Rethinking.....

In response to my last post..there has been a bit of a change. Clonidine, was not the drug of choice. Our pediatrician was upfront and confessed that she has no experience prescribing Clonidine to control tics. I respect her honesty. She was open about a few other medications, and we opted for a med called Intuniv. Intuniv is not a stimulant, so his tics should not be affected at all..no worse, no better. This pleases me and leaves me thanking God for His mercy in that arena. This is a blood pressure medication that has had a very positive result for kids with ADHD-inattentive. We will start small...1mg a day for a week, then up it to 2mg a day for the next week, then decide what to do from there. I am heavy hearted as I was convinced I would NEVER revisit even the option of putting Seth on another medication. Our current methods of treatment are helping him....just not enough. Accupuncture has been a big relief. I will never stop that treatment. He benefits greatly from it, but like I said, it just isn't enough. If you carry on a conversation with Seth, you may notice he needs complete silence to talk to you. He even gets distracted by his own mind. He may be in mid sentence and stop..look at you, and say, 'What was I saying?'. He does this MID SENTENCE! His teacher is struggling to teach him basic math skills. He is disruptive in class....raising his hand to tell her about a cartoon he saw yesterday while she is trying to teach a lesson. His mind is not there. He is in a haze, a fog, another realm. I know he is brilliant. As much time as he spends in his own thoughts, he should be getting straight Fs. It's because of his smarts that he is able to coast along....passing every subject. I was alright with the 'coasting along' until his very wise and wonderful teacher made a comment that I could not shake. 'Imagine what he could do if the fog lifted. Where could he go academically? I would love to see him excel, because I know he can...but not with this fog around him.' I chewed on that for a few weeks. Was she right? YES. Emphatically YES. I tossed around the idea of meds, going back and forth and back and forth. I knew for sure that we wanted to control the tics. The heartbreak behind them is too much for me and him and the rest of the world to bear. Then I came across Clonidine which would piggy back a standard stimulant ADHD drug, but would help control the exacerbated  (by the stimulant) tics... and that opened the doorway to considering other med options. So here we are at Intuniv. I will start him on it early next week and be praying that it is as perfect for him as it seems. Stay tuned.....that's the result I'm hoping to see in Seth :)