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<blockquote data-quote="kim75062" data-source="post: 711232" data-attributes="member: 20727"><p>My daughter is the text book example of ADD. She can not keep focus on anything, even things she enjoys are hard for her to keep focus on. Things less enjoyable like math, science etc. are impossible for her as her grades have shown. We tried for years with her to help her in other ways learn to deal with the ADD and retain focus. All failed attempts. For her, vyvanse has been the best thing. She can focus on her school work to retain the information.</p><p></p><p>That also effect goes into her everyday life. She can remember that she is going to x friends house and what to bring/what they are going to be doing. Her self confidence dramatically improves because of the medication. In her own words, it lifts the fog that's always in her head and she can finally understand what's going on around her instead of standing there waiting for direction.</p><p></p><p>As for my son, he's a different story completely. I was against ANY anti psychotic/controlled medications because he was still a baby in my eyes. Also being a nurse I KNOW the bad effects these drugs can have and someone has to be that 1% that has Horrible side effects etc. (when he was on intuniv I obsessively checked his blood pressure (not bipolar as the site changes it to lol) every 20 mins to make sure it wasn't dropping.)</p><p></p><p>What changed my mind was stepping back and actually watching him suffer. It was a struggle for him to even deal with himself! He hated that he couldn't keep himself in his seat or in the classroom at all. He cried because he really wanted to go to art but his brain wouldn't let his body stay there. He was starting to have major self hatred for the way he was acting and he couldn't control himself.</p><p></p><p>The abilify did work to an extent; his mood was more stable but after a few months he was having brain fog and didn't like the way it made him feel.</p><p></p><p>The stimulants also have worked, kinda. After 30 mins of taking one you can see the calm come over him, he's no longer climbing the walls and fighting himself to stay still where he wanted to be anyway. He can focus on doing what it is he wants to do. Wether that's reading a book or lining up dominos to make the longest line of them ever. Unfourtnatly we have learned he is a fast metabolizer and the effects only lasted 2 hours at the most and he was back to climbing the walls and paronoid, angry and violenence was the added side effects/coming down effects for him.</p><p></p><p>I am not against a medication that can help them be the best versions of them possible as long as it's safe. With so many of these medications the risks are greater then the benifits.</p><p></p><p>It's also heartbreaking to hear your 5 or 6 year old crying because they just want to be "normal". So that makes it that much harder to determine what the risks are your willing to take for them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kim75062, post: 711232, member: 20727"] My daughter is the text book example of ADD. She can not keep focus on anything, even things she enjoys are hard for her to keep focus on. Things less enjoyable like math, science etc. are impossible for her as her grades have shown. We tried for years with her to help her in other ways learn to deal with the ADD and retain focus. All failed attempts. For her, vyvanse has been the best thing. She can focus on her school work to retain the information. That also effect goes into her everyday life. She can remember that she is going to x friends house and what to bring/what they are going to be doing. Her self confidence dramatically improves because of the medication. In her own words, it lifts the fog that's always in her head and she can finally understand what's going on around her instead of standing there waiting for direction. As for my son, he's a different story completely. I was against ANY anti psychotic/controlled medications because he was still a baby in my eyes. Also being a nurse I KNOW the bad effects these drugs can have and someone has to be that 1% that has Horrible side effects etc. (when he was on intuniv I obsessively checked his blood pressure (not bipolar as the site changes it to lol) every 20 mins to make sure it wasn't dropping.) What changed my mind was stepping back and actually watching him suffer. It was a struggle for him to even deal with himself! He hated that he couldn't keep himself in his seat or in the classroom at all. He cried because he really wanted to go to art but his brain wouldn't let his body stay there. He was starting to have major self hatred for the way he was acting and he couldn't control himself. The abilify did work to an extent; his mood was more stable but after a few months he was having brain fog and didn't like the way it made him feel. The stimulants also have worked, kinda. After 30 mins of taking one you can see the calm come over him, he's no longer climbing the walls and fighting himself to stay still where he wanted to be anyway. He can focus on doing what it is he wants to do. Wether that's reading a book or lining up dominos to make the longest line of them ever. Unfourtnatly we have learned he is a fast metabolizer and the effects only lasted 2 hours at the most and he was back to climbing the walls and paronoid, angry and violenence was the added side effects/coming down effects for him. I am not against a medication that can help them be the best versions of them possible as long as it's safe. With so many of these medications the risks are greater then the benifits. It's also heartbreaking to hear your 5 or 6 year old crying because they just want to be "normal". So that makes it that much harder to determine what the risks are your willing to take for them. [/QUOTE]
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