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 Hi everyone! I just made an account on this website and I wanted to introduce myself.  I am a newlywed (married for almost a year), legally blind, 980 HD, 21-year-old woman.  I am also a student pursuing my degree in social work. I came on here for two reasons; first, to let you all know that you are not alone. My husband suffers from ADHD, and we are currently trying to navigate those challenges.  I can empathize with both sides; with the non-80 HD spouse, the anger, depression, frustration, hopelessness, self hatred, and hatred for your partner.

I have been recovering from a bad sinus infection for quite some time.  My wife just came down with one.  She wanted to rest yesterday afternoon.

During that time, I worked on dinner--simmering corned beef and prepping roasted potatoes.  I also did a ton of the backlog of dirty dishes.

Our 10 year old was watching tv.  I went upstairs, and when I came down I found some ice cream out. I asked her if anyone said she could have ice cream and she acknowledged that she had not asked permission.  I told her she should not have it before dinner and I put it back in the freezer.

I sat with anger long enough, until she told me her real name was grief.

I've been really sick the past week.  I missed two days of work because I was coughing so hard.  My sinuses are finally draining, and it feels like my brain is leaking out of my nose.

It's been 2 years since I've been with my SO and i'm seeing more and how his ADHD is affecting us and my son ( different dad) .
 Most recently it's been financials and i get that we haven't had much coming in and have had to move funds around to manage/budget the household. 

I just read this weeks “weekly tips”.  I will say that I feel that both ADHD and ADHD partners of the victims of a terrible network of physicians, physiologist and psychiatrist that take health insurance. I work for a very large company that provides top notch physical and mental health coverage for my husband and I. I recently have renewed hope that an ADHD savvy doctor(s) could help save my marriage.  I contacted many just to find out that they don’t take my heath insurance.  None of them!! Not one!!   The avg 1st time visit is around $400 and then a high hourly rate thereafter.

A new study on the combined impact of maternal ADHD and emotional dysregulation finds that, unsurprisingly, these comorbid conditions negatively affect a woman’s parenting behavior.

BY LILLY CONSTANCE

https://www.additudemag.com/adhd-emotional-dysregulation-parenting/ 

My best friend - it took us a long time to become best friends.  We met online and at some point exchanged phone numbers. Over a several year time span, it was me who did all the initiating of the friendship. I called. I sent messages.  

My husband has been on MANY adhd meds.  None of them worked well and I'm also not convinced he took them daily for any length of time .  The medicines that worked the best kept him from sleeping at night even when dose was altered and he took them in the morning.  Some meds just made him very angry and short tempered which was horrible.  I'm trying to convince him that medicine can help and is not the enemy but he is frustrated from trying.  We definitely need a more methodical approach to tackling the correct medicine match.  I don't go to the doctor with him.  I think he gives up on some

I'm just reading about genetic testing through GenOMind.  It may be too good to be true but they claim with some genetic testing with a mouth swab a doctor can better prescribe adhd meds.  The correct kind and the correct dose.  My ADHD husband has been through so many I can't even remember all the details over the years of trying.  This sounds like a great fit for getting a better outcome.  Does anyone have any success or failure stories with genetic testing?