Adhd homies who are on meds, how did you pick the medication you are on?
Back in high school when I was able to use my parent's insurance, I was on Strattera. But the generic version is, like, six times more expensive than Ritalin, so I'm thinking about trying something new.
You can give input but ultimately you don't get to pick them...your prescriber picks them
Husband with a wife and three children. They are all on different medications. Two have the same doctor. They all started on something else. One went up on dosage. One burned through dosages until they hit a limit and we had to change. One takes one type of medicine. the other takes 3 in the morning, one in the afternoon, and one in the evening. Two of them we had to get genetic testing to understand what would work best.
I guess I say all that to say your prescriber and you have to work together and you need to listen to your body and your mind on what's working. What is different when you take something? We had one drug that ended up making one of them have short term memory issues, another one had strange joint pain, all rare side effects.
Know that there are a lot of options but you do have to sometimes work through them.
Genetic testing? Never heard of that one before
It was to understand which medication might have lingering effects and which ones might metabolize too quickly. It was specifically focused on ADHD medication.
Genesight?
I had this done too, went through a company called Genesight, though mine covered all different categories of meds, not just ADHD. I got on a good medicine for anxiety, it works wonders. I highly recommend getting tested, it cuts down on the testing