Reply to Do you think stimulants permanently affected your child?

Forum Index » Kids With Special Needs and Disabilities

Reply to "Do you think stimulants permanently affected your child?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have heard anecdotally that some people think it shot their metabolism and lead to weight problems. Makes some sense. if your appetite is low on them and you aren't eating enough calories for a long period of time, your metabolism gets messed up.

Have also heard people complain by adulthood they habituated to it and could not keep going up in dose to it became somewhat useless.
[b]
If my kid ends up needing meds, I will probably avoid stimulants[/b].[/quote]

Well, the problem is that the other medications don’t really work very well for most people with ADHD.  The non-stimulants are all basically just sedative variants so help a little bit with hyperactivity and impulsivity but don’t really help the attention piece, and have their own set of side effects.  So for people who really need medication, the stimulants are generally the safest and most effective, unfortunately.[/quote]

Really? What I’ve read about Straterra is that some studies show it works almost as well as stimulents, but has to be taken long-term before achieving those effects. Like 9-plus months...[/quote]

Nine months may be fine to wait if your child has a very mild case of ADHD and can wait that long to get relief, but if that's the case, does your child really need medication at all? For our child, the decision to try medication came because his ADHD was taking a significant toll on his mental health, self-esteem, etc., and counseling/coaching wasn't helping. When you see your child becoming withdrawn/depressed and are worried about the possibility of them hurting themselves, you don't have the luxury of waiting several months for medication to work.[/quote]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