Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
New profile posts
Latest activity
Internet Search
Members
Current visitors
New profile posts
Search profile posts
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Forums
Parent Support Forums
General Parenting
New to group, been lurking for awhile
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="AnnieO" data-source="post: 440832" data-attributes="member: 6705"><p>Ritalin and other stimulants can help a non-ADHD person <em>focus</em> - however they then are hyped up. It is a stimulant, after all.</p><p></p><p>HOWEVER, a person <em>with</em> ADHD can be helped immensely. It is, in my humble opinion, the non-ADHD kids that are zombies - because they're so hyped up, all the time, they are unable to sleep. A zombie is, literally, the walking dead - what happens to me with too much coffee and too little sleep. After a few days, I walk around in a daze, even with coffee...</p><p></p><p>Jett was on Concerta for a while. Up to 54mg. He went from a sweet kid to a TOTAL BRAT while on it, and he would CRASH about 6 PM - be whiny for a couple hours - then sleep like the dead, not even waking up to pee (we had to tear out the carpet in his room, and he would sleepwalk to the bathroom, stop 2 feet before the toilet and pee on the wall/floor. Upon waking in the morning, he was groggy. (The school was giving it to him per BM, unknown to husband). And then the cycle would start again. And then... Saturday, mid-day, good kid was back for a couple days, Monday it was back to the nightmare. He made a comment to us one day about "the white pills are harder to swallow than the blue ones were" - WHAT?! This is how we found out. When the scrip ran out (mid-week), he had a couple of days of "I can't concentrate without my pill" and then, miraculously, his grades went up and he was much happier. He did not sleep on Wednesday nights, though. We found out that BM was dosing him while he visited her. I guess she finally ran out of Rx's, because this has stopped.</p><p></p><p>On the other side - Onyxx responded VERY WELL to Risperidone and Wellbutrin together. She just started refusing to take them. But when she was on them? Bipolar symptoms calmed, mood better, slept... Now she was also on Seroquel and Zoloft, and that was horrible. Trazadone, Benadryl, and half-a-dozen others didn't work.</p><p></p><p>SO - it's more a case of the right medication for each person. Me? Wellbutrin is NOT a good idea. Zoloft has no effect. But Lexapro? Wonderful.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AnnieO, post: 440832, member: 6705"] Ritalin and other stimulants can help a non-ADHD person [I]focus[/I] - however they then are hyped up. It is a stimulant, after all. HOWEVER, a person [I]with[/I] ADHD can be helped immensely. It is, in my humble opinion, the non-ADHD kids that are zombies - because they're so hyped up, all the time, they are unable to sleep. A zombie is, literally, the walking dead - what happens to me with too much coffee and too little sleep. After a few days, I walk around in a daze, even with coffee... Jett was on Concerta for a while. Up to 54mg. He went from a sweet kid to a TOTAL BRAT while on it, and he would CRASH about 6 PM - be whiny for a couple hours - then sleep like the dead, not even waking up to pee (we had to tear out the carpet in his room, and he would sleepwalk to the bathroom, stop 2 feet before the toilet and pee on the wall/floor. Upon waking in the morning, he was groggy. (The school was giving it to him per BM, unknown to husband). And then the cycle would start again. And then... Saturday, mid-day, good kid was back for a couple days, Monday it was back to the nightmare. He made a comment to us one day about "the white pills are harder to swallow than the blue ones were" - WHAT?! This is how we found out. When the scrip ran out (mid-week), he had a couple of days of "I can't concentrate without my pill" and then, miraculously, his grades went up and he was much happier. He did not sleep on Wednesday nights, though. We found out that BM was dosing him while he visited her. I guess she finally ran out of Rx's, because this has stopped. On the other side - Onyxx responded VERY WELL to Risperidone and Wellbutrin together. She just started refusing to take them. But when she was on them? Bipolar symptoms calmed, mood better, slept... Now she was also on Seroquel and Zoloft, and that was horrible. Trazadone, Benadryl, and half-a-dozen others didn't work. SO - it's more a case of the right medication for each person. Me? Wellbutrin is NOT a good idea. Zoloft has no effect. But Lexapro? Wonderful. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Parent Support Forums
General Parenting
New to group, been lurking for awhile
Top