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[quote=Anonymous] Excellent question. Perhaps it has to do with progressive sleep deprivation - when she's not on meds, the quality of her sleep may be affected, and it takes a week to accumulate and show? Or more generally, she took it upon herself (perhaps unconsciously) to mimic the on-meds behavior, but can't sustain it beyond a week because the neurotransmitters just aren't there. My 11 year old with severe inattentive ADHD is on 20mg Focalin during the school year, and his psychiatrist advised us to halve the dose (by opening the capsule, taking roughly half the granules and swallowing them in something like yogurt) on summer weekends, to get him to eat more, since he's at the 3rd percentile for weight. It has worked well - clearly he's not on meds by mid-afternoon, but as long as he doesn't need to pay detailed attention, it's fine. And he does eat more! [/quote]
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