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<blockquote data-quote="julierose24" data-source="post: 557035" data-attributes="member: 15387"><p>Hello. I'm new here. My husband and I have a 6 year old daughter. We adopted her through the foster care system. She came to live with us at 4 months old, but went into foster care directly at birth. Her birth parents are both diagnosed schizophrenic. Birth mother is also bipolar. Birth father is illiterate, blind in one eye, and has a seizure disorder. Both use drugs. Birth mother used drugs while pregnant with my daughter, but both were clean at the time of her birth.</p><p></p><p>I have always thought my daughter was ADHD -but waited until it started effecting her at school to do anything about it. Well, first grade it hit us. We got her diagnosed in August. Started her on Metadate. Within a week and a half -her behavior completely changed. Agression, tantrums, melt downs, exteme definace. Life has been horrible ever since. We stopped the medications (to make sure that wasn't what caused this), and behavior continued. She has never been an easy child -but holy moly. She is now on Adderal XR. I don't feel we have the right dose yet (sometimes I feel like there is no change, and sometimes it works for about 6 hours). It helps with the ADHD symptoms, but not the agression, defiance. </p><p></p><p>Sleep is also an issue. The trouble began around age 3 -and has continued. We give her melatonin every night -but don't see much difference. </p><p></p><p>Anyone have any advice or experience in this area? We have an EEG scheduled for next week to rule out seizures (though the chief of neurology, myself, her psychiatrist all agree that we don't think that is what this is because she is remorseful after her melt downs). </p><p></p><p>I noticed a lot of adopted kids on here -is this just how it goes? </p><p></p><p>Thanks so much for ANY advice.</p><p></p><p>Julie</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="julierose24, post: 557035, member: 15387"] Hello. I'm new here. My husband and I have a 6 year old daughter. We adopted her through the foster care system. She came to live with us at 4 months old, but went into foster care directly at birth. Her birth parents are both diagnosed schizophrenic. Birth mother is also bipolar. Birth father is illiterate, blind in one eye, and has a seizure disorder. Both use drugs. Birth mother used drugs while pregnant with my daughter, but both were clean at the time of her birth. I have always thought my daughter was ADHD -but waited until it started effecting her at school to do anything about it. Well, first grade it hit us. We got her diagnosed in August. Started her on Metadate. Within a week and a half -her behavior completely changed. Agression, tantrums, melt downs, exteme definace. Life has been horrible ever since. We stopped the medications (to make sure that wasn't what caused this), and behavior continued. She has never been an easy child -but holy moly. She is now on Adderal XR. I don't feel we have the right dose yet (sometimes I feel like there is no change, and sometimes it works for about 6 hours). It helps with the ADHD symptoms, but not the agression, defiance. Sleep is also an issue. The trouble began around age 3 -and has continued. We give her melatonin every night -but don't see much difference. Anyone have any advice or experience in this area? We have an EEG scheduled for next week to rule out seizures (though the chief of neurology, myself, her psychiatrist all agree that we don't think that is what this is because she is remorseful after her melt downs). I noticed a lot of adopted kids on here -is this just how it goes? Thanks so much for ANY advice. Julie [/QUOTE]
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