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When is too much concerta too much?
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<blockquote data-quote="Liahona" data-source="post: 66047" data-attributes="member: 3199"><p>Hi, I'm not a doctor, but I can tell you our experiance with some medications we've tried. We started out going to the pediatrician for ADHD. He gave us Concerta and it worked wonders, but difficult child 1's body mass index dropped dramatically. So, we stopped it and tried Focalin. It made difficult child 1 so manic!!! I've never seen him so bad. His hyperness was sky high, and so were all the other behaviors that come with bipolar. That was the only medication I've stopped without talking to the doctor first. I stopped it after 3 days. That is also when the pediatrician realized difficult child 1's illness was beyond his ability to treat and referred us to a psychiatrist. Some point in this difficult child 1 was also on Zoloft and started having auditory hallucinations. He got off that as fast as we could wean him of it. Some of the other mothers here have said that ADHD medications have made their bipolar kids manic. Also, the pediatrician said that Concerta is a short acting medication. This means that it shouldn't take a few weeks for you to see a difference. What it is doing now is what it is going to do in a few weeks. You should see a difference the day you give it to him and it should be out of his system within 12 hours. (Actually, I've heard this depends more on the childs metabolic rate.) Again remember I'm not a doctor. If it was me and difficult child 1 and the medication wasn't helping (and is making it worse) and the doctor is gone for a month I'd stop giving it to him. Does the docs office have anyone else there to answer questions?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Liahona, post: 66047, member: 3199"] Hi, I'm not a doctor, but I can tell you our experiance with some medications we've tried. We started out going to the pediatrician for ADHD. He gave us Concerta and it worked wonders, but difficult child 1's body mass index dropped dramatically. So, we stopped it and tried Focalin. It made difficult child 1 so manic!!! I've never seen him so bad. His hyperness was sky high, and so were all the other behaviors that come with bipolar. That was the only medication I've stopped without talking to the doctor first. I stopped it after 3 days. That is also when the pediatrician realized difficult child 1's illness was beyond his ability to treat and referred us to a psychiatrist. Some point in this difficult child 1 was also on Zoloft and started having auditory hallucinations. He got off that as fast as we could wean him of it. Some of the other mothers here have said that ADHD medications have made their bipolar kids manic. Also, the pediatrician said that Concerta is a short acting medication. This means that it shouldn't take a few weeks for you to see a difference. What it is doing now is what it is going to do in a few weeks. You should see a difference the day you give it to him and it should be out of his system within 12 hours. (Actually, I've heard this depends more on the childs metabolic rate.) Again remember I'm not a doctor. If it was me and difficult child 1 and the medication wasn't helping (and is making it worse) and the doctor is gone for a month I'd stop giving it to him. Does the docs office have anyone else there to answer questions? [/QUOTE]
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