Posted by stargazer2 on October 20, 2008, at 18:47:42
In reply to Re: Nardil and the f-its... » stargazer2, posted by Phillipa on October 19, 2008, at 18:19:29
You know, It was never brought up before and as a child it's hard to remember how my concentration was, but there was time where I thought I was dyslexic and I could never concentrate or read and remember anything.
I usually do not finish projects I start, today never finish books I start and do have trouble concentrating. I guess because I'm not of the hyperactive type, but of the inattentive type that little was done or even thought was abnormal
back then. My doctor never even thought I had it until I read some about it over the past few years. The focus was always on deprssion, never anything else.I know that when I take a stimulant I do not get hyperactive, just more focused and thatis when I started thinking about ADD, as a part of my depression.
It's too bad that this went a good number of years before I could put my finget on it as a compnent of the depression,but I astill think that perhaps untreated ADD has caused me to be depressed,orethan the other way around. This still needsto be fully tested.
Right now, my doc still wants me to stay on Nardil and the low dose of Adderall, which I have taken for several months pretty routinely on the days I work. And my deprssion has stayed at bay on this combo.
The only other thing I want to try would be taking Adderall XR alone, but I'm too afraid to stop Nardil,right now, for fear of depression returning. My depression makes me pretty much non functional and sometimes suicidal.
My doc said we could try this after I have been at my current job for a year, knowing the risk of relapsing, but he did not want me to do that right now and I agreed with him. I do not want to risk that since before my current job, I was unable to work for over a year.
SG
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