I had the son who responded to chocolate. His blood sugar was low, which is probably the case for most having rebound, due to not eating. Once he ate the sugar, it helped ease him off it. He then would realize that he was hungary and he would start to eat dinner.
Thanks for all the good advice. Will try the caffeine /chocolate. Im sure Ryan wont complain!!
Since I may be looking at some residule rebound from the vyvanse, what do you guys do to help ease it?
Any ideas, thoughts, would be helpful.
One thing I do notice is that Ryan is often crabby and irriated when he comes home from afterschool care becuase he doesnt eat much during the day. His appepitite comes back full force around 6. I know his blood sugar is probably low then too. If I give him a snack(granola bar, juice, crackers, a cookie) he perks up considerably, although still asking for dinner.
my dd does not realy get rebound, but i have seen other post about giving them chocolat!
Exercise really helps my daughter. On days when she has basketball or soccer, we experience less issues. She is in a much better mood and more productive in the evenings.
Snacks also help - though I have a hard time getting my daughter to eat until the med's are worn off. She's big into carbs - bread, chips, pretzels, popcorn, etc. I will sometimes just let her have what ever she wants to get her started eating and then sometimes I can slip in some protein.
food and excercise seem to be the best. excercise is tough this time of year depending on where you live. Some people are against caffeine (which is fine), but it does help...........hot chocolate, tea, soda, you may not want to do this every single day, but those days you think he needs help. If its an ongoing daily issue you cant resolve you should look at his meds or med combo.For us, adding guanfacine is what made our evenings manageable. Guanfacine is the generic for Tenex. It mainly is a blood pressure medication, but it also helps control impulsivity and hyperactivity (not attention).[QUOTE=BL Moretti]Spamula:
You keep posting that your 9 year old will not take his meds. I have to wonder what is his thinking? What if you made an agreement that once school starts, he tries them for a week and keep a diary. You can write it for him if he hates it. You can record grades trouble in school or lack of trouble. Rate each day on a scale of 1-5. Then keep the same thing on a non med week.
Does he say he does not like how he feels? That should be a daily notation or if he thinks other people can tell make note of what they said or expressions, respect his fears in this test.
Tell him he is probably right in his decision. But... ask him to humor you for this one last test.
Then both of you can see why he has a problem. If you work together and the med are his way to help himself... I really thing kids older that 6 or 7 have to be involved in these decisions. You will have the test weeks to refer back to. If you decide his med is not the right one the two of you can agree to try another...
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He has stated to us that he lost his personality on FocalinXR and he did. He also felt uncomfortable with the loss of appetite during school(being different). So we know why he will not take them now and we see the psych next week, hopefully he will come up with an answer as we have many restrictions with meds such as not swallowing big pills, allergic to bandaids (Daytrana) as well as as soon as meds bother him he will rip off he said, and he had HIGH anxiety. So with all that said we are going to address the situation now that we know why he won't take them (by the way this is a recent revelation)
I am so glad he will finally talk about it... Hopefully he can find something that can work. My son has had a few occasions where he wanted to try a day of school with no meds. I always agree and he comes home saying it was a really bad day! Spamula: