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Vacation from stimulant??
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<blockquote data-quote="LittleDudesMom" data-source="post: 364289" data-attributes="member: 805"><p>I'm here a little late but wanted to add my $1's worth!!!!! Inflation.....</p><p></p><p>My difficult child has been given a stimulant break on school breaks (Easter, Christmas) and summer since he started stims in first grade (now graduating from 8th in three days). My reasoning was that he really needed the stimulant to succeed in a highly structured environment, like school. At home, I could deal.</p><p></p><p>It definitely, especially at his most impulsive and hyperactive when he was younger, took a week or so for him "to get" that he was medication free. It took me saying things like, "Calm down, no medications" or "Chill", "Get it under control". After a week or two, things kinda settled into a new routine.</p><p></p><p>Both my pediatrician and psychiatrist disagreed about the medication vacation, but I was the mother, I lived with him, I felt I knew best. Stims are one medication that I think we, as parents, can have a say in. They are in/out - they don't need tapering. I firmly believe it's a family choice. To this day, he takes vyvanse five days a week during the school year - not on the weekends, not on school breaks and not in the summer. We've been doing this since he was in first grade - 8 years now.</p><p></p><p>And the vyvanse does last longer.</p><p></p><p>Good luck.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LittleDudesMom, post: 364289, member: 805"] I'm here a little late but wanted to add my $1's worth!!!!! Inflation..... My difficult child has been given a stimulant break on school breaks (Easter, Christmas) and summer since he started stims in first grade (now graduating from 8th in three days). My reasoning was that he really needed the stimulant to succeed in a highly structured environment, like school. At home, I could deal. It definitely, especially at his most impulsive and hyperactive when he was younger, took a week or so for him "to get" that he was medication free. It took me saying things like, "Calm down, no medications" or "Chill", "Get it under control". After a week or two, things kinda settled into a new routine. Both my pediatrician and psychiatrist disagreed about the medication vacation, but I was the mother, I lived with him, I felt I knew best. Stims are one medication that I think we, as parents, can have a say in. They are in/out - they don't need tapering. I firmly believe it's a family choice. To this day, he takes vyvanse five days a week during the school year - not on the weekends, not on school breaks and not in the summer. We've been doing this since he was in first grade - 8 years now. And the vyvanse does last longer. Good luck. [/QUOTE]
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