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Need some ladies.. difficult child is currently on vyvanse. Thanks to DHs insurance, it costs 160 bucks per month. We just can't afford it. BM refuses to help, despite their court order. Doctor is trying to get Adderral approved, but that's the same price. Pharmacist said we might want to give ritalin a...

We had difficult child 3 assessed two years ago by a dream of a neuropsychologist. Well, I've been increasingly concerned over the last year or so by his increasing inability to cope with his already reduced school workload. Last year he was studying English, History & Geography - challenging for an autistic, so we...

:applause:Yeah for difficult child! School teacher called to say that for the last two days he has done wonderful in psychiatric hospital school! She said that he needs 1:1 at all times (yup) and that it took till yesterday (well he had a lot on his plate so...) for him to be able to stay in the room with other kids...

I am going to describe how manster gets at times and ask for help determining where it stems from. Is it likely from the spectrum? I believe it would be construed as emotional lability or some such term. We had a house full of people. Ones that he enjoys having over, is very comfortable...

Hello all! I am glad to find this group. I am new here and have been reading through the threads and I feel as if I am walking in to meet my biological family after having been in an adopted for my entire life. This journey of motherhood for me has not been without its excitement. Really its...

:tearinghair::tearinghair: Makes me want to tear my hair out! He was switched from 54mg of Concerta to help him get his work done to 30 mg of Metadate ER. I love that he ate a huge dinner that is definitely a plus, and I am hoping that he will get to sleep before 11 pm or midnight tonight...

It's been about a year since I've been here. difficult child is driving me and everyone/thing crazy. He has to be pestering something at all times, or messing something up, breaking something, constantly talking/making noise, etc. He has to be constantly bugging me, CONSTANT COMPLAINING. Today I washed...

I have a question fro everyone. Do our difficult child's ever "grow out of this" ?? My difficult child is 12 (13 in December) and although I now believe he has suffered from ADHD/ODD for many years I was not aware (in denial!) of it until 2 yrs ago. I dont know if I can handle the thought of this going on his whole...

Just curious about what I'm seeing in difficult child 2 today. For anyone who read my latter post in the thread about ripping the classmate's jacket... difficult child 2 had a lot of energy after school today. He was really happy and upbeat. While waiting to pick up difficult child 1 in front of school, he asked to get out of...

Hey all, I have a question last week my son got diagnosed with adjustment disorder and conduct disorder. That was his first visit. Today he went for his second visit and she says we need to talk about medicating him for adhd. Now generally I would think this over for a good long while, and...

Wow. difficult child is so off the wall lately in the morning before his patch kicks in. It is crazy. I am also wondering if he is a little hypomanic, as he has been irritable at times and Thursday he was up at who knows when. I was up at 5am, and he was up playing with legos(at least he was quiet...

took difficult child's medications by mistake this morning!!!! I had just finished getting both our medications ready and got myself a bottle of water. Had his medications in my hands and then in my mouth when I happened to look down to see my medications in a container right next to them-yikes!! Thankfully I hadn't swallowed and...

We had a great meeting yesterday. Manster's teacher kept telling the rest of the group that he was one of his best students and even through he'd had a couple of bad weeks those weeks were better than 30 percent of the class' best. It was nice to hear. The 6th grade team with the exception of...

Hi all. It has been a long time. TO update: I was in school this semester. Trying to get certified in medical billing so I can work from home.. Sammy has been doing ok for the most part. This week he was "suspended" for the day because he was hitting. I told them thank you for rewarding...

Posting in this forum because my daughter is almost 6, and heading into a more "mature" level of childhood (ha. ideally). Okay - so she made the elite gymnastics team when she just turned 5 - she's amazing, maybe the best and youngest on the team. Ex let her skip when she "had a belly ache", so...

Hi there, Just wondering about clonidine for adhd symptoms. My difficult child currently is doing well on Lithium (600mg/day) for mood. Thank G-D, he has been rage free for almost 2 months. Now we are trying to deal with hyperactivity symptoms. We have gone through so many medications it would take forever to...

I feel totally defeated by my 13 year old son. He has always been difficult to deal with mentally, but when he was younger I could handle it. The last 2 years have been exhausting. Every day is a battle to get him up and to school. He has been suspended numerous times for disrespecting...

J had a big tantrum this evening. I suppose that's the word for it - one could also call it an explosion, or a grand voiding of emotion/fatigue/over-stimulation. We had a quiet morning at home, J watching television and me reading him stories, then he went out for a bit to visit the 3 year...

It's not pretty. Ex is of the mindset that the cure is worse than the disease.. or something like that. Blaming the very issues that precipiated medications ON the medications now. Manster decided not to take the night time ones because he wanted to stay up later (clonidine) and then forgot the morning ones...

Last school year was so nice for us as far as difficult child was concerned. One of those reasons is difficult child went to an alternative school site during the afternoons. Because it was a district wide program the bus dropped him off at our house!!!! He no longer needed to be dropped off at my school. Now that...