I was diagnosed with Adhd this year at the age of 39. For years I drank to slow my mind down so i could concentrate.Then I became an Alcoholic and through Rehab and counseling.I haven't had a drink in 7 years.After I quit drinking, I started having Panic Attacks, lots of Anxiety, Agorophobic behavior,and mind would be flying with thoughts and would not slow down. I have been on 10 different antidepressants in the past 7 years,and the side effects have actually almost ruined my life.I started getting depressed and would have horrible side effects with all of them.Was hospitalized once because thought I was dying the Panic Attacks were so bad.I was put on Cymbalta,which took the edge off for about a year and a half.still had occasional panic attack but really didn't show or feel much emotions.I about a year ago went to the Doctor because the Cymbalta quit working.The Doctor talked to me thoroughly, and listened to what I was going through and been feeling.She was very familiar with ADHD,and asked if I had ever been checked for ADHD. Come to find out the whole time,even through Psychiatrist was being misdiagnosed,and was the reason the antidepressants didn't work and had so many bad effects from them. I was prescribed Ritalin LA, and within a day I felt like a completely different person.My wife was telling a big difference,but then the weight loss started.I am slim guy who is 6'-1" and normally only weigh about 180.I quit taking the Ritalin and would just take Vistaril for Anxiety but wouldn't work. Went back to the Doctor,and was prescribed Adderal 10mg twice a day,Ativan 1mg once a day, and celexa at night.Needlesss to say the Celexa being same kind of antidepressants i had been taken with horrible side effects came back 100%.I called on-call nurse what was happening, and explained I was having to take more of the ativan than prescribed to deal with the side effects. She told me to stop all but the Ativan until Monday when I could see or talk to the Doctor. The on-call nurse made it out to the doctor that I called for another prescription of the Ativan,and look like i had abuse and taken all of it. Iwas just having to take 1mg usually 2x or 3x a day because of side effects.Doctor called Monday and said she wasn't gonna change my medication and I needed to go to Behavioral Health because she didn't want me to take an Ativan each day.She prescribed it to me for every day.My wife got upset and called and the Nurse explained how the online nurse made it sound,and was the reason she was sending me to behavioral health.When my wife explained i was needing something for the Nausea and throwing up and was not abusing hte medication.She still told her I need to go to Behavioral Health. So Have appointment with them in a week,but chose not to take the Celxa, and just take the Adderal and Ativan like she prescribed and in 2 days feeling 100% better.Now I have to go to another Therapist and explain myself again, and i was once put on kolonopin and had better effects than the Ativan. Sure the Therapist will try to get me to try another antidepressant for the Anxiety instaed of the Kolonopin/Ativan.But can't go through those side effects again.Any experiences like this and how did you get the doctor to understand no more antidepressants.They are a setback? >;)
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Hint: a pause for breath and a paragraph or two would have made it much easier to read.
Bottom line: I'm all too familiar with this, but I am reluctant to contradict an 'official' health position, though ultimately I would have hoped that your body is your own.
I have smoked for twenty years, because when I first had dope, for the first time in my life, my mind found a form of peace, so yet, it's familiar.
It's also tragic that the US (I'm UK) is doping its kids into submission because there brains are working faster than the 'slow' generation that's being left behind can handle. In my generation we were called 'gifted' - now they're being called ADHD - which do you think is more likely to encourage success in life?
You've got so many chemicals flying around I cannot begin to advise, nor do I wish to. You are, however, old enough that if you wish to take responsibility for your future, you can find another path, and yes, maybe I should give up smoking too, but still, it's one drug vs the cocktail you seem to be imbibing.
Imagine putting a racing driver in a hearse and telling him his boredom and frustration and ultra-fast mental state are abnormal, because a hearse only requires you to drive at 5mph and his brain is operating at 500mph - fast jet pilot strapped in a hearse.
True? Who knows - I'm certainly not going to cut open your head to figure it out. However you may be well advised to start learning a different truth, one that encompasses your experience, and has a lot of bearing on how you, other people, and the planet are going to evolve: the current 'disintegration' - War of Terror (sic), financial meltdown, global warming, internet revolution - are a transition, and the 'old' generation are simply not equipped to handle it.
You're supposed to be one of the ambassadors of the new: old enough to have experience, young enough to be 'modified' and running Windows 7, not DOS - hell - slide rules.
Start doing some research and living up to your potential, rather than down to other peoples expectations.
Bottom line: I'm all too familiar with this, but I am reluctant to contradict an 'official' health position, though ultimately I would have hoped that your body is your own.
I have smoked for twenty years, because when I first had dope, for the first time in my life, my mind found a form of peace, so yet, it's familiar.
It's also tragic that the US (I'm UK) is doping its kids into submission because there brains are working faster than the 'slow' generation that's being left behind can handle. In my generation we were called 'gifted' - now they're being called ADHD - which do you think is more likely to encourage success in life?
You've got so many chemicals flying around I cannot begin to advise, nor do I wish to. You are, however, old enough that if you wish to take responsibility for your future, you can find another path, and yes, maybe I should give up smoking too, but still, it's one drug vs the cocktail you seem to be imbibing.
Imagine putting a racing driver in a hearse and telling him his boredom and frustration and ultra-fast mental state are abnormal, because a hearse only requires you to drive at 5mph and his brain is operating at 500mph - fast jet pilot strapped in a hearse.
True? Who knows - I'm certainly not going to cut open your head to figure it out. However you may be well advised to start learning a different truth, one that encompasses your experience, and has a lot of bearing on how you, other people, and the planet are going to evolve: the current 'disintegration' - War of Terror (sic), financial meltdown, global warming, internet revolution - are a transition, and the 'old' generation are simply not equipped to handle it.
You're supposed to be one of the ambassadors of the new: old enough to have experience, young enough to be 'modified' and running Windows 7, not DOS - hell - slide rules.
Start doing some research and living up to your potential, rather than down to other peoples expectations.
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