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Originally Posted by rgcraig
Felicity,
You can have ADD without the hyperactivity. My daughter is this way. She was tested and in comprehension she was very, very low, however as most ADD students, she is almost boderline gifted in other areas.
She can only focus on one thing at a time and cannot be interupted or she forgets what she was going to say. She took Concerta for her junior year in HS and made straight A's as the result of it. I could even tell a difference in her handwritting. However, she didn't like the "feeling" the meds gave her and after we discussed it, winged off of them and decided lesser grades were better than having that weird feeling taking the meds.
I do believe meds have been over prescribed through the years for sure.
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My son has ADD also. He took Ritalin from first grade and a difference was seen immediately, but I took him off in third grade due to listening to people tell me about drug effects and such.
That was a mistake. He barely made it through fourth grade, so I put him back on it. In eighth grade, Ritalin didn't seem to be effective anymore, so I put him on Concerta, however, that didn't seem to regulate in his body well. There were days he looked and acted drugged and other days it didn't seem that he took it at all, so I took him off and put him back on Ritalin again.
My mom talked to him that summer and convinced him to get off of it. I am still pretty upset about that, but he's now a sophomore and doesn't want to take anything. I'd love to get him on Strattera because I think it would serve him better, but he said he doesn't want to take anything.
In the meantime, he struggles through school. He barely passes his classes even though he is a gifted student intellectually. I am helpless and just hope that things get better in the future.
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