Posted by yesac on July 25, 2003, at 10:51:45
In reply to Re: ADD » yesac, posted by whiterabbit on July 24, 2003, at 17:58:51
My subtype results were: highly probably for Limbic System hyperactivity, and probably for inattentive and basal ganglia. The three others said not probable. I feel like with the inattentive, I definitely can be "inattentive" you know with concentration and paying attention in general, but I am far from "couch potato" and always have been. I'm much more fidgety and can't sit still kind of thing (for example, right at this moment I am shaking my foot quite vigorously!), and I can't really stand inactivity - not to say that I am just SO energetic or anything like that. I just like to get out and get going and feel like I've accomplished stuff with my day. I don't like waiting around and wasting time. But anyway, as for inattentive, my mind also wanders a lot when I'm bored with an activity I'm trying to do, but I wouldn't say that I am usually particularly spaced out exactly.
Anyways, on the www.psychcentral.com/addquiz.htm (I hope that forms a link!), it broke it down into a point system, 35-49 is mild ADD, 50-69 is moderate ADD, and 70+ is full-blown ADD. I got 50.
I feel disappointed right now because I've been on Parnate for over 6 weeks, and supposedly according to my doctor and others on the med board, MAOIs are often SO GREAT (!) for people who have failed all this other stuff, like I have. But I'm not really noticing anything. Maybe I'm just being impatient and I need to keep going with it for at least another month or two, but it's just so disheartening to try drug after drug, go up and up on doses, spend several months waiting for something to happen, and finally determining that nothing is going to happen. It sucks, quite frankly. How long did it take for you to find the right meds?
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