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My ds is also 6 years old and for years he had the same issue. His OT told him to tell him that mommies ears hurt and they can't listen anymore. This way your not telling him that he is talking to much, your putting the problem on yourself with your ears hurt. I thought ohhhh what a wonderful way to put it... It didn't work he would then start to make noises. Things got much better with meds, but now we need a meds change and he is doing it again. I was at my breaking point on Thursday. I yelled and put him in bed and told him no more words!!!! No yelling from your bed for me, no yelling what time is it etc. The next morning I felt like the world's worse mom. DH can tune it out, but I can't tune it out and he just keeps going and going and going and I know he can't help it, but I can't help the fact that it grates on my last nerve. Dr. should be calling back on Monday with a new dose and we will cross our fingers. Your in my thoughts and hopefully the new meds will help with the non-stop chatter

Have you tried any alterntives in addition to the medication? I don't know if this will help or not with the motor mouth but I give my son magnesium which is a clamer when he is wound up after school. Check the alterntive board and then talk to your doc. We use something called Kid Calm which is magnesium citrate. BTW My son takes adderall daily.

We increased his Concerta from 18 to 27mg. We see a difference so far. While he still talks a lot, it is NOTHING compared to the other night I wrote about. His appetite has picked up and he is eating everything in sight .

My DH still thinks that he is a little hyper, which he is, and that we should try the next dosage up. I see that he is easily "hyped" up and hard to calm down but his thoughts are more "clear" if that makes sense. We will wait 2 weeks and then I will call his DR and request the next doasge up. I would like to see him on 36mg. I think that may be the right dosage for him. DH thinks he is right now and that we just need the token system for behavior management. I guess I will see what his teacher thinks of his behavior.

btw, thank you to EVERYONE for your support and understanding. I was trying not to be a bad mother, trying not to snap when he was doing that the other night. I know he could not help it but I was teetering on the edge!!!

It is a good idea to try the next dosage to see if the results are even better. If they aren't you can always go back down a step.

As I read these posts, I just had to smile.....my problem with Chase is somewhat different...before he was on meds (and before meds kick in) he was a slowwwww talker. He would begin to tell a story, and between the pauses, the repetitions, and the 'umms', it would drag on forever....during these stories, I would catch myself holding my breath while waiting for the next word to come to keep myself from supplying the words for him. It became a kind of inside joke between myself and my adult daughters.....if he was telling one of us his tale, the other would mime 'breathing' from behind Chase's back...otherwise I would literally catch myself holding it!

On meds, he still tells long stories, but with fewer pauses and verbal tripups, so it is easier to listen and enjoy his imagination.

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My son has diarrhea of the mouth. Today, again, he pullded 4 out of 5 tickets for talking in class. We went to run errands and he talked non-stop in the car. We would ask him to be quiet repeatedly and he would say ok, only to start up again 10 seconds later. He would ask a question, get an answer, ask the same question again in a different way as if I was too stupid to understand him and again, we would ask him to be quiet. Finally, I snapped and told him to just stop, very loudly, I might add. With this, he started to cry and said that we were being mean to him and hurt his feelings. I told him that it was not my intention but that he needed to control his mouth and STOP TALKING!!!!!

When we arrived home, I had to put him in his room for 20 minutes just to keep myself from melting down. He came downstairs after we let him and the mouth started again. I actually thought about putting tape on his mouth just to shut him up. I felt like I was going insane. After he went to bed, my dh looked at me and stated that he was emotionally drained from the constant chatter and I had to agree. I dont understand why my son cannot just SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!He is starting his new dose od Concerta in the morning and I hope it makes a difference. The dr changed our meds and we are titrating up. I pray that this helps or I have to wait another 2 weeks until we raise the meds again and by then, I might be insane.

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Poor thing

This is such a sign of adhd. Poor guy, he obviously is not where he should be medication wise. Your son has no control over this, he talks impulsively. I also know how hard it is to keep your cool as a mother, I too have to remind myself. Mornings are the hardest time of the day, waiting for the meds. to kick in. My son shows all his immature ways, but once the meds take effect, what a world of difference, even in his maturity.

I would definelty increase his meds. My son is 9 and at 72 mgs. of concerta, as well as 1 mg. guanfacine. He takes both of these in the morning and is all set for the day. If he has a practice or something that he may find overstimulating, then we give him a half of guanfacine to control that.

I hope you get his meds where they need to be. And If you think of it, if this is your only complaint, you are really lucky!

Many regards!!

My son has always been a talker, very vocal. It seems to me that about 30-45 minutes after we give him his meds, he starts talking nonstop. It only lasts for a few minutes, but it is like during those few minutes he cannot control it. I do pretty well with controlling myself and just calmly answering or commenting on what he is saying, but it is very short lived.

longsally,

remember how I said I feel your pain, and I do, especially tonight. From the moment I picked him up at the sitters house he has been nonstop!!!!!!!! Talking and touching or playing with everything. He hadn't even taken off his patch at that time. I think there are just some days that the meds don't work. Well I did the wonderful, loving mom thing tonight, went to Sonic (that does not happen often) bought supper, came home and turned both kids over to dad. I am now about to lock myself in the bathroom.

My youngest will ask the same question over and over til I tell him I can't answer it any other way. One of his teachers when he was in early intervention said that he had too much information going into his head and that it was a way of understanding all of it. Something like he was trying to organize it all and needed help doing it. I have told him he is making my head hurt and that stops him most of the time. Other times I try to make it a game with him to see how long he can be quiet or not talk. Most of the time this is in the car when we play the quiet game.

The poor little one he probably cannot help it. My child has her days when she is non-stop too. I would talk to the doctor about what is going on and good luck with the new dose. we tried the quiet game but he could not do it. He would look around the car, see his brother smiling at him and then yell out that his brother lost when in fact, he was the one talking again. I am NOT kidding, he could not go longer that 10 seconds!!!! I was strectched to my limit with him tonight.I feel your pain. Though some days when the meds are working good and Ty is really quiet I have to go and talk to him just to hear his voice. Crazy huh. Pray for one thing, get it, then reverse yourself on what you wanted if only for five minutes. Sometimes I think that I need to start seeing a psychiatrist/psychologist too. I think all of this ADHD is really making me insane. Well I guess on the bright side of that, when he is in a nonstop talking mood and I am nuts we can just babble on and on together and then he would probably be the one to tell me I talk too much. lol

well, my DS's teacher told me that she thinks my ds can control himself when he wants to so I warned my son to behave. Then I went to pick him up and he had pulled 4 tickets again for talking. I made him go to bed 1 hour earlier and would not let him out to play with his friends. I warned him if he did not control himself and I picked him up again and he pulled that many tickets, I would have him write lines "I will not talk in class". I picked up DS today and the teacher told me that he only pulled 2 tickets and that she was very strict today as well.

I pointed out to my ds that the meds just help him make better choices but that he is in control of his body and will have to control himself. I mean, one ticket was for burping in class as loudly as he could. That is behavior as far as I am concerned, not ADHD. Any thoughts?