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any non-stimulant adhd meds that work?

Allison - posted on 02/06/2010 ( 1 mom has responded )

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my 9 year old daughter was taking concerta for a year. she was on the highest dose available. it was working great. she had minor sleep problems, but i found that melatonin helped those. but she lost 7 pounds over the course of a year. that put her at about 50-51 lbs. at 4 ft tall. so her doc took her off cold turkey (ex husbands idea, not mine) she started straterra. the low dose of straterra combined with the aparent withdrawl symptoms from the conterta cold turkey, made her a crazy mess for about 2 weeks. she has gotten over the withdrawls, but the straterra does not work. she has emotional outbursts, temper tantrums the likes of which she hasnt has since she was 5 or 6. she is starting to allieanate friends, and have problems again in school.
i heard that intuniv is a good medication that is a non stimulant? has anyone had any success with this.
we can not put her back on stimulant meds until she has gained a few more pounds. and since she is already a picky eater this make take a while.

any help or suggestion about meds is greaty appreciated.

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Taran - posted on 03/01/2010

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I wish I could help, the only non-stimulant med I've heard of is Strattera... a friend of mine is on it and it works well for her, but that's all I know. I feel for you about the weight loss. My daughter lost 5 lbs the first month she was on Dexedrine (when she was 6) (though I think that was exacerbated by an episode of flu where she didn't eat for a week). She's currently on Adderall but it definitely still affects her appetite... she almost never eats her lunch at school. She's 4' 3" and still growing, though her weight is pretty much holding steady at 60 lbs. It's also hard to get her to eat a major breakfast, just the way her physiology is in the morning, I guess. Mostly I try to get her to finish her lunch when she gets home from school. The doctor also said concentrade on energy-rich foods... peanut butter, nuts, cheese, etc. My husband and I argue periodically about putting junk food in her lunch (she will eat that, and at least get the calories, but I worry then that she's won't get the few nutrients during the day that she does now from the two or three bites of healthy lunch she actually eats). She's not a fundamentally picky eater, though, and she eats a good supper. We also don't medicate her on the weekends (though sometimes it's tempting), so that she can eat better then. Sometimes I'm amazed at how much she eats on the weekends!

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