ADHD - Describe the first time meds helped you

In My Humble Opinion
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I know, another ADHD thread. I have browsed all that I could find, but wanted a little more specific information.

Some background: I have learned a ton about ADHD in the last two days. I always joked that in gradeschool I was ‘ADD before it was cool,’ and attributed my problems studying to something similar. I never seriously considered myself to have ADHD.

I am getting ready to apply to a graduate program. I managed to hack my way through undergrad (as a non-traditional student) with abysmal study skills, but I was worried about the greater challenge ahead. To be perfectly honest, I was wondering how I could convince a doc to get me a scrip just to help be sit down and study for more than an hour at a time.

So…started looking into ADHD on Monday. And damn. Everywhere I looked, I found me. Read through every thread on the Dope, and related to most of the posts. So, to the doc I go.

What’s my question, then? Well, there are posts here and there about how amazing it was to be able to sit and study/work/read whatever. I want to know more details! Tell me exactly what it was like, what you felt, emotion etc., the first time you sat at your desk and got stuff DONE all day. What have you noticed since then?

I always kind of figured my problem was a character flaw. I can’t imagine what I could accomplish if I am right about ADHD and it can be managed.

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I don’t have ADD but my daughter does. The first time she had the medication was at the doctor’s. We were talking in the car on the way home. It was the easiest conversation I had had with her up till then. At one point she said: “Wow, did you see the box by the side of the road back there? I saw it, but we were talking, and I decided I’d rather keep paying attention to our conversation than think about the box.” She was quite pleased and a bit surprised that she was able to do that.