Clematis
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I am reading this thread with great interest. I was DXed ADHD many years ago and was on adder all for years. I stopped a year or two before DS as my BP was climbing. I miss the mental acuity. I am embarrassed and horrified at my own attention span/memory issues. (No where near as scary as when I was on statins and became aphasic, forgot my own birthdate and was getting lost in my own neighborhood.) I have a stack of books I must read and projects I must complete but get distracted and am feeling anxious because I am so far behind. The most disturbing is when someone says, "Don't you remember that..." and I have no memory of it. If I forgot something in the past, a reminder would have the memory flood back, but no longer. I was getting belligerent: "You never told me that!" but it was happening so often that now I have to accept that, yeah, they probably did and my brain is a sieve. (And I have been struggling to stay awake during the day but that's due to getting up in the night to pee and not being able to fall back asleep.) I have years-old adder all and was considering taking some but am loathe to increase my BP nor do I was anything in my system that would raise eyebrows and prevent getting morphine if I need to go to the ER for kidney stones. Now that I read about modafinil (JESUS MARY AND JOSEPH I had to scroll back 2x just to remember how to spell it!!) it may be an option, but it too can increase BP. Keep us posted on how this works for you @DianaCox