Swimming is great for dodgy knees. If you can afford it, buy a waterproof mp3 player and listen to it while you swim to help with the boredom. (Obviously, it doesn’t have to be music—put anything on there!) I wish I could buy one of those.
Waterproof mp3 player? Hadn’t thought of that. I’m going shopping. There are only so many miles I can run before my knees wear out and more cross training (that isn’t boring) is always good.
surprisingly simple physical therapy exercises + cycling has done wonders for my knees. i also take a glucosamine / chondroiton complex, and ground flax seed for omega 3s, but i’m not sure how much credit to give them.
I didn’t find any that consistently worked. I’m pretty sure at this point that my problem wasn’t ADD at all, but rather depression. I’m currently on lamotrigine, and my attention problems have greatly improved. All the stimulants seemed to help some at first, but quickly lost their efficacy. (Except the Strattera, which didn’t help at all.)
I did that for a while. Unfortunately it’s incredibly mentally painful for me—intense boredom. Also, I have weird knee problems.
Swimming is great for dodgy knees. If you can afford it, buy a waterproof mp3 player and listen to it while you swim to help with the boredom. (Obviously, it doesn’t have to be music—put anything on there!) I wish I could buy one of those.
Waterproof mp3 player? Hadn’t thought of that. I’m going shopping. There are only so many miles I can run before my knees wear out and more cross training (that isn’t boring) is always good.
If exercise is boring, get a good MP3 player and some audiobooks.
Or with sufficiently loud and raging music, you might be able to get yourself in a state where you don’t think, just keep going.
Works for me. Not really for swimming.
surprisingly simple physical therapy exercises + cycling has done wonders for my knees. i also take a glucosamine / chondroiton complex, and ground flax seed for omega 3s, but i’m not sure how much credit to give them.
That sucks.
Out of interest, which of the stimulants did you find the most useful?
I didn’t find any that consistently worked. I’m pretty sure at this point that my problem wasn’t ADD at all, but rather depression. I’m currently on lamotrigine, and my attention problems have greatly improved. All the stimulants seemed to help some at first, but quickly lost their efficacy. (Except the Strattera, which didn’t help at all.)
I’m on Lamotrigine myself. Great stuff.