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<blockquote data-quote="Bugsy" data-source="post: 65032" data-attributes="member: 1680"><p>Thank you for the feedback.</p><p></p><p>My son is still on lithium and seroquel. Once we finally got to lithium we found some stability. The hope was with a stable mood maybe some of the adhd symptoms would be helped, but it really has not helped that part. </p><p></p><p>The problem is much more at home than at school. Even though he did well enough in kindergarten I met with the teachers a lot to brainstorm ways to help him such as preteach him some skills. He goes to a small private school and he is in the regular ed program but they have a small but excellent special needs program. It is mostly for autistic children though.</p><p></p><p>Home life is the HUGE problem. He can not do anything by himself and even when we try to engage him in an activity it is very hard. He literally spends the day driving us crazy. I have never seen a child that can not play at all by themself. I have been a teacher, consultant and an advocate for special needs for almost 20 years (wow I am getting old) and even some of the most ADHD kids I have had were able to engage in tv, computers, game boys---SOMETHING at some point but not my son. </p><p>We started the day with him crawling under my bed at 7:30 while I was in the bathroom and popping out when I came out to be silly. The whole day he spends driving us nuts, needing attention, buzzing about. Every once in a while he will sit and watch a bit of tv.</p><p></p><p>Well, we started strattera (10mg in the am) this morning. We have had such bad luck with medications that I try not to get my hopes up. I read a tremendous amount and believe that it can take a while to see an effect and that he really needs to get to an appropriate dosage for his weight (68lbs). Right now we hope for no bad reaction like mania.</p><p></p><p>Any additional thoughts, feedback and prayers welcomed,</p><p>bugsy's mom</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bugsy, post: 65032, member: 1680"] Thank you for the feedback. My son is still on lithium and seroquel. Once we finally got to lithium we found some stability. The hope was with a stable mood maybe some of the adhd symptoms would be helped, but it really has not helped that part. The problem is much more at home than at school. Even though he did well enough in kindergarten I met with the teachers a lot to brainstorm ways to help him such as preteach him some skills. He goes to a small private school and he is in the regular ed program but they have a small but excellent special needs program. It is mostly for autistic children though. Home life is the HUGE problem. He can not do anything by himself and even when we try to engage him in an activity it is very hard. He literally spends the day driving us crazy. I have never seen a child that can not play at all by themself. I have been a teacher, consultant and an advocate for special needs for almost 20 years (wow I am getting old) and even some of the most ADHD kids I have had were able to engage in tv, computers, game boys---SOMETHING at some point but not my son. We started the day with him crawling under my bed at 7:30 while I was in the bathroom and popping out when I came out to be silly. The whole day he spends driving us nuts, needing attention, buzzing about. Every once in a while he will sit and watch a bit of tv. Well, we started strattera (10mg in the am) this morning. We have had such bad luck with medications that I try not to get my hopes up. I read a tremendous amount and believe that it can take a while to see an effect and that he really needs to get to an appropriate dosage for his weight (68lbs). Right now we hope for no bad reaction like mania. Any additional thoughts, feedback and prayers welcomed, bugsy's mom [/QUOTE]
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