A place primarily for people with ADHD to discuss how to live with its symptoms and support each other.
So what drugs had you tried, and what are you taking now?
Also, how expensive was the test?
For me, adderall helps, but I don’t know how much I should expect from a drug and how much I just have to get better habits. Plus, adderall is short acting, and I’d like to use one of the round-the-clock options if they’d work for me. Obviously, it’s preferable to not spend a long time figuring out which other options might also work for me.
Oh and it cost me around $600 which is not covered by insuranoe.
For ADHD in particular, I've tried Adderall/Vivance, Ritalin/Concerta, Atomextetin and couple of others whose name I forgot.
Based on the suggestions of the report I have started taking Guanfacine/Intuniv.
Thank you for posting something this personal. These communities (as a former reddit user) have been incredibly helpful to me thru stories just like this. If we can get them self-sustaining on Lemmy they will help a lot of others.
Back to topic, I've not done an extensive pharmacogenetic test, but I did take one to confirm that I'm a CYP2D6 poor metabolizer, which has a huge effect on function of something like 25% of all drugs in existence! It's definitely informed my treatment since getting that information.
Edit: haha, speaking of ADHD I left a shorter version of this comment 2 months ago. the more the merrier..
A few years back during a grueling med search I pestered my shrink for a CYP2D6 genetic test and sure enough I'm a non-metabolizer ... it's played into a number of med decisions since then.