hi all, havent been here in awhile, been way too busy and overwhelmed at home to even think of "surfing" anywhere online.
its been a long slow road but we have been referred to yet another therepist and pychologist, one for therapy and one for medications. We are trying to find the right fit for difficult child and medications and now I feel like I am second guessing the medication road. He is on Vyvanse 30 mg taken in the morning, and newly added 5 mg dextroamphetamine (sp) taken at dinner time. both for adhd symptoms. Dr thinks he is not truely clinically depressed, he thinks the adhd is fogging him up and is causing the depression, if we clear the fog, the depression will go away. fingers crossed.
teacher reports he is doing much much better in class, focusing better, almost to the point of hyper focusing on the task at hand, which is a complete 360, before he would focus on what he would want to do, now she can get him to do what he needs to do, but sometimes cant break that concentration. but he does seem to walk with shoulders down and not smiling as much....but he is not off the wall like he was. Not sure if this is good or bad.
At home, I can only comment for the weeknights, he is like a shaken bottle of soda, around 4-5pm, his cover comes off, and he explodes, almost worse than he was before medications.....anger, off the wall, crying, short fused, off/on with the mood swings. during the weekends, he was great 8am -4pm, i did see the hyper focus, he would stay with one toy, game, book etc all day, it was nice for me (selfishly) but if I dared to alter his plans with say lets go to the movies or we have to do an errand, he would flip his lid. dr went from 20 mg of vyvanse to 30mg thinking 20 was too low. On 30 we were still having same issues. So dr added this dextroamphetamine stuff, 5mg taken between 4-5 every day. adding this, he became very angry with 30 minutes of taking it, almost unbareable. So i cut it to 2.5 mg on my own with the same reaction from him.
What am I doing, is the vyvanse and dextro the wrong medication? am i wrong to put him on medications? am i messing him up? what do i do now? I dont go back to medication dr until end of Feb....should i call him and take him off dextro completely and ask for something different than vyvanse? I feel like I am screwing with nature here and I wont be able to get him back. I feel like he is going to hate me for what i am doing to him.....
its been a long slow road but we have been referred to yet another therepist and pychologist, one for therapy and one for medications. We are trying to find the right fit for difficult child and medications and now I feel like I am second guessing the medication road. He is on Vyvanse 30 mg taken in the morning, and newly added 5 mg dextroamphetamine (sp) taken at dinner time. both for adhd symptoms. Dr thinks he is not truely clinically depressed, he thinks the adhd is fogging him up and is causing the depression, if we clear the fog, the depression will go away. fingers crossed.
teacher reports he is doing much much better in class, focusing better, almost to the point of hyper focusing on the task at hand, which is a complete 360, before he would focus on what he would want to do, now she can get him to do what he needs to do, but sometimes cant break that concentration. but he does seem to walk with shoulders down and not smiling as much....but he is not off the wall like he was. Not sure if this is good or bad.
At home, I can only comment for the weeknights, he is like a shaken bottle of soda, around 4-5pm, his cover comes off, and he explodes, almost worse than he was before medications.....anger, off the wall, crying, short fused, off/on with the mood swings. during the weekends, he was great 8am -4pm, i did see the hyper focus, he would stay with one toy, game, book etc all day, it was nice for me (selfishly) but if I dared to alter his plans with say lets go to the movies or we have to do an errand, he would flip his lid. dr went from 20 mg of vyvanse to 30mg thinking 20 was too low. On 30 we were still having same issues. So dr added this dextroamphetamine stuff, 5mg taken between 4-5 every day. adding this, he became very angry with 30 minutes of taking it, almost unbareable. So i cut it to 2.5 mg on my own with the same reaction from him.
What am I doing, is the vyvanse and dextro the wrong medication? am i wrong to put him on medications? am i messing him up? what do i do now? I dont go back to medication dr until end of Feb....should i call him and take him off dextro completely and ask for something different than vyvanse? I feel like I am screwing with nature here and I wont be able to get him back. I feel like he is going to hate me for what i am doing to him.....