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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 635781" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>Day six of 25mg (and J's seventh birthday...). We spent the morning together - no school as special treat, and he went to ride a pony after opening his presents, etc.</p><p></p><p>He was bright and cheerful enough until mid-day, when he started becoming irritable and very low, "flat", as well as visibly sleepy, nearly dropping off in the taxi to school. He seems, and really there is no other way to put it, drugged up - no longer hyperactive and much easier to manage, but at what price?</p><p></p><p>This may of course all wear off as side effects of the new (and target) dosage. There is also the option of giving the pill at night. But despite the real benefits we have seen so far - in football, for example, he is another child who, for the first time, is really able to play - if this is the cost of them, it is too high to pay. It is as though he is without personality, somehow, his natural, vibrant, larger than life zest and joy all extinguished.</p><p></p><p>This is why the medications are so difficult, I think. Life without them is so very difficult for the child and yet...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 635781, member: 11227"] Day six of 25mg (and J's seventh birthday...). We spent the morning together - no school as special treat, and he went to ride a pony after opening his presents, etc. He was bright and cheerful enough until mid-day, when he started becoming irritable and very low, "flat", as well as visibly sleepy, nearly dropping off in the taxi to school. He seems, and really there is no other way to put it, drugged up - no longer hyperactive and much easier to manage, but at what price? This may of course all wear off as side effects of the new (and target) dosage. There is also the option of giving the pill at night. But despite the real benefits we have seen so far - in football, for example, he is another child who, for the first time, is really able to play - if this is the cost of them, it is too high to pay. It is as though he is without personality, somehow, his natural, vibrant, larger than life zest and joy all extinguished. This is why the medications are so difficult, I think. Life without them is so very difficult for the child and yet... [/QUOTE]
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