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<blockquote data-quote="Hopeforbetterdays" data-source="post: 132066" data-attributes="member: 4790">Thanks for the warm welcome.&nbsp; It's nice to know your not going through this alone and that there are other parents who feel the same way.&nbsp;My son had alot of problems due to him being early.&nbsp; He was born at 27 weeks.&nbsp; He was in the hospital a total of 7 months and then when he did come home I basically became a nurse.&nbsp; He was on oxygen and we had to tube feed him for the first two years of his life.&nbsp; He is a pretty normal kid with the exception of he has a VP shunt in his brain to drain fluid from his brain since his body can't do it himself.&nbsp; He has had so many different surgeries in the past for various things that I have lost count.&nbsp; Now we are dealing with the issues of developmental delay.&nbsp;I believe the diagnosis was correct of ADHD.&nbsp; He has been on Daytrana which is a patch and he has been taking it for one month now and we have seen a change at school and at home.&nbsp; For the first time the teachers are giving postive reports instead of every report being negative.&nbsp; The only side affect is that he is extemely moody about an hour after the patch has been removed. He kicks and hits and won't listen at all.&nbsp; It drains me when he has what we call a meltdown that last for at least an hour.&nbsp; We can't seem to figure out what triggers it.&nbsp; I also wonder if he is jealous of my younger son because if we don't watch him closely he will try to kick and hit him.&nbsp; After reading some of the threads on last night some of the senerio's sound so familiar and that's why I joined and asked for advice.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hopeforbetterdays, post: 132066, member: 4790"] Thanks for the warm welcome. It's nice to know your not going through this alone and that there are other parents who feel the same way. My son had alot of problems due to him being early. He was born at 27 weeks. He was in the hospital a total of 7 months and then when he did come home I basically became a nurse. He was on oxygen and we had to tube feed him for the first two years of his life. He is a pretty normal kid with the exception of he has a VP shunt in his brain to drain fluid from his brain since his body can't do it himself. He has had so many different surgeries in the past for various things that I have lost count. Now we are dealing with the issues of developmental delay. I believe the diagnosis was correct of ADHD. He has been on Daytrana which is a patch and he has been taking it for one month now and we have seen a change at school and at home. For the first time the teachers are giving postive reports instead of every report being negative. The only side affect is that he is extemely moody about an hour after the patch has been removed. He kicks and hits and won't listen at all. It drains me when he has what we call a meltdown that last for at least an hour. We can't seem to figure out what triggers it. I also wonder if he is jealous of my younger son because if we don't watch him closely he will try to kick and hit him. After reading some of the threads on last night some of the senerio's sound so familiar and that's why I joined and asked for advice. [/QUOTE]

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