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One of the cruel jokes is that medication can fix a big portion of this issue, but you keep forgetting to take the medicine....
Be real cool if they had liked a dermal extended release or something.
Medications also have side effects, some of them are really bad. And some meds make people angry, or change your moods quite a bit. I don't like them, so I've stayed away from them for a while now after having tried like half a dozen different meds. Then I did a genetic test to see what meds would mesh well with my genetics, and it turned out there were only like 3-4 decent meds for me out of all the meds available.
Can you tell me more about the genetic test please?
You'd have to ask your primary care doctor about it. Sometimes they can do the test in-house, which is just a cheek swab of saliva. Other times they require a psychiatrist to do the test. I didnt have to get a psychiatry referral since mine did it in the office. But you might, just have to see how your doctors office does it. And sometimes insurance doesn't pay for it. Out of pocket is like 300 bucks for the test.
It doesn't go to a third party company then? Is this in NA or Europe? Insurance makes me guess USA?
I already went through the trial and error process to find the ones that work for me but it's great to hear others won't have to go through that
This is in the U.S., sorry, should have specified. And yes, the genetic testing is done by a third party company as far as I'm aware. I had to sign a consent form for them to use my data in research projects. (Which i could take away consent at any time).
And (I found out the hard way), the genetic testing is often not covered by insurance at all
This is very terrible advice, but if you have raw dna data available (from like Ancestry or whatever) there are programs that will tell you what alleles you have on whatever gene you specify. You need to be able to interpret what you find, and there's a lot of statistics involved.
Or worse u dont take the medication despite wanting to because u know once u do u will have to stop doing what ur currently doing and ur enjoying whatching yt and stressing about not doing shit.
Interesting, I enjoy my life so much more once my meds kick in. Maybe it's because I'm so consistent with taking them.
Ditto and I'm about 95% consistent now.