Introduction

[TracyandMarc]

Hello from beautiful southwest Colorado. My name is Tracy and I am a 42 year old mother of two. My wonderful and amazing husband of 22 years was diagnosed with ADD when he was just a boy, back in the 80's ADD/ADHD was not commonly heard of let alone treated. At this time there was one doctor in our small town that had studied and researched ADD/ADHD. He was placed on Dexedrine and continues to do well on it. My 13 year old daughter was officially diagnosed at 7 but we knew she had ADHD at about the age of 3 if not younger if we look back to some traits she had from birth. I was diagnosed with ADD at the age of 39. I had to go through the long and exhausting testing to make sure since I was an adult. My doctor thinks that maybe I've had ADD my whole life but was never diagnosed due to it not rearing its head until I became extremely sick with something nobody could diagnose for several years. My doctor thinks that due to the constant stress and anxiety of not knowing what was wrong with me caused my ADD to become more apparent than in the past. Until recently we thought that our 16 year old son was the only "normal" person in our family,however; just recently one of his teachers told me that sometimes it's as if he is daydreaming when he should be working in class. We might end up being a family of 4 with ADD/ADHD. I have no idea if having a whole family with ADD/ADHD is unusual or not but as far as I'm concerned it makes us pretty amazing.

Tracy

[MarySI]

Love ADHD