Been a long time - I have a meds question | ADHD Information

Adderall XR.Have you tried the Daytrana patch?  It provides medicaton as long as the patch is attached, so is more even throughout the day.Also look into Concerta. We just switched our daughter from Focalin with a
Ritalin booster. It's the same stuff but has technology to make the extended
release last longer and dosing more even throughout the day. It has
definitely helped her meltdowns. Sorry to sound like a drug commercial, I
swear I don't work for Big Pharma!My son was recently diagnosed with ADHD.  I feel bad because I  knew for years he had issues, but tried to just deal with it, until he reached HS.  My son is 14.5 yrs old and was all over the place.  Today was his first day taking a low dose of Concerta.  he told me he feels like BLAH!!! Well what he actually said in text after wrestling practice, I feel like sugar honey iced tea.  being paranoid type I immediately asked him to elaborate, then he said like BLAH!  Is this normal?

Hi everyone, it has been a LONG time since I have been on this board.  I guess that means that for the most part things have been going very well for my 9 year old son, who was diagnosed with ADHD when he was 4.

As much as I don't want to do it, I think we need to look at a meds change.  He is doing well at school and during his normal days - he takes 60mg of Metadate CD in the morning, with a Ritalyn booster in the afternoon.

Where we are now having problems is with extra-curricular activities that fall outside of the normal day.  I don't mean to sound like I am bragging, but my son is a very talented athlete - he is athletic and coordinated in nature, and he has the passion and intensity and internal drive to push himself to the limits in order to be "the best".  I think that many of those characteristics come from his ADHD.

What we are finding is that he has so many peaks and valley's with his current meds, that it is very hard to figure out when to give him his meds when he has after school practices, games at various times during the day on the weekend, etc.  If we give him his meds too close to game time, he loses the spark and intensity that make him such a good player - if we don't give him meds before the games he can't focus on the plays and/or he goofs off too much and is too impulsive.  And it is very hard for him too, because he is never the same from one practice to another or from one game to the next so he is constantly having to try to adjust to the varying levels of meds in his system.

Has anyone else experienced it, and been successful in switching to a different med that would last for a longer day without the peaks and valleys we are having?

 

 

 

 

 

My son is 11 and takes medidate cd at 60 mg too.  We started giving him strattera a couple years ago and that helps with his hyperactivity.  I have been having some problems at school this year, but upped his strattera to 60 also, and he seems to be doing better.  We give him the strattera a few hours after the medidate and that helps in the afternoons when the medidate starts to wear off.