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my son is 9, is on zoloft for anxiety and moods, and vyvanse 30mg for focus at school. we are on month 3. he is great at school gets good grades never gets in trouble, and then he gets home and explodes on me and his dad. he goes into fit driven rages over something he doesn't get to do or have. basically he thinks he owns the place, very disprespectful. he was never like that with other meds or before meds. i am definatly tell the doc but has anyone experienced this?spamula39537.3399537037

epokey:  what are you using to carry your DS through to bedtime?  we go through rebound which varies from no obvious transition to very adhd behaviors to jittery to weepy. i've tried snax, etc. but it's so variable.  however, my ds does have some sleep probs with stims so i don't know that more stims late in day will help.

but, just wondering....  thanx

Our son has never been on Vyvanse, but we have experienced the blow-outs similar to what you are referring to.  He would have great days at school & our evenings were horrible.  We finally figured out that it was due to rebound and once we adjusted the timing of his meds, so that they carried him thru to his bedtime, our evenings are great.  As it turned out, about the time we got home from after school care, his meds were wearing off & he was struggling coming down off the meds (rebound) and it caused him anxiety, anger, frustration, you name it.  Now that his meds carry him thru to bed time, he experiences rebound after he's fallen asleep.  Fortunately for us, we don't have any sleep issues along w/this, some do.  If the timing of the Vyvanse is important for the morning, maybe there is a short acting "booster" he can get at the end of the day to help him thru the evenings??  Just a thought.

Spamula,

I was just wondering how your son was doing on the Vyvanse when I found this thread!  Your son and my Will started about the same time I believe.

I am so glad you bought this up.  We are experiencing the SAME thing.  Will is having tantrums, very bad ones, and is rude, disrespectful and just ugly.

  I do believe it is from the Vyvanse.  A friend of mine's son is also having the same problems and now you are the 3rd person I've heard of.

He isn't doing any of this at school, only at home.  So much so that I'm wondering if we have ODD or even BiPolar!  I'm hesitant to change from Vyvanse because we like how he's doing in school, and Will likes not having to take another dose at school.

Let me know what you decide..

YES i AM ALSO INTERESTED IN A SHORT ACTING BOOSTER FOR VYVANSE. PLEASE LET US KNOW.

I'm really scared! My son, who will be 7 in July has been diag w/ADHD. No surprise there! He has always had horrible meltdowns, but not that he's on Vyvance,(going in week 4) they're 10x's worse. He's even having them during the middle part of the day. We can't go anywhere as a family anymore. Yesterday it was time to leave a birthday party and he started to melt. He threw his tantrum for 3 hours. Sometimes he hurts himself. He has now started to calm himself down after an hour or so, but then he asks for me to apologize for disciplining him.

The school says he's done a 360 and think that with an IAP eval in Sept he will be able to catch up quickly.

How do I handle these meltdowns! I don't want to put him on another medicine or label him as bi-polar this young (runs in the family).

 

 

Like I stated in my post, our son has never been on Vyvanse, so I'm usure of what or how to give a short acting booster, best to ask your Doc.  In our situation, our son uses the Daytran patch and we were putting it on him right away at 7am each day, as it takes a couple hours to begin working.  By 5 or 6 in the evening, all hell would break loose & he would be completely unmanageable & irritable.  We discovered by accident one day, that if we put the patch on at 10am, it carried him until bed time & our evening was wonderful!  So, now we have the school nurse put his patch on at 10am and he gets a short acting Methylin right away in the morning, which carries him thru until his patch starts working.  We have found it's a great combination for us & the timing works well.  Maybe it would benefit you to ask about a short acting smaller dose of something to take in the afternoon that could help ease the rebound?  Just a thought.OUR THERAPISTS THINK IT IS HIS ATTITUDE THAT NEEDS ADJUSTING AS IF HE WERE BI-POLAR OR OCD THING WOULD SHOW UP AT SCHOOL OR OTHER PEOPLES HOUSES. THEY NEVER DO YET AT HOME HE IS A MONSTER. WE ARE WORKING WITH A THERAPIST ON THE BEHAIVIOR MOD STUFF FOR A FEW MONTHS AND HE IS DOING BETTER. HE HAS NO SIDE EFFECT OTHER THAN THESE MELTDOWNS AT HOME. BOTH THE PDOC AND THE THERAPIST THINK IT IS INCONSISTANT PARENTING(TRUE) AND WE NEED TO COME TOGETHER MORE AS A TEAM AND NOT LET HIM GET AWAY WITH SO MUCH. SO FAR SO GOOD, HE IS RESPONDING AND THE FITS HAVE BECOME LESS ALL THE TIME.

Actually Kenny has his meltdowns anywhere. I just took him to the dr b/c I was at my end. He's been out of control all day (it is a teacher work day so no schoo). The dr gave us the smallest dose of Alderal? to get him through the afternoon after school. He has lost almost 2lbs in 3 weeks so he may not be able to take anything at all. I got him a psych appt but I have to wait almost 3 weeks! It's impossible to find psychs that take insurance!