Reply to ADHD & Personality Change; is it worth it?

Forum Index » Kids With Special Needs and Disabilities

Reply to "ADHD & Personality Change; is it worth it?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To OP- there are a few different nonstimulants. My kid was sad and worse behaved on guanificine. They are doing fine on a different medication now. I’d at least ask for a med check with your doctor if it’s been more than a while. There might be something else that is a better fit.[/quote]

Op here - thank you! Same meds. Will try for new [/quote]

OP, as a prescriber, my experience is that I see many children who become "sluggish," for lack of a better word, on guanfacine. They put on weight, don't have the energy for activities, and can get sad and withdrawn. It's a blood pressure medicine, and I see more side effects with this than with the stimulants.

For some children, it works great. After seeing a lot of children try it, I am not surprised when I see the changes you describe.[/quote]

For DS, and the three buckets someone else wrote, his problems since infancy have always been behavioral/disruption.  In that case, the non-stims have been lifesavers, because we want him to dial the F down and get a "sluggish" like other kids, instead of running around like a maniac, dangerous to himself and others.  We have far worse side effects on stimulants. Before we started the non-stimulants, in order to have him on a high enough stimulant dose that he could go through a typical school day without incident, the needed dose left him like a walking zombie. It sucked.  [/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