It is kind of turning out rather well, honestly. I thought I'd hate it because I tried it years ago and decided to stick with a different stimulant which is now utterly unaffordable to me. That was really early on, though, and now that I've been
through the rollercoaster of all that stuff, it seems to be working out Just Lovely, and it appears I can take it twice a day, not what felt like 700 times.
I was one of those "dreamy no trouble" ADHD girls, who just sat in the back of the classroom drawing horses and then scaring teachers with my test scores. But, I was kinda an underachiever, until I went to college, but I wish I'd been medicated for Math, I would have wound up being a doctor (which was my real desire) instead of a Social worker. But, since I was "non-troublesome," I was unidentified.
It was only when my pdoc gave me a (weak) stimulant to treat my untreatable by anything except lithium depression that I found out. The husband came up to me and asked "Am I being too hard on you?" (about closing doors, screwing on lids, etc. he was very vocal about my lack of skills there, LOL) and I was like, "Uh, it might be my meds? He gave me something that helps me focus? But it's not the whining, I tune that out Upfront, like a broken speaker," that I figured it out, LOL. Well, my doc confirmed it after hearing about what I did in school. He was like, "Yep, you're too smart, so you just over- under- focused" and I was like "Yep."
I will be
THRILLED to be done with the stimulant saga though, because when something works, it WORKS for me.... Until
insurance matters come and bulldoze my life. LOL. Ritalin gave me an
intense desire to have Adderall work, let me put it that way, glad to hear it worked for your kiddo. I am far from perfect, but can organize okay on the right stimulant. My dad was kinda the same way, he was perfectly happy to "live" by taking clothes out of the dryer, etc., instead of folding them. My mom had some special "magic" to fix him, but her wiles did not work on ME and etc. LOL.
Anna