He's taking Adderall XR at 10 mg.
We did know that these side effects were expected, just wished we were not seeing them.
Since it's summer, we've been letting him stay up a little bit later (9 pm vs 830) but he has to get up and get ready in the morning without whining. He stayed up until 930 playing Wii with his dad (rrrrr, dad!!) last night and really struggled with getting up. But, once he was reminded that the 9 PM privilege would go, he got right up and got dressed!
I have NOT been keeping track on paper about his day and each evening, so I'll start that now, see if it dials back this week. Remaining hopeful that it's something that he can adjust to, that we can respond to appropriately.
At 5 mg, he was still plenty inattentive, and he does seem to be better focused at 10 MG. Hard to tell since he's not in school, no assignments or deadlines. And he's got to be able to get through homework time.
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