Posted by Chris O on March 6, 2005, at 23:43:10
In reply to Re: Are brain SPECT scans useful?, posted by alohashirt on March 6, 2005, at 19:20:30
Alohashirt:
Thanks for the feedback. As I think I said in the first post (or maybe I did not), I have not gotten a scan so far because I figure that I can just experiment with meds on my own. In addition, being as that they are not accepted by many psychiatrists, I just kind of decided against it. My diagnosis is not ADHD, but the exact opposite: GAD, OCD, panic--all the things in that direction.
If anything, my insides are way "overactive," not "underactive," as they would be in ADHD. Anyway, I was just interested in finding out if any others on this board had had the scans and how they felt about them.Muchos gracias again,
ChrisMy pdoc, who is part of a multidisciplinary team that specializes in ADHD said he thought the results were uncompelling so far - too early to be very useful. He related one experience of a patient who's diagnosis was missed. One part of the problem may be that Amen himself isn't involved in the day to day interpretations of the scans.
Do you expect that the results fo the test would change the likely treatment regime? Do you have an ADHD diagnosis already?
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