SO frustrated!!!!!
Mom of two, Adderrall will make a bipolar child, if he is one, pretty crazed. It is likely to throw him into a child's version of mania, which is not like adult mania, but rather rageful, angry and even violent. It can even cause kids without bp to get that way. It did to my son and he's on the autism spectrum (first dxd. ADHD). If you are looking at different disorders I have a link for a site that deals with every childhood disorder, not just ADHD. I like it there because the moms have been through the ringer and tend to be very smart with good advice.
Here is a link to a childhood bipolar site. It isn't that great, but the Learning Center is helpful, although a bit simplistic. There are message boards and most of those kids sound like the more violent kids on this site and are dxd. with bipolar.
Here is a site, an excellent one, about pediatric neurological disorders
I hope they all work. I do think they are all worth a look. Good luck and remember knowledge is power.
Keep us posted.
I am just REALLY anxious for next week to get here because he has his eval on Monday. I have been waiting FOUR months for this stinking appointment. I really hope they are helpful. They didn't really help at all with my younger son AND completely missed his SPD!! Just a few more days!!! I, too, had my ADHD 10 year old on Adderal xr 20 mg last year. His anger has always been an issue, so it took us a while before we realized that the meds made it soooo much worse! We took him off in May; he started school two weeks ago without it. Behavior disrupts are still there, and small amounts of non-anger-management. But, not so extreme without Adderal xrYup, it just seems like once he gets on a dose high enough to help the ADHD issues it makes the anger/violence much worse. I am not sure what to think. I think my hubby is wondering what kinds of things I am teaching him with all the nasty words he is saying. I haven't taught him ANY of them!!! I have no idea where he is getting it. See in my case the adderall and ritalin seem to help minutely and the pdoc wonders if he is comorbid with bp and we are doing depakote to see if it helps.... My son is a lot like yours momoftwo and I know what you are going through the anger comes out of nowhere sometimes and you are least expecting it.....My son had a very nasty attitude on Adderall- we took him off and he went right back to his normal sunny disposition. I am so sorry what you are going through. I don't have any advice but you just have to keep on searching and reading and trying to find the right answers for your boy. And I know that is just what you are doing. Chin up, better days.Okay, sorry bad idea momoftwoboyz, is there anything else you can do to
maybe get it through his head not to act that way and there are
consequences???
our son doesn't even understand that word. I seem to have to explain all things to him.Oldmember, what do you mean?? Like do you have to explain step by step
what could happen if he gets into trouble? I have to do that to my son
when he has a meltdown, this is what's going to happen......... so on,
and so on...
wow your son sounds just like my son... i'm sorry that you are having a hard time.. but i agree with psm if your son is bipolar then adderal will only make things worse... my son took adderal for 2 days and oh my god he flipped out.. then the doc. gave him ritilan and the same thing happen... so we know now that he isn't adhd.. i wish you luck... I think it would be easier if it were more clear cut if it was obviously causing his outburts I wouldn't hesitate to take him off. The problme is it has made him SO much better is the other areas. We went out for dinner tonight to a restaurant with 13 people. We were there 2 1/2 hours and he sat in his chair and was coloring quietly and EATING the entire time!!! He could NEVER have done that without the meds. He is usally all over the place during our get togethers. Not to mention he had NO outbursts today. In fact he has been on this med/dosage for 5 days now, he only had outbursts on two of those days. I sure wish that it was clearer.
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