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what did she say?
well, today ive decided to put [some things] in an online journal.... who the hell is really going to read this crap? not that it matters, the point is for therapeutic reasons i suppose. i work too much and my life has become quite overloaded and stressful, so i am using this as a healing tool.
my doctor started me on straterra yesterday. for those of you not-so-medically-smart, its an ADD drug. yep, thats right, ive got the adult add. apparently my sister has it as well and was diagnosed with it when she was 8 because she was failing 3rd grade. then there was me, who was a whiz in school- skipped 2nd grade. for me school was something i thought was easy and wanted to speed through it. i was dx'd with ADD at the age of 19 and thought the dr was crazier than me. however, now at 25 and a year after my divorce, ive discovered trying to balance my life on my own was something i could not do, so i bucked up and went in for a magic pill so i could pay my bills on time and do my dishes.
they first rx'd me with Adderall back in april 2003, but i didnt feel it was helping much so they gave me Ferndex (dexedrine). talk about a wonderful drug. nothing like legal cocaine. people thought i was the most organized person in the world on that stuff. however, the addiction properties made me want to try something a little less controlling and taking it every 4-6 hours sucked. that and having to go see my dr once a month for a refill was getting inconvenient when i was out and couldnt get an appointment. so, we shall see what straterra will do for me. so far ive become quite tired (also due to dexedrine withdrawal), which is normal and a sign that i do in fact have ADD because if i didnt- it would wire me or do nothing at all. we will give it a couple of weeks and go from there. her and a psychologist i saw were contemplating on whether or not i had bi-polar, which is basically extreme ADD, so being on the straterra should rule that out since bi-polar ppl usually get very agitated, irritated & wired when on straterra.
anyways, thats my latest news.
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