Generally improved

Now that my cold has gone I have to confess that things are better. I'm still not sure this is the optimum dose but I can't complain that it's not working at all. I'm still managing to organise myself better, although a broken car meant that I couldn't get my prescription before I ran out so I had a couple of days without any medication.

Those two days I was more weary, less enthusiastic and definitely more anxious. It was definitely a good experience though to make myself aware of the changes.

I've managed to get some college work done which has made me feel better, I am ready to do the first assignment but I still suspect it will be an all nighter rather than an organised day job. I've never been able to study properly before about 8pm and certainly study best after midnight, even if I don't actually make it to bed.  I guess we'll soon find out how that goes and I'll update the blog with my result as well. I usually do alright at assignments once I get started but find it impossible to start them at all. Exams are more my strength, I'm pretty good at cramming the night before!

Right, off to sort dinner, just wanted to make sure you all knew things were on the up!

A little disappointed

So here I am after a few days of taking 52mg per day and I'm a little disappointed that there hasn't been a return to the initial burst of clarity and energy. I do feel a little better, but it's quite up and down during the day, I am starting to get a bit more organised again but not in the same way. I don't know what the maximum dose would be but I get the feeling this isn't it, I just hope that this isn't the best it can do! I now have the next five or six weeks until my next appointment so the long term effects will be interesting.

I suppose if being mildly better during the day is a long term thing rather than having a couple of weeks of great and then not even noticing it then it's something to be grateful for.

Interestingly I'm just getting over another cold. The day after the dose went up I got hit, again, by a full blown head cold. Whether it's coincidence that the same thing happened when I started taking it or whether somehow my defences were altered with the dose change, and of course that doesn't help how the last week has gone. I've generally felt rubbish anyway, so maybe now that it's clearing up my concentration will too.

I've also had a car break down and the bus routes don't work out for my old house. I'm trying to get work done to sell it, and my Doctors is still over there so I can't put in the prescription until the car is fixed, hopefully today, so there's been a frustration over the last few days too. I think ADHD does not help matters, I find when there's 'too much to do' I can't forget about the things I can't do anything about and I end up doing nothing at all. I'm trying to plan a 70th Birthday buffet on Saturday, get the house back on the market and catch up with school work yet facebook games have crept back into my life and are draining my days away.

I've also had lots of appointments recently, not just for me but for my children. My son has had a blood test for microarray analysis as he's diagnosed with Autistic Spectrum Disorder but I have this nagging feeling that there could be something else so they're kindly obliging me with that. I had a meeting to talk about family history a couple of days after that, with my middle daughter being diagnosed with Asperger's and my eldest ADHD there's clearly something genetically which would show up with my son, but I also feel it led to the diagnoses of ASD almost without considering other options. My Pediatrician really hates Google, I went in comparing my sons traits with a rare condition and you could see her wanting to go home! Still they're looking into it so that a good thing.

Anyway, it seems I gone into waffle mode so I will leave it there. Thank you for dropping by, feel free to ask me questions!