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[quote=Anonymous]We started with stimulants because even though my child's grades were good, he was coming home exhausted from having to work so hard to stay still. He was missing instruction because he was paying attention to controlling his body instead of the teacher -- so he didn't know what the assignment was or how he was supposed to complete it. We tried several stimulants and they worked really well with no side effects that *I* saw. But he really didn't like how they made him feel, although he wasn't able to describe that the feeling. He's now on guanfacine, with a prescription for Ritalin that he takes as needed (for him, instrument lesson and evenings when he has a lot of homework). We revisit the decision about stimulants each year -- he's in 8th grade now and we all expect that he will need them in high school, when work gets harder, but for now he's ok on just guanfacine.[/quote]
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