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[quote=Anonymous]We’re trying to tease out if son’s irritability is linked to his stimulant (adderall). Figured summer break is a good time to try. He’s 6, and based on his behavior 1.5 years ago just before we started the med, I assume there’s no way he’s able to do camps or school without a stimulant yet. But we’re going to do the experiment anyhow, because it can give us data about whether it might be worth experimenting with non stimulants.

He has been on 15m of adderall.  Today we dropped him to 10mg and may drop to 5mg later this week, depending on what we see. He’s also on 2mg intuniv. He was pretty wired so far this morning (lessened after two or three hours) and also struggling with a tic/stereotypy that he had mostly repressed in recent months. I’m surprised how wired he was for the first couple hours, because 10mg was his daily dose as recently as 8 months ago. And he wasn’t on intuniv then. The 10mg of adderall without intuniv was a good fit.  Obviously this is just the first day, but I’m curious what we can expect this week.

Just wondering what folks’ experience has been dropping off stimulants (whether tapering, or cold turkey) for hyper compulsive type kids. The “withdrawal” symptoms on dr google say people should be fatigued and crash in the first few days, but I’m wondering if that is non adhd college kid addict types who were abusing it. Did anyone see increased hyperactivity after stopping? How long did it last? (As an aside, increased hyperactivity makes sense to me because his body probably needs to adjust to not having the calming effect of the stimulant). [/quote]

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