{"id":8114,"date":"2014-01-20T15:08:28","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T14:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.addkenmerken.net\/?p=8114"},"modified":"2019-10-01T21:35:43","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T19:35:43","slug":"melissa-her-life-with-add","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.addkenmerken.net\/en\/melissa-haar-leven-met-add\/","title":{"rendered":"Melissa's life full of ups and downs due to ADD and medication"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-large\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">227<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">shared<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-large mash-center mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.addkenmerken.net%2Fen%2Fmelissa-haar-leven-met-add%2F%3Futm_source%3Dsharebuttons%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook%26utm_campaign%3Dmashshare\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Share<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-large mash-center mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.addkenmerken.net\/en\/?p=8114&amp;via=krachtvanADHD\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Tweet<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-large mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>For a few years now, Melissa has known she has ADD<\/h2>\n<p>Hello,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8137\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8137\" style=\"width: 227px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8137\" src=\"https:\/\/www.addkenmerken.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Melissa-van-R.jpg\" alt=\"Melissa on her life with ADD\" width=\"227\" height=\"227\" title=\"\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8137\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Melissa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I saw on the <a title=\"Facebook page www.addkenmerken.net\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ADDADHDHSP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener \">Facebook page<\/a> that you could tell your own story about ADD, and I thought it would be fun\/fun to share it with others.<\/p>\n<p>My father died in 2010. Soon after, I met my boyfriend (through hyves). His father had also died, and we immediately clicked. We dated and since then we have almost never been apart. We went through an intense period. I was severely depressed, and I had lost all sense of life. I ended up at GGZ. Every day things got a little better, and my boyfriend and I were looking at housing for ourselves. A few months later, we were moving, but my therapy continued as usual, but in another province. Training I would pick up again when it started again, but also in another province. In between, I had had several jobs, and everything failed. Education, job, I got deeper and deeper into the pit and felt totally useless.<\/p>\n<p>My practitioner, was a top woman. She gave me some good kicks in the ass, which I needed. But it was no longer of any use to me, my boyfriend and I got into more and more frequent arguments, which ended in violent tantrums for me.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, November 2013, I was diagnosed with ADD, after answering a series of questions, it was all for sure. I have ADD, but <a title=\"Differences between the 3 ADHD types and their overlap with HSP\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addkenmerken.net\/en\/add-symptoms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener \">what is ADD<\/a>?..... At home I looked up everything about <a title=\"ADD characteristics and info\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addkenmerken.net\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener \">ADD<\/a>, and had to let it sink in quietly for myself. Also from my practitioner. The following week, I had a conversation about how I would take things further. I took drastic measures to leave my boyfriend, and move in with my mother and stepfather and resume my education there. As soon as I started my education, I would be put on medication, the well-known ritalin.<\/p>\n<p>It was over with my boyfriend, I was living with my mother and stepfather, I was doing fun things with my stepsister and my education had started, so had my medication. I got the medication <a href=\"https:\/\/www.addkenmerken.net\/en\/add-symptoms\/\">methylphenidate<\/a>. That was no fun, if you ask me. The dose was increased each time and by the end, I could no longer eat and even threw up. I lost a lot of weight and felt tired and weak. I kept this up for a while, but then I felt a bit better, not great yet, but it was okay.<\/p>\n<p>A few months later, my boyfriend and I were in a relationship again. I missed him terribly and he me, we knew for sure we couldn't live without each other. Then things went badly wrong. I had an allergic reaction, but I didn't know that at the time. I woke up terrified, screaming, floating and not feeling well. My mother came running upstairs and calmed me down, but my eyes....My eyes rolled upwards and then I couldn't see anything. I had sent a video to my boyfriend, and it freaked him out, who immediately said YOU ARE BLIND! And my mother also said you look like a blind person. Several times I went to the doctor's office, went to hospital, but it was \u2018stress\u2019 or I was \u2018acting up\u2019. So sent home each time.<\/p>\n<p>Until one day I burst into tears. I couldn't take it anymore, I was in pain, couldn't see anything and it just didn't feel right and had called the doctor again and again I was fobbed off with \u2018take rest\u2019. Until my mother angrily called the GP that she wanted to come right now and be examined further. Until I sat at the GP and all sorts of people looked at me and said that girl may for me, because this is not good. Hehe, finally people who did understand.<\/p>\n<p>The GP looked into my eyes, but she couldn't, whereupon she tried a trick. No doctor could look into my eyes except her. She didn't know, but took the time to tell me what it could be. Until she said hey, you take ritalin, right? And then the ball started rolling. I had to stop the medication immediately and was given oxazepam to kick off and calm down. The next day I had to come back, and immediately call my relevant medication doctor.<\/p>\n<p>I had done a week without medication, what the hell, because all hell broke loose at home too, a lot of whining and things were thrown at my head that I totally disagreed with, so what arise, exactly, a tantrum. I slammed the hearing door, ran upstairs, knocked over everything in my room, slammed myself against the wall....<\/p>\n<p>A lot happened after that, many conversations, arguments, but also a lot of changes in the house. I also got different medication, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.addkenmerken.net\/en\/add-symptoms\/\">dexamphetamine<\/a>. A low dose, and it works enough, I don't want more because I am anxious.<\/p>\n<p>And now... 2014 a new start for me education is going well, living with my boyfriend again and are even looking for a nice and big house to buy together. We have great things ahead of us and we also have great future plans together. After my education, I want to slowly reduce my medication and try to do it on my own. Also because we want a child in the future and that doesn't go together with ritalin (drugs). And also after my education, I will start my own childcare centre, so my life is looking good now.<\/p>\n<p>I am happy, and I feel good! I'm curious to see what the future will bring me and be even happier!<\/p>\n<p>This was a small part of my story, veeeeeeeery more has happened in my life, but I am still working on that. In the future, I also want to write a book about my life, including tips and advice for people with depression, ADD, eating disorders, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Greetings Melissa<\/p>\n<p>Addition by Melissa on 21 April 2014<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #0222222;\">I have been taking for a month now <a title=\"lto3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addkenmerken.net\/en\/lto3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener \">LTO3<\/a>, slowly phased out and completely off ritalin since 2 weeks. It works super for me! I no longer feel so groggy, I sleep well in and through, and everything tastes a lot better to me again. I discussed this with my psychiatrist to which she said okay I have to say it's wrong, but actually I think it's super if it works well for you. Last week I visited my psychiatrist for the last time. Never felt so good about myself before!!! Glad to be off the junk also because my boyfriend and I want a baby in the future. It costs a bit but I'd rather take natural remedies than that rubbish that gave me terrible side effects. Incidentally, my boyfriend doesn't notice any difference that I no longer take ritalin, but is he happy that I don't feel so drowsy? (I talk his ear off)<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #0222222;\">Greetings Melissa<\/p>\n<p>You can leave a comment on Melissa's story below<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-marketing-button uagb-marketing-btn__outer-wrap uagb-marketing-btn__align-center uagb-marketing-btn__align-text-center uagb-marketing-btn__icon-before\" id=\"uagb-marketing-btn-bc07d9fd-afab-465d-bd82-96e12407b527\"><div class=\"uagb-marketing-btn__wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addkenmerken.net\/en\/category\/life-stories\/\" class=\"uagb-marketing-btn__link\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener \"><div class=\"uagb-marketing-btn__title-wrap\"><h6 class=\"uagb-marketing-btn__title\">View all submitted life stories here<\/h6><\/div><div class=\"uagb-marketing-btn__prefix-wrap\"><p class=\"uagb-marketing-btn__prefix\"><\/p><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since a few years Melissa knows she has ADD Hello, I saw on the Facebook page that you could tell your own story about ADD,...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[552,1131,1506,1155,1162],"tags":[5,33,739,46,738,288,732],"class_list":["post-8114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-levensverhalen","category-add","category-add-adhd","category-medicatie","category-volwassenen-met-add-adhd","tag-add","tag-depressie","tag-drugs","tag-medicatie","tag-relatie","tag-ritalin","tag-studie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.addkenmerken.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.addkenmerken.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.addkenmerken.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.addkenmerken.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.addkenmerken.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.addkenmerken.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.addkenmerken.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.addkenmerken.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.addkenmerken.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.addkenmerken.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}