Reply to Is it odd Ritalin is doing nothing?

Forum Index » Kids With Special Needs and Disabilities

Reply to "Is it odd Ritalin is doing nothing?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DC is on the highest dose of a stimulant.  It's just what they needed - it all just clicked at that dose.[/quote]

Yes, it is not one size fits all. Some kids respond to one med but not another. Some respond to a low dose, while others respond after a higher doses. It can take a year to figure out what works for your kid. Just keep letting the doctor know that this dose of this med isn't having any effect. We move slowly and cautiously with our inattentive kid, and it took a year and a half before we hit the (generic) dose the worked best and still had no side effects. I'll add that this as been a life altering improvement for this kid.

FWIW if you take methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta/etc.) and don't have ADHD, you would feel it immediately: you'd feel jittery, unfocused, might hyperfocus on random things unrelated to what you are trying to do, etc. If your baseline is normal, it puts you over the edge. If your baseline is super low, you won't feel a thing until you get to a dose that brings you up to normal (so to speak). This suggests that if your kid is truly feeling nothing at all as the dose increases, he hasn't hit the workable dose yet, but talk to your doctor about it.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics