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<blockquote data-quote="LoonyAlana" data-source="post: 617607" data-attributes="member: 17555"><p>I guess I wasn't making things clear. It wasn't the 'side effects' of suppression of appetite (we were warned about that with my older son, too, taking Concerta.) It's that my youngest knows that we put medicine in his food, decided that (because of taste, or just to be contradictory to what we wanted for him) he would no longer eat breakfast as long as we were going to drug it. I tried sugar, I tried soda, spoonfuls of cake icing, yogurt with sprinkles... I tried any and every food he liked in this world to get him to take the medication. It wasn't lack of hunger, because he would happily complain to the school how hungry he was, making it look like I was some lazy or evil mother not even attempting to feed her child before school. And the medicine is bright orange little tiny spheres, so it's hard to completely hide it. We gave up, because the only way to get him to eat again, and get the school off our back about him being hungry in the mornings, was to stop trying to force the Adderall into him. And in regard to mornings, he's difficult to get to sleep at night, and to wake up in the morning, usually I can't fully get him to wake up until we're arriving at school. He doesn't even like to wake up enough for me to easily dress him, and there is NO way currently I can get him to eat or drink anything when he's half asleep. He's too picky about his foods and drinks, and actually prefers NOT to have any drinks in the morning (with the exception of milk in his bowl of cereal). I love him, but he's one of the most persnickity, stubborn people I've ever met.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LoonyAlana, post: 617607, member: 17555"] I guess I wasn't making things clear. It wasn't the 'side effects' of suppression of appetite (we were warned about that with my older son, too, taking Concerta.) It's that my youngest knows that we put medicine in his food, decided that (because of taste, or just to be contradictory to what we wanted for him) he would no longer eat breakfast as long as we were going to drug it. I tried sugar, I tried soda, spoonfuls of cake icing, yogurt with sprinkles... I tried any and every food he liked in this world to get him to take the medication. It wasn't lack of hunger, because he would happily complain to the school how hungry he was, making it look like I was some lazy or evil mother not even attempting to feed her child before school. And the medicine is bright orange little tiny spheres, so it's hard to completely hide it. We gave up, because the only way to get him to eat again, and get the school off our back about him being hungry in the mornings, was to stop trying to force the Adderall into him. And in regard to mornings, he's difficult to get to sleep at night, and to wake up in the morning, usually I can't fully get him to wake up until we're arriving at school. He doesn't even like to wake up enough for me to easily dress him, and there is NO way currently I can get him to eat or drink anything when he's half asleep. He's too picky about his foods and drinks, and actually prefers NOT to have any drinks in the morning (with the exception of milk in his bowl of cereal). I love him, but he's one of the most persnickity, stubborn people I've ever met. [/QUOTE]
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