It seems counter productive to give this child any form of stimulant but through the magic of medicine somehow it helps? We have attempted another ADHD medicine with Logan. He has been on 10mg of Adderall XR for the last 30days. So far we've had a much better experience with this medicine compared with the last medicine (Ritalin) we tried a couple years ago. His reports at school, since starting the medicine have indicated more focus & a little less of Logan jumping from activity to activity. At home we have noticed a very slightly more calm Logan. So after a month of slight improvement his Pediatrician agreed we should very slowly increase his dosage every month until we hit the magic number. Adderall has a long list of side effects but so far we've only really seen 2 from Logan (albeit two big effects) - it decreases appetite & he has lost 2lbs in the last month. It causes sleeplessness & he can be found in his room at 9:30pm or later bright eyed and playing. This from the kid who could barely stay awake till 7pm ... is a big difference. We have to go to the doctors every month to check weight & if he continues to drop weight we'll either lower the dosage or switch to yet another family of medicines known to help with ADHD. As for the sleep the doctor said there are things we can do to help with that if it becomes a problem.
So we go today to fill his 15mg dose of Adderral XR & hope that 15 is the magic number.
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