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[quote=Anonymous]We should never has waited as long as we did to medicate.   It is by far my biggest parenting regret with my hS senior. Not because of grades.  There isn’t a disaster on his transcript. But because he was so clearly unhappy and struggling.  He wanted to do things like other kids so badly and just couldn’t.  But,  I didn’t want to pull the trigger.  A couple months after he started, he asked me why we had waited so long when his life had been so hard before. It broke my heart. And the answer is because I was scared.   But  looking at the difference and what we put him through by not acting.  Forget grades. Screen are still a struggle. He’s happier, more balanced, more confident, less angry and less anxious.  It's hands down the one parenting decision I know I blew.

OP— forget the Ped and do it right. Get an adolescent psychiatrist and work with them to get a valid diagnosis and Medicare if appropriate. ADHD meds are tricky.  Some work for your kid, some don’t. And as a kid grows or hits puberty, what they need can change. But please do something. I’ve now learned that unmediated ADHD kids are at very high risk for anxiety, depression, suicide, substance abuse. And I see why. [/quote]

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