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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DD is on Intuniv. It helps a lot with sleep and with hyperactivity. She doesn't use the stimulant any more. I think she's trained her brain by now or she's matured or something, but her test scores and school work are good enough without the stimulant. [b]Stimulants do have those side effects: they lose weight, they don't want to eat, they can't sleep until late at night, they crash when they come off it, tics are exacerbated as is anxiety. [/quote][/b] If the medication is having all those side effects, you need to try a different medication. My DS is on Focalin XR, a stimulant, and he does not have any of those side effects. The only thing we have is that he is not hungry at lunch time (and eats little, like 2-3 cheese sticks and fruit) we work around that by feeding him a big breakfast, big dinner, and lots of high calorie snacks after school and in the evenings. [/quote]
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