Posted by IsoM on January 7, 2002, at 21:09:58
In reply to Re: Motivation/Focusing » CalvaryHill, posted by Mark H. on January 7, 2002, at 20:49:30
Mark, reading over your answers to others' suggestions, maybe if you tend to be more bipolar thn ADHD, the Provigil might have a different effect on you. I hope not for you, but it's a possiblility. I'm definitely ADHD, scored very high in testing but no BP signs. It might account for my good response to adrafinil as it's also used in Europe for ADHD.
It's funny what you say about memory. I felt like I was becoming stupid as I ususually had a good memory but the last few years, it's been seriously going downhill. I was amazed at how adrafinil made my mind & memory work again. I'm going to tackle my physics & calculus books again.
I always had problems with what I refer to as my 'working memory' (like a computer) that's so important in figuring calculations. By the time I tried to remember the fourth piece in a list of info, my brain tossed out the first to make room for the fourth. Extremely frustrating. Didn't matter how well I understood the concept, I couldn't work out problems. I want to see if the adrafinil will help me there now. Somehow I think it may as I don't walk into a room anymore & look around aimlessly not knowing why I came there in the first place. I read an ADHDictionary one time that described it as the "Hereafter" as in "what did I come here after?" :)
Why not ask your doctor if any meds for BP will improve memory?
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> Ironically, I experienced the worst short-term memory problems on buproprion of any of the 25 or so antidepressants I tried between 1993 and 1997, when my doctor finally found a "mix" that works reasonably well for me. I must have the wrong type of body chemistry for Wellbutrin to work for me for concentration, since it has the exact opposite effect. However, I'm very much more at the bipolar-II end of the spectrum than the ADHD end.
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> But I appreciate knowing about that use for buproprion. Thank you for writing.
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> Mark H.
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> > Maybe you could try buproprion, which is used in ADHD for concentration problems.
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