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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 405031" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>As vyvanse is a stimulant, skipping the medication on the weekends will mean more problems those days but not more on days she has the regular dose. Stims are fast in and fast out, meaning that they don't build up in your system the way other medications do. If/when difficult child is on other medications, this can NOT happen. Mom NEEDS to give her the medications the way the doctor prescribed them. There have been quite a few kids at our schools who have had some real troubles because they were put on strattera (SSRI medication that works for adhd for some people) and continued skipping weekends and other days the way they did with stims.</p><p> </p><p>Do you know WHY mom isn't giving her the medications? My fear would be that mom or someone in her home is saving them to take herself or to sell. Around here you MUST sign a medication contract with your doctor if you are going to be rx'd a stimulant or pain medications or a benzo. It says that you will ONLY use the medication as the doctor rx'd it and you will only get the medication from that one doctor and you will only use one pharmacy. You also agree to not get rx's for that kind of medication from any other doctor for any reason. Finding that a parent wasn't giving the medications every day is grounds for refusing to treat a patient again and most docs here follow this esp strictly when they have pediatric patients on stimulants.</p><p> </p><p>Do you go to the psychiatrist wtih biomom? Or is it your husband and biomom or just biomom or just you or husband? If you don't attend the appointment, fax a letter to the doctor with your concerns, including wanting guidelines for weekend medication adjustments. Also say that you know the mom is giving less medicine on the weekends and could this be causing some or all of the behavior problmes that she is having? It will likly open up discussion between the psychiatrist and biomom, if nothing else.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 405031, member: 1233"] As vyvanse is a stimulant, skipping the medication on the weekends will mean more problems those days but not more on days she has the regular dose. Stims are fast in and fast out, meaning that they don't build up in your system the way other medications do. If/when difficult child is on other medications, this can NOT happen. Mom NEEDS to give her the medications the way the doctor prescribed them. There have been quite a few kids at our schools who have had some real troubles because they were put on strattera (SSRI medication that works for adhd for some people) and continued skipping weekends and other days the way they did with stims. Do you know WHY mom isn't giving her the medications? My fear would be that mom or someone in her home is saving them to take herself or to sell. Around here you MUST sign a medication contract with your doctor if you are going to be rx'd a stimulant or pain medications or a benzo. It says that you will ONLY use the medication as the doctor rx'd it and you will only get the medication from that one doctor and you will only use one pharmacy. You also agree to not get rx's for that kind of medication from any other doctor for any reason. Finding that a parent wasn't giving the medications every day is grounds for refusing to treat a patient again and most docs here follow this esp strictly when they have pediatric patients on stimulants. Do you go to the psychiatrist wtih biomom? Or is it your husband and biomom or just biomom or just you or husband? If you don't attend the appointment, fax a letter to the doctor with your concerns, including wanting guidelines for weekend medication adjustments. Also say that you know the mom is giving less medicine on the weekends and could this be causing some or all of the behavior problmes that she is having? It will likly open up discussion between the psychiatrist and biomom, if nothing else. [/QUOTE]
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