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QuickTidal, on 09 June 2025 - 01:00 PM, said:
So we've been trying out different meds for our sons ADHD, and the first one didn't seem to do too much and his focus was still a little wild, and then second one was working for focus, but he still had a few emotional outbursts and seemed sad while doing events that should make him happy (like rides at the amusement park) so we asked to switch again, but then he tried this new type of med and he was on it for two days...day one he was up in the middle of the night with nightmares and we thought it was a one-off, but then on night 2 my wife was out of town and he came to me TERRIFIED. He said he heard a mans voice in his room, and footsteps, and noises in the walls. ...So I looked up this new med and the MAIN side effect on the mental side is auditory hallucinations. Like the Paediatrician didn't tel us this was possible? I'm a little annoyed. Anyways, the poor lad was so scared so I let him sit up with me a while and then asked if he would rather sleep on the inflatable mattress in his sisters room to have company and not be scared and he said yeah. So I set him up and his sister comforted him. I told him that I believed him in what he heard and that it was probably his meds and that I would make sure he'd never have to take those again. Then I sat on the stairs outside her room and wept. I felt HORRIBLE that we'd given him a medication that would produce these things and make him so scared in his own house, in his own room. I sat there for 2 hours to make sure he was okay and didn't wake up scared again until my wife came home, and she picked him up and brought him into our room to keep an eye on him while he slept.
Needless to say that we didn't re-administer that medication the next day. I'm so dejected by the search for the medication that will work and how some of them seem to work in some ways and not at all in others. This process is not easy on him, and it's not easy on us either. I just want him to be happy, and safe, and cared for.
Daughter goes for a psychoeducational evaluation (a comprehensive assessment of a student's cognitive, academic, and socio-emotional functioning) on Friday, she's more than a grade behind in reading and writing. This was recommended to us by more than a few teachers and administrators who work with her. So that's another thing to have to struggle through.
Some weeks parenting is way harder than even you'd think it is. It's super emotionally draining.
Needless to say that we didn't re-administer that medication the next day. I'm so dejected by the search for the medication that will work and how some of them seem to work in some ways and not at all in others. This process is not easy on him, and it's not easy on us either. I just want him to be happy, and safe, and cared for.
Daughter goes for a psychoeducational evaluation (a comprehensive assessment of a student's cognitive, academic, and socio-emotional functioning) on Friday, she's more than a grade behind in reading and writing. This was recommended to us by more than a few teachers and administrators who work with her. So that's another thing to have to struggle through.
Some weeks parenting is way harder than even you'd think it is. It's super emotionally draining.
This is all really hard, and I'm sorry that latest medication was so awful for him. I'm amazed the paediatrician didn't flag that possibility up in flashing neon letters!
Has there been any development with the girl who was being awful to your daughter at school?
This post has been edited by TheRetiredBridgeburner: Today, 01:32 PM
