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1. Twisted Tranquility

   2009 Aug 24 1

   Why don’t you just call your doctor and ask?
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2. Bender B.

   2009 Aug 24 2

   u dont have anything of the sort. add is a made up disease by psychologists and drug companies to make money off medication. JUST GET A DAMN GRIP OF YOURSELF!

   thats how the non medicated world handles their problems

   in addition: some shrink diagnosed me with add in my teens. i refused to have any pills shoved down my throat and i did get a grip of myself. now i have a bachelors degree in engineering and never had a problem since. its all in the head. u gotta be strong!
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3. rme147

   2009 Aug 24 3

   Wow… don’t you just LOVE how helpful and considerate some people are? Jeez folks!

   Well, I struggled my whole life with issues focusing, and completing tasks and remembering things. Finally, when I was a junior in high school, my parent’s took me to a psychologist who gave me the same news. I have ADD. What people don’t understand is that ADD or ADHD is a CHEMICAL IMBALANCE and medications for the condition make up for those unbalanced chemicals.

   My doctor put me on a medication called Concerta. Concerta has completely changed my life! Ritalin just made me feel like I had 17 shots of espresso and there is another medication called Stratera (which I have never used). Those are the most common one’s used for ADD/ADHD. I feel like I’m a "normal person". i was always the one falling behind and forgetting to do things, never finishing things I started… now I do it all and don’t even realize it until the end of the day and I’ve gotten SO MUCH done! I would ask your Doctor about Concerta and/or Stratera. I hope this helps.
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4. Ralph

   2009 Aug 24 4

   First of all, the guy that told you to get a grip is way off base. I am an adult with ADD and medication made a substantial improvement to my quality of life.

   As to which medication is the most effective, that can vary from person to person. You may have to try a couple before you get it right. I was lucky and hit it right pretty quickly. I took the old one adderol and not the new XR kind, I just take it a few times throughout the day, one full dose and two smaller half doses 5hrs apart. it seems to work well for me. It calms me down and helps keep off the bounce back depression that I would sometimes initially get. It also did away with the "buzzing" feeling I had in my head a lot of the times. I’m not a doctor though, so my advice is only anecdotal. Again, talk to your doctor and let him/her know everything that is happening.
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