Concert and ADHD

I do not have a question but I have a comment. My son is 8 years old and he has been on concerta for 1 year. It has been upped four times. He started on 18 mg upped to 36 mg upped to 52 mg upped to 72 mg. Every time I spoke to the doctor about it not working as well as it should they would up it saying he needed a higher dose. when they moved him to 52 mg he started hitting kids at school, throwing fits and then they upped it to 72 saying the impulsiveness is there and his body adjusted to it and needed a higher dose. Now he is kicked out of school for bitting and hitting and is conciderd to be a danger to kids. He is talking about killing himself and even ask me to do it. He is seeing a doctor but we robbed peter to pay paul and now he has tics and depression and he told me he thought he was a monster. CONCERTA RUINED MY LIFE AND MY SON'S LIFE. PLEASE CHOOSE ANOTHER FORM FOR ADHD. SAVE YOUR SELF AND YOUR CHILD.  It may not turn out my my child but where is the promise of that. my heart is broken. I wish I would not of trusted doctors and did not take the easy route with his adhd for maybe he would have a good life.

Signed
I broken mother

[Sandman2]

   WOW!  Just being curious - what kind of a doctor was doing this -- psychologist, general md, etc.  
    You did not take the easy route.  Doing nothing is taking the easy route. Not learning what ADHD is and how it can affect your child is taking the easy route.  If any thing your doctor took the easy route.  Hopefully you have moved on to a more qualified doctor.
     One other piece of advice (if you don't mind).  Your child should qualify for special education.  If he is in special ed (at least in California), you can't kick a child out of school for their identified condition.  There are a lot of benifits to special ed.  The main one being that once you child has his IEP - its like a contract between the school and you. It can protect your child.  You can request special ed testing and they must do so.
     Finally, he can still have a good life.  He is young.  He will possibly need some psychological help (they say most ADHD kids do) to understand that it is not his fault.  He (really important here) needs to understand that  ADHD is not his fault.  You can really help him by reading up on ADHD and how to work with kids who have it.  
     Don't give up on Doctors (well maybe definitely your last one).  I think you will need there help to figure out what is going on.  The fact that he got worse on higher doses of meds is a warning sign.  It is possible that it was just the wrong med for him.  It is also possible that he has something else going on and that is what you will need a qualified child psychologist to figure out.   Good Luck!!