ADHD med "trials" with 6 yr old

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Stimulants make a minority of ADHD kids more emotionally dysregulated like your son. I think discontinuing makes sense in that case. Strattera is a different class and takes longer to see an effect (weeks to a month). If that doesn't work, guanfacine ER is another non stimulant for ADHD. Hang in there.

Adding to this, it also not easy to tell if anxiety, depression, mood issues are due to ADHD or in addition. When in addition it seems more the stimulants worsen. There's a couple of posts in this board with people discussing this, but again seems trial is the best option .