Re: Vyvanse – feeling calm with new med

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Carrie, if your dexedrine only lasts 4-5 hours, why wouldn’t you be able to take a third? It should wear off around 6pm if you take it at 2pm. That is the dosing schedule the paediatrician put my son on (though Ritalin, not dex). We are not up to three doses per day though, so I can’t tell you if it affects his sleep yet, as he is early in the drug treatment and is to start with the two doses today, after one dose yesterday. Anyway, I have always been the sort to prefer afternoon/evening shifts (I work nights now), as I would get home from an early shift and be useless for the rest of the day, I was so tired, but it was nothing to do with medications and everything to do with me hating early mornings. I prefer to ease into my morning gently 😉

Nellie and SG, it’s been good to follow your medication trials, seeing what the meds help with and what they don’t. My son has started his meds and it’s been an improvement for sure. Of course it’s too early in the piece to have a good picture of how much/little the Ritalin helps across the parts of his life, but it’s been a good start. I am just waiting for school to go back so we can get a real picture of the medication’s effect, as it is at school that his ADHD affects him the most, although I am starting to think that it affects him at home more than we realised, based on things we are noticing when he has medication on board.

I am thinking that once my son goes on longer acting Ritalin (Concerta or similar) we will keep the short acting Ritalin handy for those days when he forgets to take his meds, or sleeps in too long. Then we can give him two doses of the short acting stuff to see him through the day instead of missing a day’s dose entirely. We certainly have been prescribed a decent amount of it – will have to check to see if previous prescriptions are negated by new ones (considering the governmental hoops the doc had to jump through to write the script), or whether the doc had this sort of future use in mind when he prescribed 5 repeats of 100 tablets each! I guess the short acting ones also allow more flexibility if he participates in “shift work” type activities too, so we could drop the long acting one for a day or two and tailor the short acting medication doses to suit the needs of the day(s). Will have to remember to ask the doc about using the two different dosage forms in that way. Should be okay, from my nursing point of view, as it’s not a sudden cessation of the drug.

Anyway, enough of my rabbiting on. It’s nice to see how others are going on their medications, so thanks for keeping the thread going!

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