PUMP PILLS? Is that what we do when include medication for AD/HD? I didn't know. I thought ... i was giving my children medication they needed, just as they needed an antibiotic if they had strep throat.
Why not experiment with their foods? Because it can affect their nutrition. It's really important that they get enough calcium and vitamin D (which is hard to get, actually) -- because men can get osteoporosis too.
I don't mind debating diet but I don't think one side should insult the other, and that's how I feel about saying "pumping pills."
I definately was speaking on my own experiences regarding the pills and apologize, didn't mean to push the wrong buttons. So I'll give a little back ground without talking too much.
In my experience with my son's ADHD, he's either has it or he doesn't or he might...and he might have Bi-polar, or ODD or anxiety disorder. So to start, I'm already confused and not feeling confident in what people are telling me. Then it's take this drug for this, and that drug for that. But then when one doesn't work, we'll try another. He was only 6 years old, and I had no idea what his diagnosis was, and what medication he was taking, and what it was doing, and how it was supposed to work.... And trust me, I didn't just sit back and say, ok doc, tell me what to do. No one can tell me anything for sure. So I feel like my son has become a lab project. And I've already lost sight of the goal. Then I get pressure on the other side from my family of nature freaks (please no one take offence to that, my family is really weird) who are saying, take away milk, move him away from CA, give him more hugs, exercise with him this way, and play this kind of music. And what, he'll be cured? Cured of what? I don't even know what's wrong with him!
I think with (at least) my child who has a "condition" will always need a full spectrum of treatments. I might find a pill that helps with his depression, and a food allergy that helps with his hyper-activity, and an exercise routine that helps with his concentration, and a reward system that helps with his impulse control issues.
So in my defence, my pill pumping comment was sort of meant for the doctors that feel, here's the magic pill that will work...but if it doesn't, come back because there's more where that came from; and not so much at the parents that put in the extra time and effort to find the routine that helps their child to succeed.
Once again, I apologize for my comment. I do truly understand where your defences stem from. I have my own, like when someone tells me my type-I diabetic shouldn't have eaten so many sweets when he was younger (you can ask if you want to know why that makes me mad). I'm new to ADHD, and I have made mention of this. I'm here because I want to understand more. Because no one is helping me through this, and this has been the best place that I can find.
"No one can tell me anything for sure. "
That's entirely different. I don't think people should use any med until *they* are convinced of the diagnosis. It is the diagnostician's job to convince you. If they haven't, then I would say no to meds also.
I would get a second opinion -- sounds as if you have done that -- but absolutely, a *solid* diagnosis should come first.
Anon
Thanks for sticking up for me Misty. 
