Wednesday, November 22, 2006
My Star Kyle. (Life with ADHD) Part Nine
So we had the pescription and off we trotted to the local chemist to collect the tablets. We were both quite excited, as the doc had told us how it worked and we wanted to see if he was right.
He had said there were 2 layers in a Concerta tablet, one was a quick release ritalin coating that would get to work almost immediately, and the other was a slow release inner that would work throughout the day.
That meant 1 tablet per day, at least that's what he wanted us to start on, and said we could up it to 2 if it didn't seem to be working too well.
We got the tablets and Kyle couldn't wait to try it out. It was still early morning, so he got the tablet and....
Nope, it wasn't a miracle cure. He calmed down quite quickly, but not lots. Through the day he seemed a tiny tiny tiny bit calmer than he was without tablets, but it was barely noticeable.
We stuck with it, one tablet per day at 8am for the next couple of weeks. It still didn't seem to be kicking in much, so we decided that when he came back from his nans in France (he was going for 3 weeks), we'd up the dosage to 2 tablets per day instead.
All of the kids went to their nans, and although it was bliss to start with, I started getting bored after the first week and couldn't wait for them to come home. I was also really worried about how Kyle would cope with being away from home for so long when he'd just started on the concerta...
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He had said there were 2 layers in a Concerta tablet, one was a quick release ritalin coating that would get to work almost immediately, and the other was a slow release inner that would work throughout the day.
That meant 1 tablet per day, at least that's what he wanted us to start on, and said we could up it to 2 if it didn't seem to be working too well.
We got the tablets and Kyle couldn't wait to try it out. It was still early morning, so he got the tablet and....
Nope, it wasn't a miracle cure. He calmed down quite quickly, but not lots. Through the day he seemed a tiny tiny tiny bit calmer than he was without tablets, but it was barely noticeable.
We stuck with it, one tablet per day at 8am for the next couple of weeks. It still didn't seem to be kicking in much, so we decided that when he came back from his nans in France (he was going for 3 weeks), we'd up the dosage to 2 tablets per day instead.
All of the kids went to their nans, and although it was bliss to start with, I started getting bored after the first week and couldn't wait for them to come home. I was also really worried about how Kyle would cope with being away from home for so long when he'd just started on the concerta...
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# posted by 
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: 12:48 PMFriday, November 10, 2006
My Star Kyle. (Life with ADHD) Part Eight
Time to get back to the story of Kyle, my little Star ;)
As I wrote before, when Kyle stopped taking Ritalin, he crashed right back to the way he was before ever starting medication, yet this time it felt worse. I know it only felt worse because we'd now seen a different, calmer, friendlier and happier side to my little boy.
We trundled on, and asked all kinds of people for tips and ideas, nothing much helped. We've always done a lot of activities to help keep him and the other kids occupied, heck, I even wrote a small book of the common activities we have here at home, so that wasn't what we needed help with. We just needed something that would take away his unhappiness, if even only a little.
A friend of mine in America mentioned Concerta. He said it had been fantastic for his daughter who had been almost exactly the same as Kyle and he recommended that we try it out. So we did a lot of researching on the net, and finally decided to ask our doctor about it. He was quite taken aback at first when he realized everything we knew about Concerta and he told us it wasn't 'really' available here in the UK due to how much it costs. Seemingly it's 7x more expensive than Ritalin.
Kyle said 'I don't care how much it costs you, you have to let me try it, because it might work and it might not'. LOL, did I ever mention how grown up he is in many ways?
The specialist agreed to letting us try the Concerta and sent us on our way with a prescription and a new appointment. Would the Concerta help any? There was only one way to find out...
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As I wrote before, when Kyle stopped taking Ritalin, he crashed right back to the way he was before ever starting medication, yet this time it felt worse. I know it only felt worse because we'd now seen a different, calmer, friendlier and happier side to my little boy.
We trundled on, and asked all kinds of people for tips and ideas, nothing much helped. We've always done a lot of activities to help keep him and the other kids occupied, heck, I even wrote a small book of the common activities we have here at home, so that wasn't what we needed help with. We just needed something that would take away his unhappiness, if even only a little.
A friend of mine in America mentioned Concerta. He said it had been fantastic for his daughter who had been almost exactly the same as Kyle and he recommended that we try it out. So we did a lot of researching on the net, and finally decided to ask our doctor about it. He was quite taken aback at first when he realized everything we knew about Concerta and he told us it wasn't 'really' available here in the UK due to how much it costs. Seemingly it's 7x more expensive than Ritalin.
Kyle said 'I don't care how much it costs you, you have to let me try it, because it might work and it might not'. LOL, did I ever mention how grown up he is in many ways?
The specialist agreed to letting us try the Concerta and sent us on our way with a prescription and a new appointment. Would the Concerta help any? There was only one way to find out...
Anna
p.s. If you'd like to check out the book I mentioned Click Here
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hey- damien's on concerta!
we switched after we got to the correct dosage of ritalin, i didn't want him carrying meds around at highschool because some "wise guy" might convince him to sell it...
we switched after we got to the correct dosage of ritalin, i didn't want him carrying meds around at highschool because some "wise guy" might convince him to sell it...
wow, yeah, it doesn't bear thinking about, and we know it WOULD happen...
Yet another reason why I'm so glad I can home educate Kyle. It might be hard, but it's a heck of a lot safer. If we ever move somewhere a bit nicer I expect he'll go back to school, but no way is he going back to school here
Yet another reason why I'm so glad I can home educate Kyle. It might be hard, but it's a heck of a lot safer. If we ever move somewhere a bit nicer I expect he'll go back to school, but no way is he going back to school here
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In case the child is not interested in any of the above, you may want him to join a Boy Scouts club or other community oriented clubs that take up social work. Cleaning a park, putting on a show, helping out in an old age home are various activities that may pique your child's interest.
Whatever form of activity you choose, make sure that you monitor your child's progress periodically. If you feel that there is no progress, you may need to change the activity. Anything that increases your child's self-esteem is good. You may enlist the help of the coach or teacher to assess your child's development.
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now he no longer does gymnastics (transport and school timing caused logistical hassles) but we go to the gym. he loves the circuit because the pre-set time is so fast he doesn't get bored- he gets bored very quickly when we just do cycling or the rowing machines or the treadmill.
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now he no longer does gymnastics (transport and school timing caused logistical hassles) but we go to the gym. he loves the circuit because the pre-set time is so fast he doesn't get bored- he gets bored very quickly when we just do cycling or the rowing machines or the treadmill.
We've tried going to Karate a few times, under protest (from me LOL) but thankfully, Kyle gets bored so we've left early. I'm not too sure I like the idea of him learning Karate as I know he's prone to using it the wrong way. Luckily enough it only lasted 3 half-sessions... Phew :D
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He has, in the past done some after school activities. He has always resisted them for a # of reasons. Now he simply refuses and has huge melt downs at the very mention. We took his computer away from him for a week because of his refusal to go to skating classes last week.
He rejects every suggestion and will force us to physically drag him, which we won't do at this point.
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Any other suggestions for strategies to get him to do something w/o the huge power struggle?
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Any other suggestions for strategies to get him to do something w/o the huge power struggle?
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