I are close in age.

barb dwyer

It makes the world a confusing place -
you wonder what everyone is always so upset with you about.
or-
You enjoy what you are able to 'hear' of a conversation -
(while popping in and out)
and you wonder what you missed ....

and perhaps it could have been important?