10:49am July 28, 2013

➸ Janna's weird crap: A series of thoughts as they come to me. (1)

karalianne:

I don’t want people to feel bad about needing to take medication to help with their ADHD symptoms. If medication helps, then you should take it. That’s not a bad thing. It’s what you need, and that’s important.

Yes. I wish there wasn’t so much drama around…

I kind of know why people would refuse to try. I’ve been tried on all the ADD meds and I wish I hadn’t been. They speed up my heart which…. doesn’t need speeding up. I wouldn’t generally recommend them to anyone who tends towards severe tachycardia.

But when I say that people say “you must not have ADD in the first place, because ALL people with ADD have a certain response to meds”.

And I have a really hard time believing that there are no people with ADD in the world where the meds make them worse instead of better, or who experience severe side effects to it. Because meds don’t work that way for any condition. Conditions are defined by symptoms, med response can help diagnose someone but it can’t undiagnose them. Like are they saying that someone with very severe ADHD traits doesn’t have it if the meds make them more hyperactive instead of calmer and more focused? Med-related defining of illnesses pisses me off.

Like the fact I have a really good reaction to Mestinon makes a good case that I have myasthenia. But if I didn’t, it wouldn’t mean I don’t have it.

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