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   How can I convince my doctors?? (ADD - Attention Deficit Disorder board)

30th March 2007
I have one comment. If Wellbutrin helped a little, you should consider discussing Stattera with them. It's a drug for ADD but is also prescribed off label for anxiety and bipolar. Because it's in the same class of drugs as wellbutrin you might have a chance of convincing them to let you try it. Explain why you think it would help, I managed to convince my doctor away from SSRI's and classic antidepressant medication at all because I firmly believed after reading on this board that they wouldn't help. I think I'm similar to you in that I think I have ADD but know that the doctors are averse to self diagnosis. Mine listened to me going for something that might help my attention span as well as my bipolar and anxiety. Also, consider lamictal. I learned it helped me greatly with ordering my thoughts, when they used to be more scattered. I originally went to the doctor thinking I had ADD as well, but he tested me and decided I was bi polar. He started me on seroquel and lamictal and now I realise he was right. I was just going to take them, and if nothing improved, return to him and demand to be tested for ADD.
 
 

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