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<blockquote data-quote="TiredSoul" data-source="post: 381002" data-attributes="member: 3930"><p>When my son was 5 and in Kindergarten (he is now 8), we started him on stimulants for his ADHD/ODD. This helped tremendously with aggression/defiance at school. It pretty much made it stop. He didn't have any problems in 1st or 2nd grade with aggression at school (ya know - it could have been attributed to better teachers in 1st and 2nd grades or his own maturity for that matter). (At home is a different story.) Now in 3rd grade he has been in one fight at school that resulted in him being suspended for the rest of the day. </p><p></p><p>We started Intuniv 1 mg 12 days ago. He takes it in the morning. He is not sleepy during the day, falls asleep easier at night, but he wakes up in the middle of the night and a couple hours earlier in the morning. He is also having bad dreams. We are supposed to increase his dose to 2mg this week, and I am not sure if it will make it worse or not. So far, I am not sure if we are seeing any benefits of the medication. I would like to take him off of stimulants eventually if we can. The medications scare me too, but without them I think he would have many more problems at school.</p><p></p><p>Good luck whatever you decide.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TiredSoul, post: 381002, member: 3930"] When my son was 5 and in Kindergarten (he is now 8), we started him on stimulants for his ADHD/ODD. This helped tremendously with aggression/defiance at school. It pretty much made it stop. He didn't have any problems in 1st or 2nd grade with aggression at school (ya know - it could have been attributed to better teachers in 1st and 2nd grades or his own maturity for that matter). (At home is a different story.) Now in 3rd grade he has been in one fight at school that resulted in him being suspended for the rest of the day. We started Intuniv 1 mg 12 days ago. He takes it in the morning. He is not sleepy during the day, falls asleep easier at night, but he wakes up in the middle of the night and a couple hours earlier in the morning. He is also having bad dreams. We are supposed to increase his dose to 2mg this week, and I am not sure if it will make it worse or not. So far, I am not sure if we are seeing any benefits of the medication. I would like to take him off of stimulants eventually if we can. The medications scare me too, but without them I think he would have many more problems at school. Good luck whatever you decide. [/QUOTE]
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