Comments on: Pill Guilt http://www.clairdevers.com/2009/12/pill-guilt/ A place for all things Clair. Enter at your own risk. Mon, 30 Aug 2010 06:02:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: clair.devers http://www.clairdevers.com/2009/12/pill-guilt/comment-page-1/#comment-20 clair.devers Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:28:53 +0000 http://www.clairdevers.com/?p=178#comment-20 Hi Julie - Thanks for sharing your story. I think you are right about it being a full time job. I don't think everyone understood how much time I put into making sure Noah didn't get too far behind. It felt like every minute of the day was spent hovering over him. You try so many things like encentives and punishments, but in the end he just felt like a failure. This has been a wonderful thing for the whole family. A much happier home. And Noah seems to be really proud of himself which is a great change. I hope you get the medicine worked out. We had to increase the dosage a little because he was running out of steam in his last class (PE) and he was a bit grumpy when I would pick him up. The increase seems to have helped. The only problems he has are with sleeping - which he already had issues with. Good luck and may your patience rarely fail (best we can hope for some days!). Hi Julie – Thanks for sharing your story. I think you are right about it being a full time job. I don’t think everyone understood how much time I put into making sure Noah didn’t get too far behind. It felt like every minute of the day was spent hovering over him. You try so many things like encentives and punishments, but in the end he just felt like a failure. This has been a wonderful thing for the whole family. A much happier home. And Noah seems to be really proud of himself which is a great change.

I hope you get the medicine worked out. We had to increase the dosage a little because he was running out of steam in his last class (PE) and he was a bit grumpy when I would pick him up. The increase seems to have helped. The only problems he has are with sleeping – which he already had issues with. Good luck and may your patience rarely fail (best we can hope for some days!).

]]> By: Julie Coble http://www.clairdevers.com/2009/12/pill-guilt/comment-page-1/#comment-19 Julie Coble Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:50:29 +0000 http://www.clairdevers.com/?p=178#comment-19 Just wanted to say "thanks" for your article. My son was diagnosed with ADD in first grade, but being an RN and knowing all the side effects, I chose not to medicate. Grade school was fairly difficult trying to stay on top of things but he made honor roll. THEN CAME MIDDLE SCHOOL! By the second 9 weeks of 6th grade, Jacob had evidentally accumlated multiple zero's in several classes due to not doing homework and no one from the school bothered to call or e-mail me. We did not have infinite campus at that time so there was no way to check his grades. He was making A's and B's on classwork but COULD NOT remember to bring home his homework AND couldn't remember to write it down on his agenda. Met with all of his teachers who told me that they didn't see evidence of ADD but too much talking, which made no sense to me because he was doing fine in class. FINALLY, after multiple in depth conversations, grounding, rewards, etc., I realized that he just couldn't help it. I made an appt. with the only pediatrician in this small town that would treat ADD. He promptly prescribed Vyvanse. My son took Vyvanse for about 2 months in 7th grade. He was irritable when I picked him up from school stating that he had eaten nothing all day and that his stomach and head hurt. He hated it. We once again began trying alternative methods, writing homework on the agenda, me checking on infinite campus every day, etc. He could pull A's and B's for one 9 weeks, then it would be back to the same old problem. He is in 8th grade currently, just recently changed schools due to bullying and the old devil has reared it's ugly head again, 0's on homework. Restarted Vyvanse today. Hope to stick with it this time. My son just HATES the way it make him feel and I feel guilty for making him feel bad. I feel for ALL of you parents on here posting your blogs. I've never dealt with or been around anyone with ADD and it's about to give me a nervous breakdown. It is a full-time job just trying to keep your child on task and making decent grades besides running a household and working full-time. But, his future is my responsbility so I'll do whatever I have to do to help him succeed in life! Just wanted to say “thanks” for your article. My son was diagnosed with ADD in first grade, but being an RN and knowing all the side effects, I chose not to medicate. Grade school was fairly difficult trying to stay on top of things but he made honor roll. THEN CAME MIDDLE SCHOOL! By the second 9 weeks of 6th grade, Jacob had evidentally accumlated multiple zero’s in several classes due to not doing homework and no one from the school bothered to call or e-mail me. We did not have infinite campus at that time so there was no way to check his grades. He was making A’s and B’s on classwork but COULD NOT remember to bring home his homework AND couldn’t remember to write it down on his agenda. Met with all of his teachers who told me that they didn’t see evidence of ADD but too much talking, which made no sense to me because he was doing fine in class. FINALLY, after multiple in depth conversations, grounding, rewards, etc., I realized that he just couldn’t help it. I made an appt. with the only pediatrician in this small town that would treat ADD. He promptly prescribed Vyvanse. My son took Vyvanse for about 2 months in 7th grade. He was irritable when I picked him up from school stating that he had eaten nothing all day and that his stomach and head hurt. He hated it. We once again began trying alternative methods, writing homework on the agenda, me checking on infinite campus every day, etc. He could pull A’s and B’s for one 9 weeks, then it would be back to the same old problem. He is in 8th grade currently, just recently changed schools due to bullying and the old devil has reared it’s ugly head again, 0’s on homework. Restarted Vyvanse today. Hope to stick with it this time. My son just HATES the way it make him feel and I feel guilty for making him feel bad. I feel for ALL of you parents on here posting your blogs. I’ve never dealt with or been around anyone with ADD and it’s about to give me a nervous breakdown. It is a full-time job just trying to keep your child on task and making decent grades besides running a household and working full-time. But, his future is my responsbility so I’ll do whatever I have to do to help him succeed in life!

]]> By: Hayden http://www.clairdevers.com/2009/12/pill-guilt/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Hayden Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:11:52 +0000 http://www.clairdevers.com/?p=178#comment-14 I took similar meds for a while, but they didn't affect me good or bad. Glad its working out well with Noah. I took similar meds for a while, but they didn’t affect me good or bad. Glad its working out well with Noah.

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