riskybusiness
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Hi Everyone:
We had our difficult child on Concerta of 27 mg. We hadn't been to a psychiatric for evaulation since our original diagnosis several years ago. Our family Dr. retired and we were given a new one who is very antimedication. He prescribes the Concerta based on weight not on conditions etc.
We visited a new psychiatric who said that he felt that we should try our son on two different combinations of concerta. A 27 mg with an 18 mg dosage for a few days and then two 27 mg pills to see if there was an improvement. He felt that we would see a big difference. Well...I am feeling frustrated and upset. We have not seen really any positive difference increasing our difficult child's dosage. In fact he seems to be having different problems than he was originally.
Originally he was very distracted, concentration problems but generally speaking he was in good humour and happy. Now he seems to be thinking of ways to get into trouble. He seems more moody at night, can't seem to get to sleep (which the psychiatric prescribed clonidine 0.1 mg (1/2 to 3 per night as needed) to help the sleeping issue. Today he was trying to figure out how he could shove a feather into a candy dispensing machine at his day camp (our difficult child is 9) to get free candy out. Somehow he figured it out. Now this is something that he would never normally do. Before he might have been distracted and somewhat hyper, but now he seems to think differently. He also has had some interest in sexual thoughts. He is suddenly talking about noticing breasts more etc. Is this normal? Is something that normal 9 year olds start to notice and talk about etc? I have only had one boy so I need some guidance here. Prior to the increase in medications he never even mentioned anything about sexual organs or parts of the body before.
His teacher at school this year said that she does not find him hyper in any way, but that he needs much redirection to stay on task etc. So perhaps the Concerta controls the hyperness, but....there is still lack of concentration. Now on the upped dosage his behaviour seems more deviant or something. Normally our son is extremely honest (almost to a fault)
Has anyone else experienced this and does anyone know how Strattera and Adderal etc or any other medications work differently than Concerta? Our pysch is on holidays till mid September so we are running blind here. I could just cry. I don't know which direction to go. Should we stay on the increased dosage and see if it takes weeks to work properly. Are we doing more harm than good by keeping it up higher? Has anyone had negative results with Concerta and did you find your difficult child's to be more easily angered and tempermental because of taking it. Our difficult child seems much more moody and easily angered.
Any advice at this point is so appreciated. School is coming ...Ahhhhhhh!
Sincerely,
Riskybusiness
We had our difficult child on Concerta of 27 mg. We hadn't been to a psychiatric for evaulation since our original diagnosis several years ago. Our family Dr. retired and we were given a new one who is very antimedication. He prescribes the Concerta based on weight not on conditions etc.
We visited a new psychiatric who said that he felt that we should try our son on two different combinations of concerta. A 27 mg with an 18 mg dosage for a few days and then two 27 mg pills to see if there was an improvement. He felt that we would see a big difference. Well...I am feeling frustrated and upset. We have not seen really any positive difference increasing our difficult child's dosage. In fact he seems to be having different problems than he was originally.
Originally he was very distracted, concentration problems but generally speaking he was in good humour and happy. Now he seems to be thinking of ways to get into trouble. He seems more moody at night, can't seem to get to sleep (which the psychiatric prescribed clonidine 0.1 mg (1/2 to 3 per night as needed) to help the sleeping issue. Today he was trying to figure out how he could shove a feather into a candy dispensing machine at his day camp (our difficult child is 9) to get free candy out. Somehow he figured it out. Now this is something that he would never normally do. Before he might have been distracted and somewhat hyper, but now he seems to think differently. He also has had some interest in sexual thoughts. He is suddenly talking about noticing breasts more etc. Is this normal? Is something that normal 9 year olds start to notice and talk about etc? I have only had one boy so I need some guidance here. Prior to the increase in medications he never even mentioned anything about sexual organs or parts of the body before.
His teacher at school this year said that she does not find him hyper in any way, but that he needs much redirection to stay on task etc. So perhaps the Concerta controls the hyperness, but....there is still lack of concentration. Now on the upped dosage his behaviour seems more deviant or something. Normally our son is extremely honest (almost to a fault)
Has anyone else experienced this and does anyone know how Strattera and Adderal etc or any other medications work differently than Concerta? Our pysch is on holidays till mid September so we are running blind here. I could just cry. I don't know which direction to go. Should we stay on the increased dosage and see if it takes weeks to work properly. Are we doing more harm than good by keeping it up higher? Has anyone had negative results with Concerta and did you find your difficult child's to be more easily angered and tempermental because of taking it. Our difficult child seems much more moody and easily angered.
Any advice at this point is so appreciated. School is coming ...Ahhhhhhh!
Sincerely,
Riskybusiness