Posted by Sur5orType on January 10, 2003, at 16:19:41
I am the father of an 8 year old child who helped to get Strattera approved. He has been part of the open label study for almost two years.
He takes 25m in the am and 25 again at night.
Before that, he took adderol, which I COULD NOT STAND. I hated the way it made him seem like a zombie.
His reaction to this new drug is enough to make me real encouraged for both Jim, Christina and Nicole.
His improvement over the last couple of years has been great.
He has been concentrating and has been a lot less hyper, though, like a normal 8 year old, he still is a fidgeter.
A word to the wise for you, (this is kind of cool, being able to speak from experience for all of you) Make sure you take your dose when you are supposed to. It is not a long-lasting effect from what I can tell. If he did not get his dose in the afternoon, he tends to wind up pretty fast.
I know what you mean about the dry throat and the appetite. He was a real two-fisted eater (like me, his father) when he started. He was even a little chunky and now has a normal, if not a spare appetite.
I try to get him to eat before or at the same time as his evening dose, and it has never been a severe disinterest in food, just that he ate less.
He complains occasionaly about a dry throat, but never about a funny taste in his mouth. An 8 year old might not see it that way.
I wish all of you a lot of luck. I think it has done wonders for my son.
I can not say how happy I was to see him off of adderol. I still remember VIVIDLY the first few months on Strattera (we called it Tomoxetine) and how happy I was to have him improve so far, and fast.
I heard some comments about people that "prefer" adderol. Well, this is one person that did not prefer to see his son take adderol. I don't want to see him hyper, but making a zombie out of him was not the answer. I could not stand the tics. Someone asked that question, and I can tell you, it doesn't seem to give him tics, or anything like that.
So, you can have your adderol. I am glad my son got the opportunity to use something with side effects that would still allow him to function.
Again, good luck all.
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