I am 40 and have known I have had AuDHD for a decade but don’t decide to do anything about it till last year. I ended up on the Right to Choose and I have tried four different medications so far, both stimulants and non-stimulants and they have all been horrible. I am at the point now where I think I want to pull out and just be unmedicated. Life unmedicated is horrible but medication is also horrible.
I don’t want to keep doing this dance. Is it possible, do you think, to go unmedicated but be stricter with diet and exercise and routine? Perimenopause has made things a lot worse but HRT also didn’t work for me (horrific insomnia which is saying something as I’ve had insomnia for 20 years) so I’m on the combined pill and after three weeks it has had no positive or negative affect on me whatsoever.
I don’t know what to do. I am drowning but the medication seems to set me on edge and does absolutely crazy stuff to me. Would I be ridiculous to choose to come off the pathway?