Epsilon Alpha
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Well it didn't catch the "llot"
We're all wired differently, tricomb. Personally, my anxiety is pretty mild, with no other mental conditions that can cause a surge of DA/NE, so my levels of norepinephrine are very low, being inattentively ADD.
This is why ephedrine worked so great for me before I discovered ADD meds, where to most people with moderate-severe anxiety (who have high baseline levels of NE naturally due to anxiety), ephedrine would just make them anxious: too high of a NE release with not enough DA release. People with moderate-severe hypertension also have naturally high levels of NE, and dislike Adderall.
I have a good memory in things I'm interested in, like drugs.
Lyrica should help you more, as it causes less side effects for the same amount of pain relief if I recall correctly. Tramadol is also fantastic for ADD if the dosage is low enough, as it is a great stimulant as long as too much serotonin doesn't get released with a high dosage. Also, it is an acetylcholine agonist, which helps with focus.
Phentermine, modafinil, adrafinil, etc. are actually not bad at all for inattentive ADD'ers, since they lean towards more NE release than pure CNS stims like Dex/d-meth. I'm glad it works for you dude. And fuck, 97 on chemistry, way to go! :D
My parents were also very anti-meds and anti-pdocs, as were my teachers, but I didn't think there was anything different with the way my brain was wired until I hit college. It's amazing how intelligent a lot of ADD'ers are, I scored extremely highly on classes I was interested in during HS, and was frequently either disciplined for misbehavior or commended on amazing insights in class. When an ADD person is interested in something and is not on medication, they will hyperfocus on it since they can't control where their attention is going.
ADD is an executive functioning disorder, which leads to a lack of control on where to direct your focus and attention. It's not an "attention deficit," per se, more like a "deficit in the direction of attention."