concerta

Hi! I'm new to this forum. I have two daughters ages 10 and 8. My youngest was diagnosed with ADD a couple months ago and has been taking concerta for it. She has made remarkable improvements in school and seems to be adjusting well to the medication. If anyone here has or has had a child on...

Hi there. My daughter was just give a prescription for Concerta. Did anyone have any problems with this drug? Did it work for your child if they took it?

The list of drugs with reactions for difficult child is growing longer and longer. We spent quite a bit of time with-the psychiatrist today, watching him hold his head and read through his laptop, figuring out what difficult child CAN take ... Wish us luck!

I posted back in October - December last year about my son who was getting all sorts of diagnoses thrown at him like ED, CD, and ODD instead of his Aspergers because he was resistant at school. I read the forums and other stories and pulled help from everywhere I could. You guys really helped...

This is going to be long. For the most part, daughter had been bordering on being a easy child all of her life. She met her milestones SUPER early (very, very verbal at an early age, taught herself to read at 3, always scored highest in her grade on standardized testing, etc) and was generally just a happy...

For those of you who have kids that have started school already this year, how are things going? For those of us who have kids starting tomorrow, I hope everyone's difficult children and pcs have a great first day! (My difficult child doesn't start til Wed because only 9th graders go to high school tomorrow at the high...

Today is day 4 of a lower dose of Intuniv. difficult child is wild crazy! Drunk-like... falling around, stumbling, and way more accident prone. Oh and crying and hyper and goofy - but also giving me hugs and compliments which he doesn't do a lot. WTH? Can all this really be because of the lower dose of...

Today was the second day difficult child took Concerta. So far so good! I've noticed a change already. She's more mellow, and her impulsivity has decreased. Yay!! We've also had a lot fewer tantrums. psychiatrist and I went back and forth with pros and cons on Friday, and I agreed to give it a try. I was...

I have always heard this, and I know at one time a pharmacist told me this when he had to make a copy of my drivers license and I had to sign some weird statement when I picked up a refill. Can someone confirm or deny this? husband says technically it is a narcotic by medically not so much. I am...

Things with difficult child had been going really really well. We were up and at school, and grades were good too. For the past week or so, she has been self sabatoging getting ready on time for school. And, then she is usuing the I am too panicked to go in late. And then I cannot get her into the...

Ok-so I, posted about my 8 year old a couple of weeks ago. He was diagnosed with ADD and depression in 1st grade. I am not sure that is the whole story, but we are working on it. He is very very very defiant and oppositional, can be very inflexible, angry, doesn't like people touching his...

My daughter Beth was recently diagnosed with ADHD-inattentive. She started a prescription of 27mg Concerta on Thursday. I see a difference already but tonight she came to me with a fast heartbeat....127 beats a minute. It was pounding hard. She got scared and I think that made it pound even...

Can I just share how I'm feeling without getting messages about how I'm making a mistake or being foolish or whatever? :) Well, I can't stop you saying whatever you like but I'm just saying I'd prefer just to share how it is for me... And I don't mean to step on any toes or belittle anyone...

Just wondering if anyone else out there has experience with a violent child that has any advice? On Friday he got so mad at me because he didn't want to go back to school after his speech therapy appointment, that he scratched me with a pen that someone made its way into the backseat, he...

So E has been taking Vyvanse for a few weeks. he is taking around 12-15mg every morning. It's hard to tell exactly how much because of the way it's dissolved and measured out. But most days I'm able to get his dosage pretty good and he does well on it. But it wears off after 9 hours and he is CRAZY...

I've been doing some research and read that concerta increases impulsivity. Does anyone have experience or knowledge about this?

I have been sick for the past week and I spaced out and forgot to get difficult child's Concerta filled. I did have a 5 mg fast acting tablet that I gave him - but given the way he was acting in the car on the way to school - I don't think it will work. (sigh) I have an IEP meeting today after school...

My difficult child just turned 9 in January. She started her rages when she was 5. The first time she had a rage, it scared the day lights out of me! I looked in her eyes and she just wasn't there. That rage lasted 3 hours. Her first doctor was a neuro psychiatric who said she was ADHD and potentially bipolar. I...

Arrrrghhh! So we went back today for our 2nd appointment with dev pediatrician at a nearby Children's Hospital. I brought the completed GARS-2 questionnaires. He scored them. All 4 ranged between 65-70. An autism index of 69 or less means UNLIKELY. On one he was 70 which is just barely LIKELY. He said it...

Hi all my daughter is on 36 ml of concerta things have been amazing since october now the past couple weeks we are almost back to the same way we were since before medications do they go through phases?...is it possible medications are not working?..how do I know?...