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<blockquote data-quote="EB67" data-source="post: 54741" data-attributes="member: 3750"><p>Thanks Jannie...</p><p></p><p>By the way taking note of your signature I see that my 7 1/2 year old Seb has a few things in common with your 7 1/2 year old difficult child...</p><p></p><p>Anyhoo, yes, Melatonin is a life saver. He's been on it while on stiulant medication since the fall. I worry though about long term use and so I thought that a stimulant-free summer would mean a melatonin-free summer as well. Sigh.</p><p></p><p>Without Melatonin, Seb will stay up reading until around one or two in the morning. No joke. Seb's hyperfocus piece of the ADHD is reading: he'll lock into a book for hours. When we take away his reading material at night he finds new reading material. Before Melatonin we were considering removing all books from the second floor of the house! Which is crazy as I know we're all supposed to be overjoyed when our children love to read. With Seb it's over the top. Even during the day. Yesterday he sat on a lounge chair on the patio and read without pause for four solid hours.</p><p></p><p>He has not had any ongoing negative side effects with the Daytrana that I can sense so far other than loss of appetite. His sleep is better with Daytrana than it was with Adderall XR. He has had some mood regulation issues but fewer again than with Adderall and he doesn't have the same horrid rebound reaction in the evening that he did with Adderall either.</p><p></p><p>As for camp today, this is rich.</p><p></p><p>I just picked him up-- he was unusually subdued. He said he was disapointed because the kids in his group were disruptive and seemed uninterested in learning about the animals (it is natural science day camp). He said that they weren't serious, were disrespectful and did not follow the rules.</p><p></p><p>Whose kid was that just talking?</p><p></p><p>Oh, it must have been Son of Daytrana.</p><p></p><p>I wonder how the day might have gone without the big D.</p><p></p><p>The downside is that he said he couldn't eat anything because "the thought of food made me barf". This isn't such a great thing as the kids spent the better part of this 80 degree day hiking.</p><p></p><p>I still don't know which is worse: an unruly kid or a malnourished kid.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EB67, post: 54741, member: 3750"] Thanks Jannie... By the way taking note of your signature I see that my 7 1/2 year old Seb has a few things in common with your 7 1/2 year old difficult child... Anyhoo, yes, Melatonin is a life saver. He's been on it while on stiulant medication since the fall. I worry though about long term use and so I thought that a stimulant-free summer would mean a melatonin-free summer as well. Sigh. Without Melatonin, Seb will stay up reading until around one or two in the morning. No joke. Seb's hyperfocus piece of the ADHD is reading: he'll lock into a book for hours. When we take away his reading material at night he finds new reading material. Before Melatonin we were considering removing all books from the second floor of the house! Which is crazy as I know we're all supposed to be overjoyed when our children love to read. With Seb it's over the top. Even during the day. Yesterday he sat on a lounge chair on the patio and read without pause for four solid hours. He has not had any ongoing negative side effects with the Daytrana that I can sense so far other than loss of appetite. His sleep is better with Daytrana than it was with Adderall XR. He has had some mood regulation issues but fewer again than with Adderall and he doesn't have the same horrid rebound reaction in the evening that he did with Adderall either. As for camp today, this is rich. I just picked him up-- he was unusually subdued. He said he was disapointed because the kids in his group were disruptive and seemed uninterested in learning about the animals (it is natural science day camp). He said that they weren't serious, were disrespectful and did not follow the rules. Whose kid was that just talking? Oh, it must have been Son of Daytrana. I wonder how the day might have gone without the big D. The downside is that he said he couldn't eat anything because "the thought of food made me barf". This isn't such a great thing as the kids spent the better part of this 80 degree day hiking. I still don't know which is worse: an unruly kid or a malnourished kid. [/QUOTE]
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