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7 yr old taking concerta and scaring me.
My 7 year old started concerta about 7 months ago. He start on a low low dose and as he got used to it and as the teachers seen no improvement his Dr continued to increast the dose, he is up to 36mg and I do not think this medication is for him.
He is violent towards himself, very hard on himself ~ bangs his own head, slaps himself, and feels that he needs to punish himself when he causes harm to someone else even by accident.
He says, he feels like he is going crazy sometimes, Not something you expect to hear from a 7 yr old. He is also very very emotional ~ this is not like my son at all, he seems to have lost some of his intelligence as he began this medicine. Like he will take 3 times to say a sentence ?
Is it odd that his meds seem to work on one day and then not the next ? despite taking it at the same time everyday ? Is it completely odd that at at 5:15pm (10 hrs exactly from the dose time) he goes tempermental and starts bouncing off the walls and literally climing the door casings, trashing the house and causing complete chaos. Is it ok that he is up til 1-2 AM cause he just cant 'make his mind stop racing or his body stop moving" as he says. I have basically banned sugar from my house, since my DH is a diabetic and we eat healthy so diet has nothing to do with it (well other than special occasions) he has a reward chart, that means the word to him until 5:15 and a routine. All kids are in bed by 8, and then I chase him around for 4-5-6 hours trying to get him to settle down before waking up everyone else.
He has a Dr's appointment on 12/10/07 and I would really like to enforce a med change, but I feel obliged to just listen to the DR. I do not want him on Concerta, Its not the med for him.
He is violent towards himself, very hard on himself ~ bangs his own head, slaps himself, and feels that he needs to punish himself when he causes harm to someone else even by accident.
He says, he feels like he is going crazy sometimes, Not something you expect to hear from a 7 yr old. He is also very very emotional ~ this is not like my son at all, he seems to have lost some of his intelligence as he began this medicine. Like he will take 3 times to say a sentence ?
Is it odd that his meds seem to work on one day and then not the next ? despite taking it at the same time everyday ? Is it completely odd that at at 5:15pm (10 hrs exactly from the dose time) he goes tempermental and starts bouncing off the walls and literally climing the door casings, trashing the house and causing complete chaos. Is it ok that he is up til 1-2 AM cause he just cant 'make his mind stop racing or his body stop moving" as he says. I have basically banned sugar from my house, since my DH is a diabetic and we eat healthy so diet has nothing to do with it (well other than special occasions) he has a reward chart, that means the word to him until 5:15 and a routine. All kids are in bed by 8, and then I chase him around for 4-5-6 hours trying to get him to settle down before waking up everyone else.
He has a Dr's appointment on 12/10/07 and I would really like to enforce a med change, but I feel obliged to just listen to the DR. I do not want him on Concerta, Its not the med for him.
I think that ADHD does not exist, there are just wild children in a child-hostile society and an evil combination of stressed parents, doctors beliving in drugs, and a greedy pharma industry.
Don't let chemicals destroy the brains of your children!
If there are so many ADHD kids like it seems, how did mankind cope with that 100 years ago, before concerta&co ??
Don't let chemicals destroy the brains of your children!
If there are so many ADHD kids like it seems, how did mankind cope with that 100 years ago, before concerta&co ??
I forgot to add that my son was on aderall at first before he went onto the conerta,but was not until he was on the conerta that he got worse,because his teacher said the aderall was not working and that is why he was changed to the conerta.
wish I had not put him on anything.
there are also other things going on with children,it doesn't always have to be adhd and wish doctors would check for everything before starting people on these medinces.and also they would find out better info after being on the medicines what is doing what to people.
thank you and hope to help people so they don't have to go threw what my son and my family have to go threw every day.
wish I had not put him on anything.
there are also other things going on with children,it doesn't always have to be adhd and wish doctors would check for everything before starting people on these medinces.and also they would find out better info after being on the medicines what is doing what to people.
thank you and hope to help people so they don't have to go threw what my son and my family have to go threw every day.
Hi I just read this,I am kind of new to this site and hope you read what I have to say.
first look this up if you have not already http://adhd.emedtv.com/concerta/concerta-side-effects.html.
You will see that one of the side effects to conerta are seizures.
When I saw what you had to say about your son is the same this I use to get form my son teacher at school ,and telling my son doctor about what was happening a few time's.
he finally sent my son for an egg because one day the school nurse said she thou my son may be having seizures and his doctor thou it would come back normal and to our surprise it did not.
you see my son was doing the same as you son was at school ,because he was and still is having night time seizures.And you can't always tell when he is having them.
and now he is having 3 different kind of seizures and the medicines he is on is not working.To the point that he just had the VNS surgery and not we have to wait and see if this will help him and try take him off some of his 5 medicines that he takes for just his seizures.
and he is not on any medicine for the add or the adhd.they can make seizures worse and I wont put him back on anything that can cause more problems to his brain.
they now think my son has lenoxx gastro syndrome.witch you can look up.
I do pray that no other child and parent has to go threw what my
mine has ,the side effects to these medicines can not be reversed.
first look this up if you have not already http://adhd.emedtv.com/concerta/concerta-side-effects.html.
You will see that one of the side effects to conerta are seizures.
When I saw what you had to say about your son is the same this I use to get form my son teacher at school ,and telling my son doctor about what was happening a few time's.
he finally sent my son for an egg because one day the school nurse said she thou my son may be having seizures and his doctor thou it would come back normal and to our surprise it did not.
you see my son was doing the same as you son was at school ,because he was and still is having night time seizures.And you can't always tell when he is having them.
and now he is having 3 different kind of seizures and the medicines he is on is not working.To the point that he just had the VNS surgery and not we have to wait and see if this will help him and try take him off some of his 5 medicines that he takes for just his seizures.
and he is not on any medicine for the add or the adhd.they can make seizures worse and I wont put him back on anything that can cause more problems to his brain.
they now think my son has lenoxx gastro syndrome.witch you can look up.
I do pray that no other child and parent has to go threw what my
mine has ,the side effects to these medicines can not be reversed.
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This scares the hell out of me because my daughter just started her son on this and I am NOT happy.
I totally understand everyone that has a child that has to be put on concerta cause the same thing is happen with my son but the major problam that I am having is that he is not wanting to do anything at school and I'm getting calls from the teacher that he just wants to put down his head and not do anything, am wondering if it is the concerta that is making him do this? Cause i want to find a way where he does not take medicine because he is also losing wieght and I DONT like that at all he was wieghting 95 pounds and just six month he wieghts 80 pounds and since am not used to seeing him like this I want to get him off and see if there is other things that could be done?
i had a similiar experience with concerta these types of behaviour, and because body tics were so bad, he had been prescribed prozac to combat those and anxiety made worse by concerta. also had issues sleeping..so then comes clonidine.....when the md heard a tape i made of my son speaking of hurting someone else and possibly hurting himself and me ...and that he was chewing the inside of his lip so bad that it took 2 weeks to heal and left a scar, he was taken off concerta and clonidine and half dose of prozac...some stimulants are not tolerated well by some kids that really do need them..do date my son is in therapy, and coming down off all those meds were hard. but it didn't help that he was misdiagnosed adhd since age 5 when he has nld which is similiar to asperger's......now trying natural meds to see if there is any help to be had....
not easy being a parent to a special needs child.....
not easy being a parent to a special needs child.....
We have tried every supplement out there and our son is on a GF/CF diet. He has CELIAC disease which causes neurological disorders and we are now going to try Concerta for short trial to see if it helps him....
We'll see......
I too don't agree with drugs but Celiac disease does have a connection with neurological disorders and we are in the we have to find an alternative NOW as he is having MAJOR issues at school and we have a complete DINK for a principal. NOT good with dealing w/ kids with disabilities, etc. If your child is well and healthy you do well in his school. IF your child has a medical impairment you are in trouble.
We'll see......
I too don't agree with drugs but Celiac disease does have a connection with neurological disorders and we are in the we have to find an alternative NOW as he is having MAJOR issues at school and we have a complete DINK for a principal. NOT good with dealing w/ kids with disabilities, etc. If your child is well and healthy you do well in his school. IF your child has a medical impairment you are in trouble.
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