my son was emotional the first week. after that it gradually got better. he will still cry but its not excessive. i think the 1st few days he cried about nearly everything. he also seemed really shy. i really like this med. we have taken it for 6 weeks. working great so far. he did have prob with appetite and sleeping but he has had these effects with other stims. also a few tics. sniffing mostly and maybe a coughing one but that could be allergies or a cold not quite sure yet, but def sniffing tic. worse with concerta though. good luck. hope he has a good weekend. i have put alot of how my son reacted in other vyvanse posts. feel free to ask me questions about our experience.

kim

My son has been on it for 2 weeks. He still cries a lot and seems a lot more sensitive with me. He barely has an appitite until about 7:30 at night.

I didn't know the sniffing thing was a tic, but he has been doing that a lot to. Makes DH mad...guess that'll have to stop.

And the only other thing right now is his tummy hurts. But the doc said that should even out.

yah i didnt know that sniffing was a tic for awhile. it drives us crazy. our dh has a cough now and the sniffing is less frequent. i would def take it over the coughs any day. went to the dr today and they said he doesnt have allergies so it must be from the med. prety sure they are both tics. we just started tenex for them and a few other things. hopefully it will help reduce them. also my son is still emotional now and then but not at all like in the beginning and nothing serious. it should even out.

kim

well we have ruled out allergies for my ds. he saw his pediatrician last week and she checked him out pretty good. on the papers we got from the pharmacy that tell the side effects of these meds it says that sniffing can be a tic. all tics are not muscle spasms. some ppl have vocal tics like clearing there throat or coughing. my sons adhd dr said maybe he had a habit cough but we have tried all the suggestions to stop the habit and nothing seems to help. she agrees with me that it is indeed a tic. it also started right after putting him on vyvanse. he has been on it since the end of july. i wish the cough and sniffing were from something else other than this med b/c it really works well for his behavoir.

kim

i also tried to put my ds on 20mg to hopefully reduce the frequency of sniffing and coughing and it has not made a difference for us. he has to def go back to the 30mg bc 20 does nothing for his behavoir! he has been pretty wild lately!i really wish the lower dose wouldve worked for us.

Every child is different. Sniffing can have so many root causes. My daughter had a sniffing tic for a while. And yes it was a tic. She has a few different tics and that is one of them. She sees a pediatric psychiatrist who specializes in mood disorders and ADHD. We stopped the med she was on at the time and the sniffing stopped, along with the blinking, scratching, among other tics.

THAT does NOT mean every kids who sniffs has a tic of course, nor does it mean every kid who sniffs doesnt have a tic.

Come on here, the point of message boards is to put your own personal experiences out there and people wo read them need to then address their own personal situation and needs. NO ONE should assume a diagnosis of tics or any other medical condition form others experiences, every situation should be checked out by a physician.

ok i just want to say that a pediatrician is not the person that prescribes adhd meds for my son!! he also goes to a childrens hospital at the university of iowa specifically for his adhd. it called iowa university childrens hospital center for disabilities and development. i do not need the phone number for your dr as we have seen several drs here that specialize in adhd. i also am not saying that if any child has been sniffing that its automatically a tic!! of course they could have allergies or post nasal drip or a cold or many other things. my son did have a sniff before these meds but while on meds it became worse. esp with concerta!! we stopped the concerta and his sniffing went back down to normal. when we put him on vyvanse it started to become more frequent again and now has basically turned into a cough. the reason for him seeing a pediatrician was for his 7 yr old check up. we had her check him while we were there for any allergies that could be causing the cough or sniff. we did not ask her if he had a tic. obviously i would not ask a pediatrician about tics. we already go to someone tha specializes in adhd. we have ruled every other reason out for his symptoms and have narrowed it down to a tic. that doesnt mean that your daughter has a tic. i was only telling of our experience. some ppl have serious reactions and problems from these meds and i have no reason to with hold our experience just in case someone might get scared. it is reality that things can happen to our kids when they take these meds. some of our kids have strange reactions to them like coughing or sniffing and why not share that so other ppl will know if their child experiences that it may possible be from this med. i sure wouldnt think this med would cause my child to cough or sniff but i have also read about other kids that have this and know that my ds is not the only one. i dont look to this board for medical advice. i also dont assume that just b/c another child has something going on that its the same for my child. the papers from the pharmacy that come with this med stated something about sniffing and coughing being a tic. if i could find them i would quote them for u. we will be getting a refill next week so if u want i could scan it put up a link for u to see. maybe u were not trying to make me upset but its basically like u are calling me a liar and saying my son does not have a tic from this med b/c coughs and sniffs arent tics. isnt that what u meant when u said u have to speak up about untruths? that im telling lies? well, i have been told otherwise from a reliable dr. and as u can see other ppls kids have had these tics and other ppl kids are having sniffing with vyvanse and other stims. maybe its all just a big coincidence that they all have the same habits? tics are not only limited to muscle spasms and twitches or movements as your dr calls them! also its funny that u assume i only take my child to a pediatrician and make the comments of would i take my son to ped for a heart problem. u have no idea how many evaluations and test my son has gone through before we even decided to put him on any meds! i am not a careless person or mother when it comes to my kids. are u going to get mad at everyone that tells about their childs experience of how meds worked for them and call them a liar?

kim

I don't really know what is going on with this thread because AMom2Two has deleted her posts.  But, it sounds like she said some pretty offensive things.....one being that coughs are not tics.  I would like to share a story about my dd.  She will be 7 next month and has just been diagnosed with ADHD with anxiety in the past month.  I have known something was different about her since birth.  When she was two years and 4 months old, in Feb. of 2004, she started with a chronic cough.  Since then, she has had 2 chest xrays, a blood panel allergy test, 2 CT Scans of her Sinuses.  She has been treated for chronic sinus infections, acid reflux, chronic bronchitis, asthma and allergies.  She has taken Singular, Claritin, Augmentin, Amoxicillin, Zithromax, Prevacid, Prilosec, Zegerid, 6 different cough medicines, and hundreds of breathing treatments.  We even tried taking her off of milk products.  We bought a hypoallergenic mattress and pillows for her.  We changed our filters in the heating and cooling system to the most expensive ones.  None of these things ever helped.  She has been seen by her pediatrician and a pediatric allergist.  In Jan. of this year we drove her 3 hours away to Cincinnati Children's Hospital to see a pediatric ENT and a pediatric gastroenterolgist.  She was put to sleep and the ENT looked into her airways and the gastroenterologist looked into her GI tract via an endoscopy.  The only thing they found wrong was a very small ulcer in her small intestine, everything else looked perfectly normal.  In 4 and 1/2 years, there is no medical reason for her chronic cough.

Now fast forward to the last month.  I have done so much research on ADHD and anxiety that I am convinced that this chronic cough was a tic.  She started this cough when she was 2, one month after we started her in daycare.  I think back to other times when her cough was horrible.  1)  The week before and after her baby brother was born  2)  When we went out of town for 10 days to Disney World  3) Her first month of Kindergarten   4)  The week before she started first grade.  These were all times of great stress for her, even though she is just a little girl.  I can't prove this cough was a tic, but my gut feeling as a mom who knows her little girl better than any doctor out there knows it is. 

BTW, she was on Concerta for one day and Vyvanse for three.  It was horrible.  But now, she is on day 12 of Strattera and things are looking much better.  I have never seen her smile and laugh so much in her entire life.

Sorry to throw in my two cents, but IMHO, A COUGH IS A TIC.......But, I'm just a mom, not a doctor.

thank u for sharing your story! i didnt realize she deleted her posts. im not the kind of person to argue with ppl or really even care what ppl say on the computer but i cant help but take things to heart when its about my son. im doing the absolute best that i can do. i go by what my dr tells me and what i have experienced or researched. i like to share our experience b/c i feel like there are other ppl out there that can relate or may be able to use our experience to help them find answers or point them in the right direction. my intentions are not to come on here to put ppl down or hurt anyones feelings.

anyways im sorry your dd has a cough. we have only had to deal with this for about a month now and i cant imagine years. its already starting to drive us crazy. we are hoping the tenex will calm it down b/c the vyvanse works so well for him. but if it doesnt then im afraid we will have to try something else. if it was a diff kind of tic, a more serious one like maybe a muscle spasm or twitch or something then we wouldve taken him off asap. i feel the same way as u about how we know our kids the best. when my ds took concerta he started to pee the bed. i asked everyone if they had heard of concerta causing this and no one seemed to find any link to it. there are kids on it that do indeed pee the bed but most had been doing it b4 meds. i just had this feeling that for us it was the med. he took it for almost 2 months and atleast 3 times a week peed the bed. as soon as we took him off he didnt pee the bed again. i think alot of times are instincts are right. mostly with my ds his cough is just one loud cough. not like coughing where he has something in his throat. although now that he has had it for a while it is turning into more than one cough at a time. i think he has a tic and that another part of it may be habit and thats why its happening so much more now. he doesnt do it at all when he is sleeping and does not sniff in his sleep neither. i feel like when everything else is ruled out and the only thing left is a tic then most likely thats what it is. one thing i do know for sure is that its def from this med or this type of med. maybe he is the child that will have tics with any stim. lets hope not!

kim

oh and with the sniffing his nose is neither runny or stuffy! i have told him to try and blow his nose and nothing comes out. the sniffing is less frequent now than it used to be. maybe the tenex has already started to slow that one down or maybe the sniffing is just changing into a cough. i have heard that some kids outgrow one tic and it will change to another one. if so lets hope this cough goes away soon!