My Afflation

So I haven't met Doug in person yet, but I have been reading his blog fairly regularly over the last five years. And he's the one who got me into twitter (just a little widget he had on his blog...) Anyways, if you have ADHD, or know someone who does, you can now take him on the road with you on your Kindle. He is definitely worth the read! You can also read Doug's advice column on ADDaboy ! Related articles by Zemanta Sleepwriting and Other Musings (thesplinteredmind.blogspot.com) How To Reach Out On Twitter (blogworldexpo.com)

Weekends lately have been especially hard. The quiet, the mind drifting ... I guess it doesn't help that I stopped taking my ADs. They were making me sleepy. Well, the Lexapro was. I need to call my doc and find one that treats *just* SAD or ask for the lowest dosage possible of Wellbutrin. I'll find some other way to deal with ADD. I hate feeling stupid. Though, the fuzzy-brain is somewhat normal for me these days. Not that I like it, but I am used to it. Funny how we don't want to give up the things we are used to, even if they are detrimental ...

So, this afternoon I went to my doc about the hives and some other weird stuff the WB was doing with my ADD (can we say I was getting stupid, unfocused and really random?) She firmly believes that it was still the sulfa in the bactrim that was causing the hives (saying that the effects could last up to two weeks) and just a REALLY weird coincidence about the timing with the Wellbutrin. And that I was probably just really sensitive to it and “please, Annette, I hope you don’t ever get sick” or something along those lines. She wasn’t too upset that I had stopped taking it, but suggested I start it again, and yes, if I started getting hives again, then we could look at some other anti-depressant. That’s when I brought up the other things that were going on and she offered me a two-week trial of Lexapro , yet another anti-depressant that also treats ADD. I was telling Tim all this and he wonders how much might be environmental since I didn’t really have much mental health issues before I...