My son was diagnosed with ADHD a year and a half ago. He is 9 years old now and going into the 4th grade. He began taking adderall at first and did quite well on it except for the fact that he was not eating very well. The dr prescribed another medication to help stimulate his eating and that just didn't seem to work either. We went to the doctor this past month to see if putting him on another medication would help with the eating and it hasn't yet. He was 82lbs before he was diagnosed and today I weighed him and he is at 71lbs and I'm getting very concerned. According to the weight percantile online he is at the 64th percentile so he is still not underweight but his legs are getting so thin and his shorts barely fit on him and it really is upsetting.
I have a feeling I'm going to have to call the doctor again to get him in there because he just doesn't eat. Even if it is something he likes, he only eats a few bites of it. I'm just so frustrated and don't know what to do at this point. He won't try anything new to eat as he is a very picky eater and now even the foods he does like he eats very little. Has anyone else experienced the same issues and how did they get resolved?




