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<p>[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 3307644"]So when did Vyvanse get approval in adolescents? I haven't seen any studies of lisdexamfetamine - which is nothing more than a fancy and expensive way to deliver dextroamphetamine - in adolescents. Seems that the approved uses, last I checked are for children 6-12 and for adults 18 and up.</p><p><br /></p><p>The OP's child should be old enough to provide assent to treatment if not informed consent. There is likely a reason the child refused the medication - maybe it made his skin crawl, maybe he was anxious, or maybe the drug just made him feel bad. Doing something to him that he does not want (and is aware enough to understand the consequences) is a real ethical problem. If you think you've got problems now, just consider the message that sends to the child (as well as the lesson you are teaching - it should not be ok to surreptitiously drug someone because you want them to behave a certain way). Besides that, there are other actually FDA approved and well-studied treatment alternatives (assuming that the diagnosis of ADHD is correct).</p><p><br /></p><p>OP, by all means see your pediatrician. There are many, many conditions which look like (or are interpreted as) attention/hyperactivity, but are not. With luck, your pediatrician will do a thorough assessment, hopefully, you and your child's teacher will be given behavior rating forms if there is not a simpler problem. If your child's psychiatrist was not a board certified Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist - and maybe even if they were, don't feel at all bad about not following up. The first step in identifying a problem like ADHD should be to rule out all other possible causes of the observed behavior. Sometimes the root cause is something weird and as simple as snoring.</p><p><br /></p><p>One more piece of advice: Don't ask people who market/sell drugs for a living for medical opinions - unless of course they went to medical school...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 3307644"]So when did Vyvanse get approval in adolescents? I haven't seen any studies of lisdexamfetamine - which is nothing more than a fancy and expensive way to deliver dextroamphetamine - in adolescents. Seems that the approved uses, last I checked are for children 6-12 and for adults 18 and up. The OP's child should be old enough to provide assent to treatment if not informed consent. There is likely a reason the child refused the medication - maybe it made his skin crawl, maybe he was anxious, or maybe the drug just made him feel bad. Doing something to him that he does not want (and is aware enough to understand the consequences) is a real ethical problem. If you think you've got problems now, just consider the message that sends to the child (as well as the lesson you are teaching - it should not be ok to surreptitiously drug someone because you want them to behave a certain way). Besides that, there are other actually FDA approved and well-studied treatment alternatives (assuming that the diagnosis of ADHD is correct). OP, by all means see your pediatrician. There are many, many conditions which look like (or are interpreted as) attention/hyperactivity, but are not. With luck, your pediatrician will do a thorough assessment, hopefully, you and your child's teacher will be given behavior rating forms if there is not a simpler problem. If your child's psychiatrist was not a board certified Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist - and maybe even if they were, don't feel at all bad about not following up. The first step in identifying a problem like ADHD should be to rule out all other possible causes of the observed behavior. Sometimes the root cause is something weird and as simple as snoring. One more piece of advice: Don't ask people who market/sell drugs for a living for medical opinions - unless of course they went to medical school...[/QUOTE]
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