My Son Has ADHD - Orem,UT

B.,

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B.,
Both of my sons have ADHD (ages 17 & 11) - my daughters (15 & 2) don't-they are just stubborn and stong willed! :)
Both of my guys were very active two year olds- And yes they wore (and still wear) me out. If you would like to chat about it you are welcome to email me - ____@____.com - I can tell you what worked (when they were 2)and what works (now) for us (dealing with a two year old is different than dealing with teenagers and preteens).

T.

I went to a seminar at my children's elementray school where a speaker was doing her masters thesis on brain activity of children with ADHD (her son). She showed us how the brain COMPLETELY SHUTS DOWN neuro connections with sugar intake or negative emotions (feeling worthless etc). She talked about a lot of other things too, but his really stuck out in my mind. She said even a high sugar fruit can do it. Monitoring diet, balancing it, and making sure they keep their sugars till play time instead of school/homework time was key to her son's success in school and at home. I'm sure this was not all she did, but you may want to keep it in the back of your mind.

Hello B.,
My good friend has a son with ADHD and weaning him from his meds and is drinking "Jus". I also know someone who took her son off meds for it when he drank "Jus," the all natural antioxidant drink. Your son needs omegas and high antioxidants and better nutrients which today's foods are depleted of.
Visit the website: www.myjus23.com/susanlamar
and click on "testimonials" then go to Lisa Roberts and hear her talk. I hope that helps. Good luck!!

Dosome research on the Gluten Free and Casin free diets for ADD, Allergies, Asthma, and Autism (they cal it the 4-As). My niece is 6 and has gotten off meds for ADHD. the only problem is that the Oregan school distric will not take her in school without her being on meds. and they can not afford private. so she is actually looking into legal action. I think that the public school actually did end up taking her this year on a wait and see basis with the threat of legal action. Anyway, she is doing great on the diet and no more meds. She also does use Hyland's Forte Calm naturalpathic when she does get wound up after playdates and stuff.

My son is 41 years old . He had ADDH, but no one had labelled it or figured it outat that time. I finally put him on a diet of no food coloring and that worked. For some it does, but itis not generally accepted as treatment. Now his son(our grandson) has it.The best advice I could give is to get treatment, even if it is medication (that dreaded word!)and therapy to help him deal with his feelings. It is very important not to "buy in" to his behavior by responding with yelling, etc. That just makes it worse. Having a history of ADD yourselves makes this harder to do. My son would end up screaming just as bad as his son. One thing in your favor is that because you have had it you understand it. We adopted our son and had not had any experience with ADDH behavior and did not understand it at all. At that stage , neither did his teachers or doctors. Consider yourselves lucky that there are resources now and use them.

If you live in CO, please join our wonderful parent to parent support organization at www.p2p-co.org . We have a great listserv and we match parents together by diagnosis too so you can talk to parents with similar issues. It's the best resource about therapists, doctors, schools, IEPs or 504 plans, playdates, and everything else you need to know about have a kid with special needs. If you live in another state, go to www.nichcy.org and click on parent resources and then your state. You can find the info for your state.

take care, S.

owo, you've gotten some good advice. My sister was told years ago that he some was ADD. She took him to a homeopathic/naturapathic doctor who treated him and took him off dairy. A miracle - complete change, the teacher remommended him for the advanced program. A few months later my sis tried an experiment and gave him a bunch of dairy with his breakfast and the next day she called the teacher to ask how things were going. The teacher (who know she had refused to put her child on drugs) told her whatever you're doing isn't working, yesterday he was right back where we started! Of course that comfirmed it did work - no dairy!

Take a look at some of the latest research, released earlier this year. They've found connections between pushing early learning and ADD and connections with not enough cuddling, diet and several other environmental factors.

Hi B.,
I do not have a child with ADD or ADHD nor have I experienced it. I do however have friends who have children that have ADD/ADHD and they took them to Open Pathways. After a few seesions their kids are off their meds. If you cantact the team at Open Pathways Im sure they would be more than willing to give you numbers to contact the parents of the children.
I know they work with adults also.
Here is their contact info and a website about what they do.
I hope this might you and make your trouble times not so hard.
God Bless,
Ali
www.openpathways.org
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B., I was reading the responses to your request and was wondering if you found anything that has helped you. My close friend has a son who has been on 4 different medications in the last 6 months, he takes adha meds in the daytime and seroquel (for sleep) at night. My son has a social disorder but I have found a school and activities for him that helped. I am not sure about what advise to give her. They don't have a lot of extra money for other schooling options. I told her she needed other options than medications....clearly they are not working. Her son is still emotional, moody, angry, and can become violent. He is having a really hard time in school and with friends. Any suggestions? Thanks for your time....DD

Hi B.: I do understand. My son is almost 8 in two weeks and he was born premature at 31 weeks. About 2 years ago we started checking into ADHD with his starting school and it tooks us until this year to check out 3 drugs. We did Ritalin, very moody and aggressive not like him at all. We then tried Vyvance, and except for lack of appitite(sp?) he did very well in school, very focused and great progress. We thought we would try a different drug to help with the appetite problem and tried Stratta it was major mood swings and my brother is Bipolar so I said no way and took him off very quickly. The start of the school year was rough in 2nd grade. He was not on anything the first week and after one week the teachers where wondering what was going on. He had his moderate needs teacher from last year and a new 2nd grade teacher. They said he was way out of line. I put him back on Vyvance and he is back on track. We have decided to take him to Mental health therapist to help with the mental issues as social and help us find the best way to keep peace within the family. I have seen my brother homeless and in a mental institution and I do not want my son to follow in Uncles footsteps. Seek help where you can. Sorry this is so wordy I wanted you to see what others have tried. I am still wanting to check out Homeopathy I just can't afford it. Feel free to contct me if you want. I am work at home mom. ____@____.com
M.

Hi B.,

I know of a product that has had great results with ADD and ADHD. Since all 3 of you deal with those challenges, I know that this could really have a positive impact on your whole family. You may call me or email me. I would love to help! I work with alot of young moms who are dealing with this. I am 52-have 2 kids who are grown now, but I am very sympathetic with what you are dealing with.

C. Lapp
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I am wondering if you have gotten an official diagnosis yet. Usually, 2 years old is too young to determine if it is ADHD or just part of being a little boy. I have family members with ADHD, and majored in human development, and my experience through both is that you can't really diagnose for a couple more years - even if both you and your husband have ADD/ADHD.
Yes, you want to be proactive. Teach him skills to help him settle down. Avoid overstimulation. Help him find interests to focus on (ADHD is really more of a misplaced attentioon than a lack of it, and the overactive can stem from that). All of these will help him, especially if he does end up with ADHD.
I am not completely opposed to medication (they have so much better stuff now than 20 years ago) but I think that it is important to do all the behavior modification/training first and not medicate unless it is really neccessary.

My daughter is 10 and probably has mild ADD. My son is 7 1/2 and probably has ADHD (I haven't had any diagnoses yet, and I don't care to if it's not neccessary - why pigeon-hole them when I can do a lot myself to help). So if you ever want to chat or ask questions or get support, you can e-mail me: ____@____.com.

I have an 11 year old son and a 6 week old daughter. My son has ADHD and it started coming out at about 2 years old. I found a really good psychiatrist in my town and he would have one on one time with him and one on one time with me and then together. He made some really good suggestions on how to be with him. Consistency is the key. ADHD kids are very different from regualr kids. They HAVE to have a routine and you HAVE to stick with it. This means getting up at the same time to eating at the same time to going to bed at the same time. Everyday. Its really hard to do at times but it does help and it will be h*** o* you and the rest of your family. Emotionally its really hard...you will shed many tears and get extremley frusterated, there will be times where you want to throw your hands in the air and say just do what you want but if you stick with it it will help.
I really suggest getting someone to help you through it talking to the psychologist or psychiatrist. I went through the psychiatrist for almost a year and did a bunch of tests for an hour a day once a week until I would put him on meds. I tell you what they do help. I took my son off for summertimes but he goes back on for the school year. ADHD kids think different, learn different and act different. I know there is a school here in my town that has a support group for ADHD kids and their parents. YOu can ask your doctor for that information.
Hope this helps just a little.

B.,
My son has ADHD also and is on no medication. We have Dr. that totally thinks they have too many side effects on little kids. My husband is ADHD also and is on medicine but when he was younger and on it he told me about suicidal thoughts he would have and we didn't want to do that to him. So, we researched alot and sugar and colors are a trigger. (colors are actually worse than sugar) So, I took my son off sugar and colors for 3 weeks strict. 20grams of sugar is allowed per day. Or natural sugars in the form of fruits. Not juice. Alos, the sugar in milk is not so good. So limit dairy. So anyway, it was hard at first I had to literally find snacks and food to cook for him and then eventually our entire family was eating this way. Then after 3 weeks I gave him sugar and colors, like before just normal eating and he totally couldn't sleep well, he had a headache so it convinced him that taking him off those things he felt better. He almost got kicked out of scouts, and school was complaining alot of his hyper behavior. I was at the end of my rope. Then after the 3 weeks the school and scouts leaders were asking what I did differently cause he was so different in a good way. So, If you still need to talk email me back. I would love to hear what works for you. I need advice on this subject always. _melanie

There is a lot that can be done with nutrition and there is a lot of information on that on the web so I will not go into details here. I believe there is a quote that makes sense here, used a lot in herbal communities "Let your medicine be your food and your food be your medicine." Another is "You can not have a healthy mind in an unhealthy body." If you are shopping the produce section and edges of the store and making most of your own food, that should greatly help, as would lots of omega 3s. Best of luck.

I have ADHD and so does my now grown daughter. I found that the reason that the child acts in a mean way is called "negative manipulation". The reason for that is they want your attention and have no idea how to go about getting it in a positive way. Yelling at them does nothing. What I had to do was send my daughter to her room. Nothing to do in her room and she could not talk to anyone, when she behaved badly. When she did good things we gave her the attention she so much craved.
The hardest part is finding things to challenge my daughter. She was inquisitive so we kept giving her harder and harder things to learn. We now have a 2 year old grandchild who also has ADHD. We are lucky to have found that he loves music. Since he was 6 months old we have had him playing the drums. His grandfather teaches him. They watch music videos together about music, how instruments are made, they listen to all kinds of music but they both love the Blues.
Getting a child interested in music or sports is a great way for them to focus their attention. It will even help with their grades in school. Also start checking for food allergies. His diet is key. Also sticking to a routine, stricter than most of us like. It seems to really help.
I have a lot of idea to help if you would like to email me personally.
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B., I am really into nutrition. What I have learned about ADHD is GET HIM OFF MILK! There are other ways to get calcium like green leafy vegetables. Make sure his is hydrated with water. No soda or kool-aid. Watch the dyes. No red food coloring at all. Give him something to do. Most kids with ADHD are bored, and want to learn. Their brain also going a hundred miles an hour needs stimulation. Maybe take him somewhere to do testing, He may have other allergies he should be tested for. Good luck, and take a little time for yourself, it sounds like you need a little TLC.