My son has recently started on these tablets 20mg to start, then dropping to 15mg. School thought he was too out of it on the higher dose, I see no benefit from him taking them as they are short acting and only given for school.
He has autism, learning disability and ADHD so his behaviour has never been great but dear god I fucking hate him on these tablets. School are seeing a positive change so I'm persevering with them. After months of him taking them I'm utterly miserable, he's moody straight from school(he was before meds but not as bad).
He shouts at me nothing is right, demands all sorts then starts crying when I can't or won't get xyc ,he will do nothing straight from school without me pushing and frankly as he's usually ungrateful I think what's the point and we just go home. He torments is aggressive with his brother he's 8 and his brother is 1. After a couple hours I'm shouting as he isn't listening and my youngest is screaming any time he comes near as he's scared, I'm frazzled by lo bed time .
By this point he becomes hyper none stop eating demanding food, squealing spinning around leaping on the furniture, wants to go out, play in the garden, play high energy noisy games., basically everything it's too late for as it's after 9 by this point. I then have temper tantrums as I say no or suggest a board game, toys drawing etc but he's not interested. It's about midnight before he's in bed and I have any time to my self. By that point I'm exhausted, I'm weepy from getting up in morning as I'm constantly sleep deprived, I love him dearly but right now I absolutely hate him, I am full of rage and honestly quite unpleasant to be around right now, vent over.