Remember the old Ed Sullivan show, and the guy who ran up and down the line of spinning plates, keeping them all going on top of the sticks? (You have to be of a certain age to remember this.) Well, that's me. I've got a lot of plates spinning, and I'm a little bit frantic trying to keep any of them from toppling
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I've seen studies and heard lots of anecdotal stories about people who took the medicine only when they needed it for certain tasks (such as schoolwork or job tasks), and didn't take it other times, and were fine with that. There's no "withdrawal" or anything like that, though people can get irritable right when they are wearing off. It's also important to realize that ADD can be mild, moderate, or severe, and to adjust the use and dosage of medicine accordingly. I think K's case is mild-to-moderate, enough that it is definitely interfering with his school work. So my attitude is, given the absence of any evidence that the medicine is harmful and the preponderance of evidence that it might help, why not try it?
So far we're good as far as K's other medicine goes, thanks for asking.
xoxo
M
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