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The fibro fog is frustrating and sometimes very embarrassing. I joke about it often because you might as well laugh as cry, but deep down I struggle with it daily and it depresses me. I just started taking Adderall XR 20mg a day a few week ago and it is helping a lot with the concentration and focus. Unlike you, Cadburry, my mind was NEVER with the program! People would tease me -- "you'd lose your head if it wasn't attached" and I would laugh it off, but deep down their comments hurt a lot. It wasn't that I didn't try to stay focused, but I had the attention span of a gnat unless it was something that I really loved and was really interested in. I have had ADD symptoms (my son also has it) for most of my life, but once I hit my forties, the perimenopause, or "mental pause" as they call it, and the fibro fog set in. Then I became completely Lost in Space! My memory is still not great, but I find that I can recall names and appts. etc better and I don't have as many of those "senior moments" when my mind just goes blank and I stare off into space wondering what on earth I was talking about or about to say. I am amazed at what a difference this has made in my quality of life, because it has helped so much with the chronic fatigue and energy level too! I know this isn't the answer for everyone, but if others in your family have ADD, you may have it too. Many women are not diagnosed until they are adults. Our symptoms may present differently than the boys and men...we may have been known as "daydreamers" or "absent minded" or "spacey." I was never hyperactive or had any aggressive or disruptive behavior, I just was always losing things, forgetting things, chronically distracted and disorganized, and not being able to concentrate on more than one thing at a time. Multi-tasking? Forget it! Women with ADD often have anxiety and depression along with the ADD because of the toll it takes on their lives in their struggle to hold down jobs and carry out difficult or boring tasks to completion. I'm just passing this information along in case anyone here thinks they may have adult ADD and haven't yet been diagnosed. here are a couple of links if anyone wants to do more reading or do a self screening preliminary test for symptoms: http://www.baltimorepsych.com/Girl's_ADHD.htm http://counsellingresource.com/quizzes/adhd/index.html |
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