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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Crazy responses op, highly recommend moving this to the special needs forum and you will get a response from parents who also have kids with ADHD and had to wrestle with this decision.

We chose to medicate even earlier and I have never regretted it for a second. Best decision we have made for our child if I'm being honest. We tried everything - diet changes, neurofeedback, therapy. None of it even remotely touched things and medication SIGNIFICANTLY improved life for our child and us. It is the first line treatment for ADHD for a reason, it is helpful for most and most other treatment is frankly not that effective from what I've read and experienced.

Consider the side effects of not medicating, your child's sense of self worth, confidence, sense of self can all be impacted and that is worthy of considering too.

Medication should be taken seriously, it is not without side effects as well but for us they have been minimal (first med had more, switched and second has been great) and it is worth considering.

I read so many old DCUM threads when trying to decide and there are some where people asked if anyone has regrets and almost all the responses were either no or my only regret is not starting sooner.  
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I could’ve written this exact post. We wasted two years trying everything: parent training, diet changes, holistic medicine, supplements, exercise. It ruined our family structure and almost tore my marriage apart. We were at our wits end, and we finally tried medication in third grade, my boy is on the older side, so he turned 9 soon after the year started, he’s big and fit, and I have never been so grateful! He’s on a very low dose and we plan to keep him on that until it stops working. He never takes it on weekends or on days off school or in the summer. He is a different kid, so much happier, so much better self-esteem, and our family is fine live been able to heal.

You will go through all the motions and try everything under the sun, but you will end up medicating and you will be very grateful that you did. Just do not let your life be ruined before you make the decision to finally medicate. I’m glad we did not start sooner, but I also wish we had known that the long-term ultimate decision would be to medicate because everything that we tried that didn’t work was so expensive and frustrating and heartbreaking and we could’ve saved ourselves a lot of trial and error.[/quote]

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