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[quote=Anonymous]Follow up here from OP. So that first day that I posted, we increased to 10 after my husband told me to give her the additional 5 mg pill. She was better on 10 than on 5 but not as good as she was on 20 mg ritalin XR.

So the next day, we decided to give her 15. I feel horrible and like a bad mother even typing this. Liek some of the PP's above said, it was just so horrible for our whole family to not have her properly medicated.

We did notice that there was not much of a rebound effect at the end of the day on 10, but I didn't know if that was just because she wasn't medicated enough to even have a rebound.

So yesterday we gave her 15 and omg. She was a different kid. Better than she had ever been on the ritalin. All day long, we literally could not believe how good she was being. It wasn't like a drugged "zero personality" state either, she was just a much better version of herself. I was hearing the angels sing and thinking about how this was going to be life changing, and then something happened at bed time.

I put her to bed at 8 and I am not clear as to whether she fell asleep or not (or was maybe half asleep)? but it any case she was silent until about 11 or 12. She ended up complainign that she could not sleep and wanted one of us to go in there, and proceeded to flip out for over an hour until I finally agreed to leave her light on at 1 am so that she could read, because I had to go to sleep for work today. She was up at 6:30 and refused to stay quiet or in her room, when she is not normally allowed out of her room until 7:30.

So I feel like we are robbing Peter to pay Paul, she was great yesterday but god only knows what is going to happen today when she got half the amount of sleep she normally does. And my husband and I are zombies.

Any thoughts on this? DOes this mean the 15 mg is too high? Or is it our irresponsible parenting with not being slow enough to build to that?[/quote]

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