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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 185260" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>My layman's guess is that you and your child were a victim of FastADHDDiagnosis Syndrome. Unfortunately, if a kid shows hyperactivity and defiance at a young age we usually go to a pediatrician or a counselor and get the good ole standby ADHD/ODD diagnosis. and are given stimulants as the answer. </p><p>Sadly, nobody tests our kids or does intensive evaluations unless we know enough to insist on seeing a neuropsychologist, who knows that hyperactivity/impulsivity/inattention is prevalant in a host of disorders, not just ADHD. My son got worse on stims too. Guess what? He didn't really have ADHD as his core issue. He is on the high functioning autism spectrum and has gotten tons of help and is doing great on NO medications (yes, he ALSO is better off the medications).</p><p>It never hurts to get a neuropsychologist evaluation before you put your kids on medication. I sure would have, if I'd known about them way back when. Unlike the "counselors" and even Psychiatrist who listened to me and made a snap diagnosis (without much testing) and threw medications at us, maybe my son would have been spared the whole spectrum of medications he had taken and all of his misdiagnoses. So this doesn't surprise me at all. in my opinion give up the stimulants until you have him evaluated by a neuropsychologist.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 185260, member: 1550"] My layman's guess is that you and your child were a victim of FastADHDDiagnosis Syndrome. Unfortunately, if a kid shows hyperactivity and defiance at a young age we usually go to a pediatrician or a counselor and get the good ole standby ADHD/ODD diagnosis. and are given stimulants as the answer. Sadly, nobody tests our kids or does intensive evaluations unless we know enough to insist on seeing a neuropsychologist, who knows that hyperactivity/impulsivity/inattention is prevalant in a host of disorders, not just ADHD. My son got worse on stims too. Guess what? He didn't really have ADHD as his core issue. He is on the high functioning autism spectrum and has gotten tons of help and is doing great on NO medications (yes, he ALSO is better off the medications). It never hurts to get a neuropsychologist evaluation before you put your kids on medication. I sure would have, if I'd known about them way back when. Unlike the "counselors" and even Psychiatrist who listened to me and made a snap diagnosis (without much testing) and threw medications at us, maybe my son would have been spared the whole spectrum of medications he had taken and all of his misdiagnoses. So this doesn't surprise me at all. in my opinion give up the stimulants until you have him evaluated by a neuropsychologist. [/QUOTE]
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