Mom really need help please! | ADHD Information

Well, I can only share my experience with my 6yr old son. He started on Adderall XR(5mgs) in January.He had small inprovements.On our second Dr. appt. the doctor increased the dose to 10mgs. I have seen major improvements at his school and at home. His behavior is much better.Before the meds,he had been suspended from school twice and removed from the class room twice. This all in 2 months time. The children in kindergarten are graded on a Green Face ( good), Yellow Face (1 bad choice),Orange Face (2 bad choices), and Red Face (3 or more bad choices) scale.He was only bring Red Faces home before meds and now I am happy to say that we are in the green. The only down side to the medicine that I have found is that he doesn't want to eat(while on it) and he has a problem  going to sleep at night sometimes. I do not give him the meds on the weekend or holidays unless I need him to be more focused.He will eat me out of house and home when he doesn't take the meds, so , weight loss is not a concern. We take things day by day. Routines help us stay on task. Also I have reduced his sugar intake and have cut caffine out compleatly. Hope this helps.Best of luck.i have been on it since november. she's only 7 so you don't
really need to know this, but it's extremely difficult to maintain a
low speed when highway driving while on adderall. not that
that matters. anyhoo the only side effects i've experienced are
an unpleasant taste in my mouth (basically, it feels like i need
to brush my teeth no matter what i do or how much gum i
chew). that lasts from the time it wears off until about...
anywhere from a few hours to a whole day. it sucks when it
lasts a whole day but it's well worth it in order to do my work.

the other thing that i've noticed is that my dreams are REALLY
REALLY VIVID. i have always been a deep deep sleeper and i
could count on one hand the number of dreams i remember in
my lifetime. in the past few months i wake up every morning
and remember two or three dreams. not just what happened in
them, either. i could tell you the color of the carpet in the room i
was in. i remember every little tiny minute detail and they are
usually really weird dreams. not usually disturbing in any way,
just bizarre. although there was one where i lived in a society
where it was illegal to be a christian and i was martyred. i was
actually um... beheaded but anyhoo there was a dock and i
was waiting for the ferry to heaven. after the beheading part it
was REALLY cool but yeah. still weird.

it really reallly really does help me get my work done, though. it
doesn't just help me stay focused on something i'm doing, it
actually makes me want to do something productive. if i finish
my work before it wears off i actually start cleaning or
something because i have a very strong desire to do work.oh yeah it really makes you not want to eat. you can feel that
your stomach is hungry but the thought of chewing and
swallowing food is absolutely repulsive. you have to time it so
she eats before she takes it in the am and it wears off by
lunchtime and then she takes it after lunch. most likely she will
lose some weightI found that Adderall XR worked like a charm for our son who's 5. He had no side effects, was attentive, and was no longer impulsive. The dose became too weak for him as he got bigger so his psy. changed meds. She wanted him at a constant level of attention, not just a few hour burst of it. ANYWAY, the Strattera is now working pretty well, but only after a lot of changing to the doses. No matter what Strattera does though, I don't think anything will work like Adderall did. It was great. I just wish his doc would have kept him with it and increased the dose.I really do not know where to begin,as many of you know my little girl has been through many medications and were still struggling.I took her to see the pshc doc today adn she was on clonidine 3xdaily and melatonin 1mg at night,it was helping her sleep(all the time,to where she never had sleep on concerta),but it was not helping her focus in school only sleep.Today they told me to try adderall xr 5 mg x 2 daily plus 0.1 mg of clonidine and melatonin 1mg at bedtime.Please if anyone has any info on adderall please respond right away.I am reading and it dont look good but please respond and be honest.

Sandra