i dont know much about adhd, but i am bored and reading any posts that dont have a lot of responses. what i do know is that it is something that is way overdiagnosed and medicated and often hard to diagnose. another thing i know is a sure fire way of knowing if you have adhd is to try the medication. if it speeds you up, gets you high, you DONT have adhd. if it works, if you can focus, get things done, etc, then you DO have adhd.

so i think the fact that you tried the med and it worked is a very important thing for the doctor to know. revealing that to the doctor on the other hand can be very difficult i can understand. i have been there. it is very hard. i was taking my sister's topomax to lose weight but found it really helped to stabilize my mood. she ran out so i had to reveal it to my pdoc so that i could get the drug prescribed to me. i have gone to so many different pdocs and it happened to be a new one and i told him it was a stash i had from one of my original pdocs and one day i just started taking it thinking it would help me and it did. so maybe you can say you know it wasnt wise, but you had a friend who was adhd with similar symptoms as you and she gave you a weeks worth of adderal to try, you were desperate for any relief so you did and it worked great.

i know taking other peoples meds is a bad thing to admit to a doc, but hell, i fall back on the logic that i am a mental patient for christs sake, you expect me to make good decisions when i am desperate to end the craziness?

just my two cents. i think it would be good for doc to know that bit of info. good luck to you.