Here we can all be heard for a little while. Part 3

Gingernutty

There used to be ADD - Attention Deficiency Disorder and ADHD - Attention Deficient Hyperactivity Disorder.


However, as everyone benefited from the same treatments, some bright spark realised/decided that all ADD and ADHD diagnosed people are on the same spectrum.

So we're all ADHD now. ADHD-PH (Primarily Hyperactive), ADHD-PI (Primarily Inattentive) (the new term for ADD) and ADHD-C (Combined).

Pyxis

elsien wrote: »

What does the PI bit stand for?

Predominantly Inattentive.

You've got the predominantly Hyperactive type, the PI, and then the Combined type, if the categories are still the same as when I was first diagnosed.




Edit..... crossed post with Gingernutty.
That's ADHD for you - jumping in before someone's finished! :rotfl:

Gingernutty

Yeah. Predominantly. Not primarily.

elsien

It's the hyperactive type that comes to mind when people think of ADHD, isn't it? You learn something new in here all the time.

Are you good shocked or not sure shocked, if that makes sense?

Gingernutty

On the one hand, it was kinda/sorta expected. On the other hand this is big, life-changing stuff.

Kinda relieved and sorta trepidatious. I know they're not proper words, btw.

I'm hoping, once the referrals and tests are done, this can be sorted quickly.

I have no idea what's going to happen, if the drugs will work, what happens if they do or what happens if they don't.

Gingernutty

They even gave examples of people with the combined type.

wil.i.am, Keith Lemon were two.

I said I couldn't watch them as they annoyed me. :rotfl:

elsien

Your made up words make perfect sense.

Do they look at medication first or are there other strategies that can be learned for people who don't like taking tablets? Just curious about adult treatment as opposed to that for children - tell me to go away if I'm being too nosey!

Pyxis

Gingernutty wrote: »

On the one hand, it was kinda/sorta expected. On the other hand this is big, life-changing stuff.

Kinda relieved and sorta trepidatious. I know they're not proper words, btw.

I'm hoping, once the referrals and tests are done, this can be sorted quickly.

I have no idea what's going to happen, if the drugs will work, what happens if they do or what happens if they don't.

Trepidatious is good!
Try trepidanxious! :rotfl:

If the first drug doesn't work, they'd probably either change the dose or try a different one. That happened to me.

Also, expect some weird feelings initially....physical ones, I mean. (How anyone likes to take them recreationally is beyond me!)
They will wear off, though.

It's like anything.... you have to give these things time, and remember, you have a whole lot of coping strategies in place that you've built up over years, and they can take a bit of unravelling.

Pyxis

Gingernutty wrote: »

They even gave examples of people with the combined type.

wil.i.am, Keith Lemon were two.

I said I couldn't watch them as they annoyed me. :rotfl:

The fact that it's inherited is a pain, because a house full of ADHD people is no fun to live in....... no wonder such families are dysfunctional, as well I know.

elsien

One of ERs children got sectioned today. They've gone through a lot lately so it's no great surprise, but it's sad all the same. Wondering how much of a genetic element there is there, and how much is/was environmental factors.