Posted by dbc on September 16, 2006, at 3:46:34
In reply to Re: What works on norepinephrine? possibly only ho » dbc, posted by Tomatheus on September 16, 2006, at 1:09:36
I've found amphetamines to be the most useful. Dextro-methylphendiate (focalin) may be useful in high doses but i cant comment since its much easier to get the state to pay for Adderall or Dexedrine.
While at first both myself and my doctor were kind of confused at the whole IADD thing, i've come to understand that only a very small percentage of people dont have mixed AD(H)D conditions. So a purely inattentive person makes up something like 4% of all ADD suffers. A purely inattenative male is basically like getting hit by lightning...they probably make up .5% of the demographic. Being dysthymic on top of this is sort of like getting hit by lightning twice and winning the lottery.
I've met one other person with my similar "condition" and he had almost the exact same story except it took his doctors 8 years to figure out what was wrong while it took me about a year of personal investigation and showing my doctors my research.
So yeah, when a doctor is faced with someone like me they dont know what the to do. But so far stimulants have left me depression free and semi functional. Where as without the meds i sleep large amounts of time, am fatigured, bored, life is rather grey and meaningless.
I realize this invites the response of "well no duh you're taking a stimulant of course it makes you undepressed". I've pushed my brain as far as it will go with SSRIs/SNRIs/NRIs, probably almost killed myself with the california rocket fuel cocktail and never got even close to this relief.
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