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[quote=Anonymous]Our DS was diagnosed just shy of 6.5 yrs, but we should have thought about it months earlier than that! It was a huge relief for us to just know what was driving all of the behavior issues. He is currently diagnosed with the hyper/impulsive subtype, but everyone thinks he'll be diagnosed with the combined type this year. We started medication about 6 weeks after the diagnosis, and it made a huge improvement academically, and some decent strides socially. We've been fortunate in that we see hardly any sleep or dietary side effects. If anything, he's actually sleeping better and eating more. Going into 1st grade, he was below where he should have been for reading and writing skills. Within 3 months, he had caught up with both. I do notice a huge difference in his ability to read and write when on the medication vs. off. If we leave homework until after medication has warn off, the handwriting is atrocious and it's almost impossible to get him to focus on reading a page. His behavior in the class room was next to impossible to redirect, even with behavior modification, before we started medicating. I know he's not a perfect little angel in class now, but we hear absolutely no complaints from the teaching staff. When we check in with them, they say that he's doing just great. We do still struggle with his behavior at home when medication has warn off. Good luck OP. Hope some of this background helps.[/quote]

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