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Date Posted: 23:54:23 08/11/09 Tue

Does anyone know if there is a link between dyslexia and being ADD/ADHD??? Doctors want me to try all these different medacations for my add, but they aren't teling me if it is going to affect me and my dyslexic problems...

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Author: Emily [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 15:55:40 09/07/09 Mon Hi - I have just finished reading a remarkable book called "The LCP Solution: The Remarkable Nutritional Treatment for ADHD, Dyslexia & Dyspraxia". It's written by a nutritionist with a family history of dyslexia. It recommends nutritional therapies instead of pharmaceuticals. I highly recommend it. Good luck! Emily

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Author: Gary [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 20:22:34 09/08/09 Tue I also was diagnosed with dyslexia at an early age. While here recently, I was diagnosed with having ADHD. And the doctors want to put me on medicine. Have anyone had any good results taking Ritalin?

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Christine
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Date Posted: 20:11:19 09/20/09 Sun

The only link between dyslexia and ADD/ADHD is that 40% of people with dyslexia also have some form of ADD/ADHD.

The medicine may work for you or it may not work. We all have different brains so what works well for 1 doesn't necessarily means it'll work well for the next.That is also why there are so many different ways to teach someone who's dyslexic.We use different location in our brains to help us read,write,and learn.
I am taking Adderall XR and it does work for me. I am dyslexic and have ADHD. It doesn't help my dyslexia. It helps me concentrate on things, when before; I couldn't pay attention even if I took a loan out.
Unfortunatly, I don't know anything about the LCP Solutions. I do plan to read it.
If you're looking at nutrition, it does help the body work better. You could have a sensitivity to certain foods that could result in ADD symptoms, that sensitivity most doctors would say is an alleric reaction or a sensitivity to a food. FYI:Stress will also make your symptoms worse.

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Author: lee [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 09:37:21 11/05/09 Thu I read many artcales that state that some believe that ADD, ADHD and dyslexia are coused by a leation in the brain so if you have one the chances are you have another. and no the medication with not help your dyslexia other than help you foucuse more.

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Author: Randall Van Gorder [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 20:16:08 11/13/09 Fri Meds dont help we are diffrent to me that is a good thing. Its not easy. you may look at them with the problem im 55 did large cap. hvac for 22 years once you get it you get it and can excell

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damefrank
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Date Posted: 15:33:04 01/03/10 Sun

Medication did not help my daughter's dyslexia in the least. Find another alternative if it troubles you is my suggestion. ADD isn't such a bad thing from my perspective as the mother of one and partner to an adult one. You are multi-tasking and can channel that...I bear witness to this!

How many people do you know who can read while the TV is on and the kids are running circles around the house and still answer the phone in a calm, focused manner? My partner with ADD could do this whereas I would go nuts! smile

[> Subject: Re: ADHD & Dyslexia connection

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wendy
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Date Posted: 21:42:42 04/03/10 Sat

Dear Someone

I have ended up with not coping with both since a traumatic event in 2004. It was not until the event did my disabilities and an inability to cope surface. I was aware of the pervasive ADHD in most of my family but did not seem to suffer the symptoms. The dyslexia was also masked by some "gifted" ability akin to photographic memory. I always describe the processing as looking from another part of my brain i.e. the back of my head. Once I was severely traumatised I lost this ability and all of the disadvantages and symptoms of both dyslexia and ADHD came to together to present another load of unwanted challenges as I had winged things until then. Anyway as I suffer with both I felt to say I know why the two are likely to coexist as it is the same part of the brain that was fried during the trauma and that is likely to be the region where the wiring is different that causes our symptoms. I was a very active person before my injuries which is a major way of keeping the symptoms at bey. Ritalin sends you on a roller coaster and as I am adverse to taking medication and psychiatric control I ceased taking it. I searched for natural alternatives and commenced a course of native remedies formulae for ADHD which I found kept me calm so that I required less stimulants. However the ADDult Focus formulae which I then chose to help with study has had the opposite effect where I can not relax and need stimulants constantly. Meditation also helps but takes a large effort. My recommendation is triathlons I never felt better if you can do them to control both lots of symptoms....Anyway all the best Wendy

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Author: mark kane [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 04:02:11 04/05/10 Mon Look for my name on the left side of the page, I have posted some info you will want to read.To answer you in short. YES Dyslexia is the Mother of all learning disability's.ADHD come from some one in the family tree who has dyslexia.