Have you tried Ritalin? I have severe ADHD and it really helped me. A lot of docs are reluctant to prescribe it, and it's hardly cutting edge, but it is often very effective.
-Kalera
vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from Kalera Stratton :
]Have you tried Ritalin? I have severe ADHD and it really helped me. A ]lot of docs are reluctant to prescribe it, and it's hardly cutting edge, ]but it is often very effective.
no - not yet. i'm trying to avoid meds and find other things that help. evidently, i've always had the problem - it just didn't interfere like it does now. and Ritalin is expensive.
Putting friends in the role of shrink is never a good idea -- for them, or for you. ~~ Sooz
Generic isn't so bad, and even though some people find it's not as effective as brand-name it always worked for me. One thing I found (and which I have heard from lots of others) is that using the medication helped me *learn* the coping techniques so that I don't have to use the medication. It was cool. I almost never take it now. Hey, are you on A.S.A-D.?
-Kalera
No. You have a support group.
Becki "In between the moon and you, the angels have a better view of the crumbling difference between wrong and right." -- Counting Crows
Kathy -- and there is the component that doctors always suggest that to cover up their own inability to solve a medical problem. They don't know what it is, and they are gods. Therefore, what is causing the problem is not in their arena. Most of the time they just haven't looked hard enough or long enough.
Sorry, my own rant. Doctors really piss me off.
Becki "In between the moon and you, the angels have a better view of the crumbling difference between wrong and right." -- Counting Crows
I too avoided the druf routine for a while. I was on Wellbutrin but that didn't help a lot. Effexor did - and then I lost my insurance. Haven't been to the doctor in a while to see if I can go back on it.
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 5:07:31 -0400, vj wrote (in message ):
No, it isn't. Well, maybe brand name Ritalin is expensive, but it has a generic, Methylphenidate, which is relatively cheap. A quick online price check says one hundred 20mg tablets costs $50.
When Manda took it, the ten and twenty mg tablets were almost identical in price (and they still are), and she was supposed to take
10 mg. at a time. I used to buy the 20 mg. tablets and bought a pill splitter - Ritalin tablets are scored, so you can't mess up.BTW, 100 tablets is far more than almost anyone would take in a month. For us, that was more than three months worth. So, we were talking about $15/month, or $0.50/day. That's not expensive for being able to think clearly.
You don't want to know what my prescriptions cost. $50/day would be a gross underestimate. I just checked, and the number shocked me. I could stay in a nice hotel for what I pay for my everday stuff - and we never have a month with just everyday stuff. Of course, without the meds, I wouldn't be in that fancy hotel for long. :-P If we didn't have insurance, I'd be toast.
Kathy N-V
That's it. Perfect. ~~ Sooz
A support group is something I think I'll enjoy more than a therapist - for now.
That's true. Pain causes Depression, eg, so using a psychologist (mental tactics) or psychiatrist (mental chemistry) should be, and often is, part of normal treatment for an ailment.
Tina
You can get both of these in generic now. The two together work pretty well for me as an antidepressant.
Stephanie
Stephanie
Yes they do but the combination put me on high blood pressure medication as well.
Oh, not so good then...
Stephanie
My combination is Wellbutrin and Serzone.
Tina
vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from Kalera Stratton :
]I'm such a dork... I meant alt.support.attn-deficit. It's a good ]newsgroup, or at least it was when I was active on it a few years back.
oh. DUH! no - i can't keep up with the four i have now!
That's what happened for me - the first therapist i tried was awful. I didn't stick with her very long. Tried again a few years later and got an absolute gem of a therapist.
Yeah, I've had to drop most of mine. I used to be on about six, but the only one I'm regular on now is this one.
They're a lot busier than they were for a long time, that's for sure. It's nice that people are coming back to Usenet though, I remember being sad when traffic declined so much in the 90's.
-Kalera
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