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Originally Posted by deanslist23
sorry ahead of time for the length  . 2003 my dr told me i suffered from anxiety and SAD. 2004 my dr told me i had ocd and i tried different meds over the course of a year. 2005 i was treated for depression again. 2006-2007 i struggled with ocd?, depression and anxiety. when i saw a therapist and described what was happening to me, she said she thought it was add, not ocd, but i never told my dr. 2008 i took a bunch of info from the internet to my dr and asked if i was bipolar (grandfather is), she said i was too old! 2009 i switched dr's and therapists. my new dr had me answer questions from a sheet of paper about bipolar and said i had it. she put me on symbyax. the combination of symbax and therapy helped my depression significantly. the problem is that while my depression is better, i still have add symptoms but my dr said she can't diagnose me with it because she doesn't know if i can take add meds with bipolar meds (i'm only on cymbalta) so she told me i had to see a psychologist. when i called to find one, they all said they couldn't diagnose me unless i stopped seeing my therapist and started seeing them. everything i've read suggests there's no problem with taking cymbalta and adderall together, i actually took one of my husband's xr's to see if it helped any and to decide if it was worth it to pursue answers and i saw a HUGE difference! for the first time in yrs i didn't jump from one task to the next without finishing any!! how can i make my dr see? |
Hey I feel your pain cause I suffer from adhd and ocd and panic attacks and mild depression.If your doctor want listen about the adhd then I would switch doctors and get a one who knows and treat adhd .It was hard for my old doctor to dx me as adhd and she was like maybe its more of ocd then adhd .And I told her no Its both cause I could not finsh things just kept on not finshing nothing so one day my nephew said I hate to see you suffering like this and he gave me some of his ritlin and thank God for him cause I could focus enough to finsh my tasks.And the next day I had an doctors appointment and I told my doctor just like this I said I do have adhd cause my nephew gave me sum of his pills and it work.But she got mad and said you dont supposed to take nobody else meds .And I just said I know Iam not but I was just proving a point to you that the ritlin worked and I do have adhd so I went to a new doctor and let them know I have adhd and she test me and gave me sum ritlin and now Iam to focus and understand what people was saying so my advice is if your doctor dont listen and try to avoid getting you tested then I would make a doctors appointment with someone who will listen huggs good luck keep posting.
