Over halfway through
the 3rd grade, my oldest was screened for AD/HD. I spoke with our pediatrician,
who is a wonderful woman and a real advocate for her patients. I expressed my
hesitation with putting my daughter on stimulant medication and she agreed.
There was research that indicated that Omega-3 Fish Oil was beneficial to
children with AD/HD, so we opted to give it a try for a few months. I went out
and searched for the brand names that I was provided by the doctor and started a
daily regimen of fish oil.
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But, by the end of
the school year, I had to admit that the fish oil wasn't helping and we tried my
daughter on non-stimulant medications. We tried Strattera and I noticed severe
mood swings right away. So, we tried Intuniv for the better part of 4th grade.
My oldest, however, started having trouble sleeping at night and her grades
dropped significantly from the year before. (If you ask my daughter about her
4th grade year, almost a year later, she will tell you that she slept through
most of it.) There were just too many side effects so the counselor, the
pediatrician, and I decided to take her off the AD/HD
medication.
So ended our journey with AD/HD medications. Our pediatrician, however, was convinced that something else had to be going on and referred my daughter to Brenner's Children's Hospital for testing for Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD). It was a real nightmare to get her in. We started in September and two months later, I was still trying to obtain the initial questionnaires that needed to be filled out by us and my daughter's teacher. When I did finally get the paperwork and fill it out, I sent it back, but we never got an appointment.
Then, the bottom fell out from under us. January 26th, I got a call from my husband (who is a teacher at our children's school). My oldest daughter's teacher was concerned. Another student reported that my daughter was asking classmates to bring a knife or a gun to school so she could kill herself.
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