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Friday, December 05, 2008 JP asks

Q: WHAT DO I DO

HELLO , MY SON CODY SUFFERS FROM ADHD. IM REALLY CONCERNED LATELY CODY HAS BEEN A DIFFERENT PERSON AT HOME AND ESSPECIALLY AT SCHOOL.VERY ARGUMENTATIVE AT HOME AND ACTS IMMATURE WHEN SCOLDED. MY BIGGEST CONCERN IS SCHOOL LATLEY HE'S BEEN HIGH FIVING HIS FRIENDS IN THE HALLWAY AND ALOT MORE PHYSICALLY AGGRESSIVE TO FELLOW STUDENTS.(HIGH 5 ING IN THOMPSON MIDDLE SCHOOL IS A FORM OF ASSAULT,VERY STRANGE) ANY WAY CODY HAS BEEN ON ADDERAL 15-20MGS FOR ABOUT 2-3 YEARS BUT NOW HES REALLY AGGRESSIVE. WHAT DO I DO? ALSO IM VERY CONCERNED THAT HE ALSO HAS A LEARNING DISORDER W/ S TERM MEMORY. HE'S 13 NOW AND IM TRYING TO PREPARE HIM FOR THE FUTURE BY TALKING ABOUT WHAT HE WANTS TO DO WITH HIS LIFE SUCH AS CARRERS.  IVE SHOWED HIM EVERYTHING I CAN THINK OF AND BROUGHT HIM TO THE LOCAL TRADE SCHOOL TO GIVE HIM IDEAS BUT HE SHOWS LITTLE TO NO INTREST. IM VERY CONCERNED FOR HIM BECAUSE I DONT WANT MY SON TO WORK IN A LOW PAYING FACTORY JOB FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE. ANY SUGGESTIONS?

 

P.S MY SONS SCHOOL IS THREATNING TO SUSPEND HIM FOR HIS AGGRESSIVENESS, IS THIS LEGAL? CONSIDERING HIS HAS A MAJOR DISABILITY?

 

YOUR TULY JP BRICAULT

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12/ 6/08 12:12pm

To me it sounds like the main problem is the adderall, i used to take adderall XR 20mg and I like it at first but barely anytime later I started to hate it. Adderall has a negative feeling after it reaches its peak which probably brings out the aggression in him that you were talking about. So what I did was I switched to Vyvanse it has less almost no felling of aggression after the peak of the medicines performance. It also kicks in faster than Adderall. The main thing that I am saying here is switch him to vyvanse the doseages are 20, 30 , 40, 50 ,60,and 70mg capsules.

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By JP— Last Modified: 12/12/10, First Published: 12/05/08