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Name: wjcerise

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My son is 7 years old he has been diagnosed with ADHD sense he was 3. He had been on and off many medications and each of the meds have had a reaction such as his beahavior would be better for a few months and then the meds would stop working this is with the increases and switches through this time. One med cause something else to act up so he would be placed on a different med for that symptom. After 4 years of this this past 2 weeks me and my husband both decided to take him off all his meds except the Tenex and got natural pills to help with focus and impulsiveness. The only reason we took him off his meds which a total of 5 was because they stopped working. He has been out of school for a week due to me and my husbands refusal of him going back into the hospital for a week of observation and treatment. Our son's mental state is really went from bad to worse he continues to hit his teachers and run away from everyone including me and my husband and the only thing that holds his attention longer then a few minutes is video games and we are so sick of this too! We need some advice from parents going through these issues and we want to do this as natural as possible diet change ect. any help? Please!! We are running out of options here ↓

Name: Shawnya | Date: Nov 13th, 2012 5:59 PM

I can relate to this very much, I often struggle with the same decision, meds or no meds. My son, 10, has been diagnosed with ADHD, ODD, mood disorders since he was 6 years old. We have been thru a few stimulant meds, now on zoloft 25mg, concerta 27mg, & Intutive 1mg. This seems to work for now, he still stuggles with homework. Teachers and Administration do not seem to understand his special needs or my concern for him. He is bullied often, sometimes he lashed back days even weeks later. He has been black balled by the school as a "bad behavior kid", I can not get the school to meet his accomodations even with pysch evals and 504 plan. On meds he can make straight A's without he makes ZEROS. I do not have all the answers, I do try to make the best choices for him. He does not refuse any meds and is kind, sweet, & caring while on the meds. Off his meds, he is violent, rude, disrespectful, an utter mess. Sleep is an issue, we use melatonin 5mg for now, this has always worked. VIDEO GAMES & TV are the worst things for my son as this makes him more violent. Each time we change meds it seems to alter his personality. This has been a long journey for our family. If you do a little research on where ADHD is stimulated from. You will learn that often it comes from the TV digital images. For example, when your child is watching TV the brain interepts those images faster than the light of speed and at any given point on the TV screen VS when your child sits to read a book, the pages do not move and the words are still black and white images. We know as adults to read left to right, top to bottom. Once I learned all this we took TV & video games out of our house for 3 years. This made a huge impact on our lives. This gave us more time to read, get work done, talk together, work through the daily struggles of living with a special needs child. I do not condone hitting or stiking my son. I recognize he has a disability and would not strike him if he were in a wheel chair. I spend a lot of time researching about ADHD and how to help him. I could go on and on. ↑