Newbie in need of advice | ADHD Information
I was the first one to say "My son will NEVER be put on Medication" but sometimes I wonder if it will HELP!!!I am lost right now!!! My 9yrs.old daughter(she will be 10 in 2 mons.)has been on Concerta 27mg for one and a half year.She was diagnosed as ADHD when she was in the end of her 2nd.grade year.Her problem is attention and receptive and expressive language difficulties.When she started taking the med.years ago at first time, I noticed her difficulty of sleepin at night,but that symptom lasted only for two weeks and since then she has been doing very good. However,I always feel guilty to remaind her about her med.every morning since I know about some side effects of the med.and lomg term abuse. Sometimes, I feel that I am too abused by this med.,because, it is very sad to say, I no longer trust on my daughter without med. I often talk to my daughter's teacher and special ed.teachers, and volunteer in her classroom to get to know how she is doing. Also I help my daughter's homeworks and studies for tests to maintain to get average grades(80%) . Often I have to teach her from 0 at home if the school subject is not her interest(she does not listen well on science). I am worried about her future and constantly frustrated,too. The other day, I arraged a meeting among parents with ADHD children. Talking our anxiety is really help. We are on the same boat !!My son is 7, and was diagnosed with borderline adhd 1/05. I have decided for now to keep him off the meds. I been reading books and trying to get as much info as possible. At school, the main complain from his teacher is that he talks alot, and he is always calling out. I do agree, he does talk alot. He is always asking questions. he gets distracted at school, or is talking and will forget to bring a book here and there, One good thing is his grades are very good. during school meetings, I feel as if they are a little pushy about giving him medications, but I have told them since the begining, that I will try everything alse before I do that. We are trying check lists and reward system, and we have good days and bad ones. The best thing I can say is just take it one day at a time. The hardest thing for me is when he says he has no friends, or other children don't like him. I just brakes my heart, I always tell him he could talk to me about anything, and try to emphasize on the good things about him, he is a sweet boy. I just pray that things will get better.
MarisKeller,
Was your daughter going to sleep ok before she started taking the metadate? My son was on metadate for a short time he had problems sleeping. He was tired during the day and had trouble going to sleep at night.
I have a 10 year old son who has been diagnosed with ADD and was placed on Concerta 18mg, once a day. My son also was diagnosed with Absence Seizure disorder one year ago and takes Kepakote, two pills in the morning and three in the evening. My son demonstrate all of the typical characteristics of ADD. In school he is unable to complete his in class assignments and is often kept in from recess to finish his classroom work. It had gotten to a point where I would pick him up from Latchkey and have to go back to his classroom go over his assignments in class and make sure he had all materials needed to complete his homework at home, because he would forget things all of the time. 5th grade has really been a challenge for both of us. Robert, my son, will have good days and bad days at school. Robert started taking Concerta 18mg about a month ago. Robert was so upset that he had to take another medication, that he begain saying that he was dying and he felt like he was a really sick person because he had to take all of these pills. I felt really bad because my son was right, he was taking 6 pills every day, 7 if I include the vitamin he has to take due to low iron. In the 2 weeks that Robert took the Concerta, I can say that I noticed a difference in him. He seemed more focused, not has scattered, and remembered things better. I use to have to remind him every day to take his medication for his seizures, during those 2 weeks, I had to remind him only a couple of times. Robert does not think that taking the Concerta has helped him. I try to keep the lines of communication open between myself and Robert so that he understand exactly what is happening with him. It took alot for me to accept medication as a solution and I sometimes feel like 7 pills a day is to much for a 10 year old boy. So after only 2 short weeks Robert no longer takes the Concerta. I am back to square one, his attention span is 0, he forgetting things, not completing classroom work and forgetting homework assignments in school. I am frustrated and scared for my son's success in school. He will be entering 6th grade this year and it will be a whole new ball game. I really just don't know what to do, any suggestion would be great.
I have a seven year old son that was diagnosed with ADHD about 6 months ago. It seems soo hard to get him to do his homework!! Is there anybody here that can maybe give me some advice on " How they get there children to do it"?? & nbsp; Thank You
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I have a daughter who is 8 years old and on 20mg of Metadate CD. I don’t think this has been helping because she still has problems keeping up with the rest of the kids in her class. The teacher has only been requiring her to do half of her work in class and take the rest home to complete.