ADHD - help/advice?
BlueIced asked:
I’m 20 years old and although this question may seem a little, ‘im to old’ i’m still asking it.
Of course it started in my childhood, all the signs. My parents are a little old fashioned and didn’t realise the effect of ADHD growing up, without treatment. Sort of the brush it off, medication is only if you have an infection or..You get my point?
Now i’m 20 im understanding more how this has effected my life, To low grades to jumping to one job to the other.
Im never settled. Now I have a job,and its getting to the point where my ADHD is annoying me.I love my job but always am unsettled and always getting shouted at for my attention span and hyperness.
I would like to go to the doctor and see if he can recomend anything. Although im doubtful because i am 20, Its not that this ADHD has just come on, Its now that im understanding and wanting to do something about this.
Because im 20, Will something be done? or Brushed under the table filled with excuses.
Sorry its long thankyou
Thanks for the info, more needed if anyone has experience.
To be honest i feel somewhat bad, going to the doctors if i don’t have a leg hanging off me. LOL. I know its there job, maybe its my doctor whom im not comfy with. I remember getting my tonsils removed, Random. It took my doctors some what over 6 months and over 20 visits. They just seemed to give me meds which helped for a week then back to the same problem.
I will make an appointment;
I’m 20 years old and although this question may seem a little, ‘im to old’ i’m still asking it.
Of course it started in my childhood, all the signs. My parents are a little old fashioned and didn’t realise the effect of ADHD growing up, without treatment. Sort of the brush it off, medication is only if you have an infection or..You get my point?
Now i’m 20 im understanding more how this has effected my life, To low grades to jumping to one job to the other.
Im never settled. Now I have a job,and its getting to the point where my ADHD is annoying me.I love my job but always am unsettled and always getting shouted at for my attention span and hyperness.
I would like to go to the doctor and see if he can recomend anything. Although im doubtful because i am 20, Its not that this ADHD has just come on, Its now that im understanding and wanting to do something about this.
Because im 20, Will something be done? or Brushed under the table filled with excuses.
Sorry its long thankyou
Thanks for the info, more needed if anyone has experience.
To be honest i feel somewhat bad, going to the doctors if i don’t have a leg hanging off me. LOL. I know its there job, maybe its my doctor whom im not comfy with. I remember getting my tonsils removed, Random. It took my doctors some what over 6 months and over 20 visits. They just seemed to give me meds which helped for a week then back to the same problem.
I will make an appointment;
Does anyone know the best way to word it, I dont want him to think, I’ve read something online…Im getting paranoid about it. I know some people are like that and because im now 20 he may think because it wasnt treated at a young age…Im getting paranoid. I am a paranoid person anyways, which i think is down to the ADHD also. Ahhh, well thanks for the info guys.
Tags: Going To The Doctors, Parents
December 26th, 2006 at 11:18 am
its never too long go see a doctor hun you should be able to get yourself help no matter how old you are all the luck to you
December 29th, 2006 at 4:17 am
Depends on your doc. If your doc brushes you off, FIND A NEW ONE!! You are never to old to start managing ADHD! You can get on medication if that’s what you chose to do. However, BEWARE of docs who push ADHD meds on anyone with the slightest complaint!!! From experience, medication is not always the best option. There are other ways of coping with your ADHD without the use of medication. Ask your doc about those, too before he/she just writes you a prescription.
Oh, and do not, under any circumstances, allow your doc to put you on Effexor. Just trust me…….
Good luck! i hope you find what you’re looking for.
December 30th, 2006 at 4:12 pm
I wasn’t diagnosed until I was almost a senior in high school. It really annoyed me because I felt I could’ve made better grades, etc., if it had been found out earlier.
When I was diagnosed, I went to one of my doctors that I’d been to before (for something else) and he gave me a questionnaire to fill out (the questions were like “I often forget things: most of the time/some of the time/almost never” and things like that) It’s a common way of “testing” for ADHD/ADD (I have ADD), and after it looked like I might have it, he tried me on Adderrall.
I studied from a textbook later, and I think it was the first time I was actually able to read through whole pages without getting distracted.
I’ve been on Adderrall for about 3-4 years now and it’s still working. My doctor actually asked me if I wanted to try medication (instead of just jumping straight to a prescription, because there are other things you can do depending on the severity) and I said yes because I was desperate–hopefully you can find a doctor who will do the same thing.
p.s. you can also try different strengths of medicine; 10 mg didn’t work for me at first, so I went to 20 mg and stayed on that.
December 31st, 2006 at 5:45 pm
You’re never too old, just depends if you had the symptoms when you were a kid. “Too old” is when symptoms pop up out of the blue instead of being consistent throughout childhood to adulthood. I was diagnosed with ADHD at age 21, two or three months ago. I’d recommend you go to a Psychiatrist. But if you’re like me, too poor and don’t have access to one ATM, then go to a Psychologist. Tell them that you think you have ADHD, you’ve researched it and it sounds like you have it. They’ll tell you how much and then do an evaluation, and maybe some tests. Psychiatrists would understand ADHD better and go ahead and give meds, vs having to go to an MD and hoping they’ll give you the right meds (if any at all).
January 1st, 2007 at 4:59 pm
Go in and explain what you have said here without using terms like ADHD. Sometimes when u go to a doctor and act smart they think you are med seeking. So honestly go in and play dumb, like you don’t know what is going on at all. i was diagnosed when i was 22 with ADD and did take meds for awhile, and I was a 4.0 student in high school.. So even when you don’t fit a stereotype, don’t get down on yourself. Keep trying. Some doctors are just idiots (geeze and i always seem to find the ones that are complete morons). when you go in start with symptons now and problems at work and then u can go back to when you were younger and having the same problems. any doctor with 1/2 a brain will realize the connections. Good luck.. and if you get an idiot doctor don’t give up one out there will listen and understand.