Quote from ireneb96:

Ok Im really becoming confused with all the type of meds and what they are supposed to do. I am the typical "daydreamer" low energy "couch potato" Im tired when I wake up and feel the need to take a nap in the afternoon no mater how much sleep I get. Everyday tasks overwhelm me and I can never get done what I'v started. I have been on wellbutrin xl for about a month and it has helped but thats more for my anxiety disorder. I was just put on Ritilin a week ago and that makes me feel like sitting and stairing off into space at least befor I was daydreaming, now I just sit..blank..no energy... I have taken street drugs in my past past and this feels too much like cocaine to me (I hated cocaine it made me sleep and numb). I feel the need to drink lots of coffee just to stay alert. HELP!! Does anyone have any suggestions on maybe another med that would work with the wellbutrin and that wont turn me into a walking zombe! Or does any one know where I can get good solid facts on this type of ADD?? :confused:

[FONT=Comic Sans MS]Hi! Really glad to read that you're completely off the street drugs! Congratulations!! Very hard to do......
The member that mentioned thyroid could be onto something. I've thought for years that I was really strange, daydreaming, no energy, brain-fog, but should have known better. I told my doctor about it and she said, wait until we have your thyroid straightened out after doing the bloodwork and finding out that my TSH and RT3 were too high. These are strong reasons for feeling ADD. So, I wait....until March and then I will be re-evaluated, after numerous adjustments on Cytomel. As I'm getting closer to normal with different doses, I'm less and less thinking ADD, rather low thyroid function. They both have many of the same symptoms and looking back at my school years....can more readily believe thyroid problems even then. I was famous for shivering uncontrollably after eating ice cream on the hottest summer days!
Read everything you can find on both problems and ask your doctor many, many questions. In fact, write down the whole list before going in.....and come out with all of them answered...and COPIES of all lab work! It's your right to have them...all you have to do is ask! You won't regret keeping records of everything.... [/FONT]

Quote from opalfirejucika:

[FONT=Comic Sans MS]Hi! Really glad to read that you're completely off the street drugs! Congratulations!! Very hard to do......
The member that mentioned thyroid could be onto something. I've thought for years that I was really strange, daydreaming, no energy, brain-fog, but should have known better. I told my doctor about it and she said, wait until we have your thyroid straightened out after doing the bloodwork and finding out that my TSH and RT3 were too high. These are strong reasons for feeling ADD. So, I wait....until March and then I will be re-evaluated, after numerous adjustments on Cytomel. As I'm getting closer to normal with different doses, I'm less and less thinking ADD, rather low thyroid function. They both have many of the same symptoms and looking back at my school years....can more readily believe thyroid problems even then. I was famous for shivering uncontrollably after eating ice cream on the hottest summer days!
Read everything you can find on both problems and ask your doctor many, many questions. In fact, write down the whole list before going in.....and come out with all of them answered...and COPIES of all lab work! It's your right to have them...all you have to do is ask! You won't regret keeping records of everything.... [/FONT]

I'v had blood work done but came back ok however I used to get cold after eating as a child but not anymore and my normal temp is 97.6 degrees. But like I said the blood work came back normal.

I was diagnosed with "add" as a child but my father never told me do to fear of the meds.