Poor Sleeping Habits

I appreciate the four ways ADHD interferes with sleep.  I hadn't thought about it that way before.  I hope you'll write future columns about dealing with each of these demons. I would like to hear from readers whose sleep has been affected (positively or negatively) by medication.

Thank you,

Cathi Zillmann, NPP

Greetings.

 

I would like to share my own experience with ADD and how I discovered a natural cure.  I had all of the classic symptoms of ADD and I would consider my case to be severe.  I was held back in the first grade due to my ADD and during that time period ADD was unknown or at least not labeled.  Today, I am completely cured and hope my information could help someone else.

 

Through research via libraries, bookstores and, the Internet I have discovered a natural cure that consists of the following vitamins and supplements:

 

In the morning I take the following:

Note: Avoid all sugars.

 

1. One (high quality) Daily Multi-Vitamin

2. One Twin-Lab 100mg DMAE capsule (Only take during the morning hours)

 

At noon I take the following:

Note: Drink plenty of water for good absorption

 

1. Three 1000mg Salmon Oil capsules

2. One Twin Lab B Super Complex capsule

3. One 1000mg of vitamin C

4. One 1000mg Calcium-Magnesium

5. One 50mg Zinc

6. One 100mg Alpha Lapoic Acid

 

At night I take the following:

 

1. One (high quality) Daily Multi-Vitamin

 

These vitamins and supplements have changed my life as I am able to focus, concentrate, have less anxiety and, I am able to sleep much better.  I have experienced no adverse side effects from taking these vitamins and supplements.  I would recommend to anyone to try this natural cure first before taking ANY drugs.

 

I hope this helps.

 

OneVeryGoodMan@Gmail.com  (From Kansas City, MO.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ari -

I could have written that blog myself.  I find that I stay up late because of procrastination, hyperfocus and racing thougts.  When my husband is out of town on business, I can stay up to two or three a.m., knowing darn well that I will be hating life when the alarm sounds at 6 a.m.  He has learned to remind me to "go to bed." While it feels childish at times, I know he has my best interests at heart.  I am sending the link to this blog to my husband and will print a copy for my psychologist.

 

Thank you!

 

 

People with ADD/ADHD often have sleep problems, displaying the signs described by Dr. Tuckman. What we often forget is that people with sleep disorders often have similar signs, and may also have difficulties with executive functioning, like people with ADD and ADHD.

 

This presents a dilemma in diagnosis and differential treatment. As an ADD adult with intermittent sleep problems, I know that it is sometimes very difficult to know which comes first, or whether it matters. But I also know that people can have both ADD/ADHD and a sleep disorder. So sometimes we not only have to figure out which came first, the chicken or the egg, but whether its really the chicken and the egg, and which came first doesn't make no nevermind.

 

And all this time I thought it was the three energy drinks I had at dinner....

 

Really good article. I never thought of the points that Dr Tuckman mentioned. Well done, and useful.

 

 

I can identify with all of the reasons mentioned in the article for not getting enough sleep. Another reason that was not mentioned is that some medications for ADD/ADHD can keep you awake if taken too late in the day. If I get up late on the weekend, I usually skip my medication for the day. If I take it around lunchtime, it keeps me from going to sleep at night.