Last 2 weeks where great, what happend? | ADHD Information

So you have or haven't started the meds yet?  What med is or will it be?  And why don't you see the dev ped for another two months?

 

I know the apprehension you are going through. When my daughter was in preschool I got the calls about her behavior, the tantrums, throwing furniture etc. For the most part they could work with her but there were several times when I had to go pick her up. I had no idea what was wrong with her. I was so anxious about her starting Kindergarten and how she would behave.

When Kindergarten started things got 10 times worse for the first couple months. I finally got her diagnosed and treated and things are so much better. She can sit through a lesson, she can read and do math tests and make it through most days without having a meltdown. I still get a call once a month or so but not every week anymore.

Take solice in the fact that you have figured it out before school starts and you will have a chance for medication to help before school starts. It may make a huge difference in your sons behavior.

I wish you all the luck for easier times ahead.

I'd worry after you see the NeuroPsych. You'll know more what is going on then. They tend to do better with diagnosing than dev. pediatricians. Don't worry in advance. If it were me, I'd hold off meds until he sees the NeuroPsych, due to my kid being put on tons of meds he didnt' need. He was misdiagnosed a lot.

My son (4.9) saw his first ped developmentalist and is now officially diag. The doc suggests meds and we are going to do it, he has to get blood work done first...no prob! The problem is we dont go back to this guy for 2 months! 

It was really going great for a lil while, about 2 weeks of no bad reports from school and relatively managable at home. I get to school today and his teacher looked at me and just shook her head...apparently yesterday wasnt great either. His teacher wasnt in the room when I picked him up then so she didnt give me the low down like she normally does. He was running around the whole class and hitting people and knocking things down while doing it, climbing on furniture, and he also was punching people in the stomach, even a GIRL!

He attends Head Start and is there full day, they are very accomodating but I think that we are going to get a rude awakening when he starts kindergarden in the fall. They know how he works...he works pretty well with leverage. They made this paper chain and hung it on his cubbie, if he hits anyone or just manhandles someone, he loses a link, there are only 5 links. When they are all gone the other kids in the class said they will not be his friend, I doubt that will happen because he is the most popular kid in the class...but its a good thought.

My big fear is that they are not going to work with him like they do know when he goes to school in the fall. I am trying to tell him when he hits someone he will have to go to the principals office or get kicked out of class, the teacher is going to write letters to me to let me know how his day was...im just trying to let him know this has to stop!

Has anyone had this issue with some accomodation befor school then kinda stepping into reality? Im alittle scared of "real" school!

The district is suggesting an intergrated kindergarden class which im deffinatly going to do, im just really scared.

The ped. dev. also said from the tests he gave my son he feels he has some learning disabilities, I already made an appt with a neuropsych to try to figure this out. In 2 weeks we are going to another ped dev. and a psych...all in the same day actually. That will be fun for the psych seeing my son at 6pm after running around all day, he will be in demon mode! Poor guy!

The first ped dev. we went to...I didnt like that much, something about him seemed cold and yet effictive. He gave him some test and stated that he is deffinatly ADHD and seems to have some LDs. My son has received OT for about 2 years now, it has helped but not as well as you'd think.  His father has undiagnosed LDs so its not far fetched for my son to have them too.

He gave us a script for blood work and told me to make an appt for 2 months...thats it. He left it at that. I told him my kid is running around my house so much he sweats and is beat red, he bounces off the wall at school and climbs furniture, he cant transition from one thing to the next without hitting one of his friends, his moods can go from one extreme to the next. I dont think he is bi-polar or anything but the moods can be horrible.

From reading all the posts on this site, i've gain alot of insight but also alot of worry. Im scared that my son will get the wrong meds and go off the wall, not too sure I can handle that. My younger son(3) has Spina Bifida and Club Foot so he has his own set of issues, being punched in the back because he has his brothers game boy game isnt a fun thought. I know when he has the right meds, he will be the sweet and sensative boy I know and love, its just gonna take a while. Hes also very smart, I just want him to succeed...like all of our kids. Just needed to vent, Thanks.

Thank you for the encouragment, I guess it was just an abrupt end to a lil vacation