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Post by sweetnsilly26 on Aug 13, 2008 7:28:26 GMT -5
My daughter had been on vyvanse for all last school year, shes been on meds since she was 5. When we went in for her well child check up she is small for 10 and only weighed 56lbs. So the doc said to go on med vacation for the summer wich was at the end of june and in a month she gained to 63lbs, thats 7lbs, which really looks good on her, but now school is starting back friday and I don't wanna giver her the meds anymore, its hard to deal with her without them,but i have dealt with it and she will fail without them, i don't know what to do. I'm scared if we start the meds again she will lose the weight she has gained, any advise???
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Post by puzzled on Aug 13, 2008 9:22:46 GMT -5
My daughter had been on vyvanse for all last school year, shes been on meds since she was 5. When we went in for her well child check up she is small for 10 and only weighed 56lbs. So the doc said to go on med vacation for the summer wich was at the end of june and in a month she gained to 63lbs, thats 7lbs, which really looks good on her, but now school is starting back friday and I don't wanna giver her the meds anymore, its hard to deal with her without them,but i have dealt with it and she will fail without them, i don't know what to do. I'm scared if we start the meds again she will lose the weight she has gained, any advise??? There is a med she can take to stimulate appetite. It is called 'periactin' (generic 'cyproheptadine') that is an antihistamine...and older form of allergy pill, that has the happy sided affect for kids like ours, of stimulating appetite. It has also been used in anorexic patients and in the elderly for the same reason. Ask your doctor about prescribing this for your child. Within 4-5 days of beginning this med (while on Concerta with NO appetite at all) my son was HUNGRY after school for the first time while on the Concerta. I did not tell him it was for appetite, he has allergies, I simply told him it was for that, I wanted a true test of the drug's ability to make him hungry. He gained back the weight he had lost and then some, maintaining a normal appetite despite being on the ADHD med. |
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Post by charliegirl on Aug 13, 2008 14:20:00 GMT -5
Have you considered taking med holidays on weekends and/or holidays? She could take the Vyvanse when she needs it for school or an important social function and just skip it when she is going to be home with the family.
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Post by squirrelgirl on Aug 13, 2008 15:33:03 GMT -5
Puzzled, thanks for the information.
sweetnsilly, I don't have much to add since we're in the same boat. All I can say is that we keep our kitchen open until ds closes his eyes for sleep at night. I just keep doling out the chow no matter how late it is. Sometimes he wakes up in the middle of the night for a bathroom break and if he asks for food, I grab a few crackers and milk and he nibbles himself back to sleep - crumbs and all.
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Post by puzzled on Aug 14, 2008 20:36:07 GMT -5
Puzzled, thanks for the information. sweetnsilly, I don't have much to add since we're in the same boat. All I can say is that we keep our kitchen open until ds closes his eyes for sleep at night. I just keep doling out the chow no matter how late it is. Sometimes he wakes up in the middle of the night for a bathroom break and if he asks for food, I grab a few crackers and milk and he nibbles himself back to sleep - crumbs and all. You are welcome, I know it saved my sanity. I had researched and researched and stumbled on it one day on another website, then my daughter and I researched the heck out of it, and could find nothing really to discourage my trying it for Chase, except for a few parents saying that the child needed to take breaks from it from time to time to make it effective again. In Chase's case, since he is off the stim on summer break, we have had him off the periactin all summer too. I must say, as an antihistamine it is useless, LOL, Claritin works so much better....but what we do is use Flonase for his nasal allergies when he needs it, because he cannot take two antihistimines at once....it works out, because his hayfever is worst late summer, and he is off the stim for most of the season, so he is off the periactin, and we use the claritin instead. I too did med vacations on weekends and holidays from school, but all it really did for Chase is help him maintain, he never got the late evening munchies like so many kids do, he was just never hungry and never gained till we began the periactin, and then the tenex. |
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Post by jill on Aug 16, 2008 7:47:21 GMT -5
Have you considered taking med holidays on weekends and/or holidays? She could take the Vyvanse when she needs it for school or an important social function and just skip it when she is going to be home with the family. *This is what I do but we have the opposite problem my girl is chunking up and I am terrified over this due to diabetes running in the family. |
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