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[quote=Anonymous]My DD16 has been on stimulants since she was 7. Because she is so skinny (2nd percentile for weight and 50th percentile for height) and the stimulants suppress her appetite, we only give her stimulants Monday — Friday during the school year and she’s unmedicated on weekends, when the demands on her executive functioning are far less. In the summer, we only give her half the dose she’d take for school. On days she gets her full dose of her stimulant, we also give her Ciproheptadine to increase her appetite. She’s not addicted. If I don’t give her the medication, she forgets all about it. She’s never come to me, wanting to take it, and none of her pills have ever gone missing. [/quote]
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