Gleevec - CML & ADD

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Does anyone on this list have ADD and take meds for it with Gleevec?

Just curious. I am taking a test currently since I believe I may be - or is

it just Gleevec brain? All the symptoms have just gotten worse over the last

few years. Or is it that it seems more obvious since I am aware of the ADD

symptoms?

I would love to be able to be able to feel normal - whatever that is....

I feel great physically... hardly any side affects after 4 and a half years

of Gleevec.

I have been on anti anxiety meds (xanax) for 5 years now and it helps for

the first few hours after each dose but could I have always had ADD?

I told the doctor that life has been a bit overwhelming for me for sometime

so that he doesn't just dx me with it without knowing all the facts.

I cared for my only sister who died of AIDS in 1994. Then my sister in-law

died and I have been raising 2 of her children since 1998. The youngest

doesn't even know I am not his real mom...Dx'd with CML in 2000, and lost my

son at age 18 in 2002.

I have had to work full time during all of this since the man I have been

married to for 26 years (the father of my biological children) has been an

alcoholic and unable to provide for any one other than the industry that

makes his alcohol...I thought he would have saw the light after loosing our

son but life is even darker for him now - he just drinks even more.

I guess I am confused since I am really not sure if I am ADD or if all of

life's events have just had some additional affects on me.

Trust me as hard as all this has been for me, I have been blessed to find

the will and a reason to get up and keep on keeping on. And no it hasn't

been easy.

I hate to be diagnosed with one more thing but all the symptoms on the check

list for ADD- I have. And it sure would be nice to feel some what normal if

I could.

I guess my real question is: do we know of any problems mixing the 2

medicines? (Gleevec & ADD meds)

Feel free to write me off list if you want or post to the group. Whichever

you choose is fine with me.

Who knows maybe I am not the only one who feels overwhelmed and confused all

the time. Magnesium was helping out for a while, but not anymore.

Thank you and happy holidays to everyone!

ez