Glenna9802

...and speeding his a$$ off. Well of course he is, it's an amphetamine. He's totally high, talking a mile a minute (all about himself), doesn't even hear what anyone else says and has serious delusions of grandeur. He's also drinking his usual on top of it. Nice combo.

I'm going to call my sponsor and try to see her over the weekend. Then I have a meeting on Sunday night. I also want to get the books she suggested this morning. So AH is on his own...I have work to do.

Oh yeah, and gonna get the patch today and stop smoking

timetogo

Wow Glenna -- it sounds like you are doing great -- you know what you have to do for yourself to work on yourself. Keep doing that!

Good luck with the smoking bit. Let me know how the patch goes. I NEED to quit the horrible habit as well -- I hate it.

blessed4x

It's too bad they didn't go with Strattera, or one of the non-amphetamine meds. There is a correlation between ADD/ADHD and addictons, but if he is responding to the amphetamine by "speeding" then likely he doesn't have it.

My 16 year old son and I both have ADD (he has ADHD) and we have both been on concerta (a long acting amphetamine) and I can tell you that the effects are nothing like what you described. It actually calms and helps focus. I think ADHD is WAY over-diagnosed, and for those of us that truly do have it there is now a stigma in taking the medications.

My high school aged son went from a 1.2 GPA to a 3.2 GPA in one semester a couple years ago and every single teacher called or emailed me to ask what had happened to him over Christmas break, because we didn't tell them (on purpose) that he was medicated. They all reported that he was much calmer and focused in class. Just wanted to let you know that there is a legitimate use for these medications. Unfortunately too often they are prescribed for the wrong reasons.

Bernadette

..I have work to do.

That's the spirit!!!!!!
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Barbara52

My experience with those who truly do have ADD or ADHD tells me they do not repond this way to ADD/ADHD drugs.

Daisy30

I agree. Sounds like a a possible misdiagnosis?

Glad to hear you are working on you

justtired

Either that or he's taking too much. I know someone who has ADHD and when he was taking his meds correctly, it really helped him. But at first, he must have had a little misunderstanding with his doctor regarding how to take them (he's not an addict) and took too much. He was VERY SPEEDY that day.

Barbara52

My experience with by son tells me that diagnosis with ADD/ADHD takes considerable time (weeks actually with input from those close to the patient). No doc worth their degree is going to make such a diagnosis instantaneously on the word of the patient. Sounds like drug seeking behavior and a very cooperative doctor to me.

blessed4x

I knew from the time my son was a toddler that something was different......first clue was finding him on top of the fridge at 18 months old! We tried many approaches, including organizational training, special diets, natural supplements, and tutoring. When it finally caught up with him and became too much for him to succeed in school then we tried meds. Barbara is 100% correct. With both him and I medication was a final choice, not something we ever would have considered going to a doctor on a whim and getting. I personally, would be a little leary of a physician that would hand over a prescription for a controlled substance that easily.