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[quote=Anonymous]No great advice except sympathy, as we have been there.  I was the OP of the other thread asking about stimulant withdrawal, because we dropped our son's adderall from 15 to 10mg a couple weeks ago, and the first few days without the full dose were *way* worse than he was before starting meds. He settled after a few days (into a hyperactive kid - but not dangerous hyperactive like he was on the first few days).  Point being is that your son is probably so bad not just because he's not getting as much stimulant as he needs to thrive, but *also* because his body is going into crash/withdrawal/rebound because it's not getting the stimulant that it's used to.  This totally sucks. I'm always surprised that there is not more discussion out there about how to transition from one drug to another.  Everyone on this site and other sites is always talking about how they had to try like 6 different meds, at different doses, before they found one that worked.  And i'm thinking: every time we try a new med, we effectively can't send our son to school or he would get suspended.  How are these people doing it?  And i jealously wonder why they are even subjecting their kid to adhd meds at all, to the extent their kid *can* get by at school without.  The only reason we started stimulants is because DS literally cannot be in a school setting without them.  [/quote]

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