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Originally posted by carnation
We had 3 of our children evaluated for ADD and 2 have it: an 8-year-old boy and a 9-year-old girl. Reading this as well as researching it online for months, I'm pretty sure that our 17-year-old daughter has it. It's apparently rather common in adopted children because many of them are firstborn and suffered from oxygen deprivation at birth.
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Again, Carnation, we have something in common. Our nine-year-old adopted Asian girl was diagnosed this year at the beginning of third grade, at my insistence, by our pediatrician. (At the end of second grade, she was beginning to take forever to get her work finished, even though she understood what she was doing, and was not causing disturbances in class. She is also very bright. She was of the quiet, took forever to do her work type of ADD, which usually takes longer to recognize.) Her third grade teacher agreed that I was on target to do so, and did her part in filling out her side of the paperwork. Our pediatrician put her on 10 mg. of Adderall. The difference in her work, within a week. was absolutely amazing. She finished up the year with A's in every subject for the year, and received more honor certificates than anyone else in her class. Our doctor said that if a child truly needs that chemical imput, the results will be quick and amazing, and so it was. She does not take it on weekends, nor during the summer, but we will start her on it again a week before school starts. She has had no side affects. I am SO glad that I insisted we do something about her before it continued for a long time.
Let me just add, too, that my husband is a physician, so he's long heard of all the hype surrounding Ritalyn and Adderall, as well as everything else under the sun, and he was totally supportive of her pediatrician prescribing Adderall. He says that it is always the bad PR that you hear the most about concerning any meds or treatment, and that the public is usually unaware of the statistics involved, which make a huge difference in the actual reality of a situation.
ADPiAkron, here's hoping you'll receive the same wonderful help that my daughter received!!