Schuring Schoop: Follow-up and more learnings about ADD

I have been medicated for 11 days now.

Here are some learnings I have gathered in that time.

I lost 9 lbs in the first 8 days. Nice, but not so nice too! I will spare you the one gross detail I have been dealing with, just imagine that I got dehydrated the first week.
The first day, I was awake for 18 hours and then barely could get 4 hours of sleep total.
However, the second day, it wore off after 9 hours, precisely at the beginning of Relief Society. I became very irritated. This certainly confused me.
Day 3, I experimented with 30mgs and liked that better.
Summary: began on 15mg a day, after 2 days I went to 30mg, after a week, I tried 45mg. 30mg actually feels completely normal now and my appetite is back by 50% at that dosage.
I now take melatonin at night to get better rest.
I read the book, Healing ADD by Daniel G Amen
I had more than 20 people reach out to me and give me real solid support.
I found out that I have many acquaintances with their own types of ADD and we share some similarities.
Some people go off medicine and add in exercise and vitamins. This is interesting to me, I already did exercise a lot and take nutritional supplements.
If a child is diagnosed, then there is a 60% chance a parent has ADD. If both parents have it, child has a 90% chance of having it.
Head injuries, toxic exposure, early infancy neglect or abuse, druge abuse, lack of exercise or poor diet can contribute to ADD
ADD teen girls are more sexually promiscuous.
Video games cause pleasure, increasing dopamine release but later cause a problem for children when they need to focus on school and have less neurotransmitters available
White flour and sugar diet as well as video games and television - have created poor health habits contributing to ADD.
My friends in India have never heard of this, they don't have it there... very interesting.
Other behaviors such as OCD, bi-polar, Tourette's, depression, manic-depression, anxiety - can all have many similiar characteristics as an ADD person.
The brighter the child, the later a person is diagnosed. This is because many will overlook the disruptive behavior if intelligence can offset it.
Most ADD people eventually hit a wall., as I did!
They can see ADD in brain scans, there really is science behind it.
ADD children do not want to keep getting into trouble, they just can't control it.
Some people can simply take St John's Wort to gain some traction to their symptoms
Other common medications to aid in brain control can include Prozac, Ritalin, Effexor, Risperdal, L-Tyrosine, Dexedrine, Carbatrol, Depakote, Neurontin, Tegretol, Wellbutron, Concerta, Paxil,
Knowing your type of ADD is critical to pairing with medication or supplements
ADD is a generational disorder, meaning that ADD in one family member significantly influences the development of each member of the family.
Drug and alcohol abuse are common in ADD patients - again, the brain is drawn to it
Overfocused patients are drawn more to alcohol abuse because it can settle restlessness
Many marriages can't survive ADD, if gone untreated or undiagnosed
Many ADD patients play mind games because their brain is looking for an effect or a settlement and doesn't know how to find it.
Often, the harder an ADD person tries to concentrate, the worse it gets.
Protect yourself from head injuries, this is really important at any age
You can get real neurofeedback treatment to understand your brain.
Sleep deprevation or poor sleep habits, increase symptoms.

Health

I no longer crave sugar
Could my low protein vegan diet have set off my ADHD to a higher more chaotic pattern?
Do I need to add in more protein and in what formats?
Continue to keep toxic stuff out of my system, such as caffeine, nicotine and alcohol.
Get enough calcium, zinc, magnesium
Eat more black and kidney beans
Get enough healthy types of fats
Don't drink juice, it is just sugar
B vitamins are very important
Focused breathing or yoga - very helpful

Here are some characteristics that I know about myself, that I didn't know could be related to my ADD.

I think I have overfocused ADD (deficiency in serotonin and dopamine). Many times the symptoms of dopamine deficiency include hypothroidism, low blood pressure, low body temp, cold hands and feet, restless leg syndrome. Possible suggestions could be St John's Wort and L-tyrosine.

As an elementary kid, I always blurted out inappropriately without consequence. Fortunately, I was a good student, but I was always in trouble for my mouth.
When things don't go my way, I often explode.
My angry outbursts throughout my life, even in public, have been embarrassing. This is due to the brain desiring stimulation.
Impulsive
Enjoy arguing or stirring things up. (however I thought I did this for thought provoking change to take place)
Very irritable when things in my house are not just 'so'
Really not into being touched, generally.
Wait, you mean people really can read books without being 100% aware of their surroundings? I don't get lost in my books, ever. I do love to read though, but not in my final stage of my worse case scenario - I couldn't read at all during that timeframe.
I walked at a very young age, 9 months and learned how to walk in a traveling vehicle.
Am criticized for worrying too much
Tendency to hold strong to my opinion