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Post by Douglas on Jul 28, 2004 13:42:59 GMT -5
Is regular stimulation of your metabolism a factor in the severity of your ADD/ADHD, or that or your partner? Does your physician or counselor encourage it?
Does it help? A little, or a lot?
What sort of exercise do you do, and how often? do you have a sense of the before-and-after, with regard to its effects on your symptoms?
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Post by rosyred45 on Jul 29, 2004 7:34:39 GMT -5
Thinking about it, yes it does help. It helps more in the self esteem department for me and then kicks in from there.
I was doing the Richard Simmons Sweating to the oldies until out VCR decided it didn't want to work right, so now I just try to fit in small weights and stretching while I watch TV.
And if I'm doing dishes or something, I keep my calves in check by standing on my toes an d stuff like that.
But the movement and such get me motivated to get things done around the house
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Post by Linda on Jul 29, 2004 7:58:37 GMT -5
I think exercise makes a big difference whether you are ADHD or not...I know when I am feeling really stressed or restless.....I walk and I walk fast.I can't tell you how calming it is.It helps a lot!!! Paul bikes and I can see a difference it makes when he comes home...The hyperness is gone....he is just plain tired!!!  |
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Post by catatonic on Jul 29, 2004 9:19:12 GMT -5
Yes, I'm more focused and organized when I get up and get my exercise first thing in the morning.
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Post by Allanque on Jul 29, 2004 11:28:29 GMT -5
I'll let you know when I'm really allowed to exercise again. Can't breathe right now. Going up to Denver for THREE days of allergy testing next week.
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Post by eaccae on Jul 29, 2004 14:04:30 GMT -5
Yes and no. It makes me feel physically better for sure! Those endomorphines are a great natural high! And theoretically the endomorphines should definitely help with the focusing! I find though for myself that it can go both ways - sometimes I get hyperfocused and other times I find that I have way too many things going on in my head right after exercising and I am actually spinning around more. That is one reason I exercise every night. I workout every night for a good 1 1/2 to 2 hours and the first thing I need to do is zone out - watch tv, read a book, watch a movie - to calm my brain down!!
Oh yes - and the exercise I do is both cardio and weight training. I have to add that I have some major hormone imbalances and I don't know if that affects anything. I know that I can't have anymore childern and that I have to work out everynight in order to maintain my weight - that losing weight would probably take a major illness - so I don't know if that would actually affect my results.
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Post by jdmom on Jul 29, 2004 14:32:56 GMT -5
I'm not the best one to be answering this question. I'm not a very dependable exerciser.  But I do play softball in the fall (we've started practicing, our first tournament is next weekend). And I can tell you one thing, on the nights that I play ball, I am so wound up when I get home that I can't sleep for hours! I don't know if it's just the adrenaline or what. Even the days that we've been in tournaments all day, I'm so bone-tired I can hardly move, but I just can't rest. |
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Post by catatonic on Jul 30, 2004 7:58:17 GMT -5
Allanque --
Are you going to National Jewish in Denver? I know they've had the top rated allergy program in the country for 5 years running now. A friend took her son up there this winter. He kept going into anaphylactic shock (hauled off 9 times by ambulance over the course of a little less than 4 months) and they had absolutely no luck diagnosing the problem here. Told her it was idiosyncratic. She thought they were full of you-know-what so spent 12 days putting her boy through testing at National Jewish. On day 12 they discovered it was ibuprofen. Now he wears a medic alert bracelet and my friend tells everybody who will listen (and plenty who don't really care) that National Jewish is the best hospital on planet earth. Great place for allergy treatment.
Of course, if you're going somewhere else, you can just ignore all that.
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Post by Allanque on Jul 30, 2004 11:06:10 GMT -5
The place is just listed as "Allergy Clinic" after the guy's name in the yellow pages on Yahoo. Mom went to him a few years ago and loves him to death. He does drops instead of shots.
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