Dylan, I understand that you wouldn't want your child to have the stigma that goes along with Ritalyn. Just know though, if your child truly needs help and no amount of diet changes, cognitive therapy, or behavioral therapy helps you will give your child any medication that does. ADD and ADHD are real problems. The dopamine and serotonin levels are messed up big time! Personally, I'm convinced one or multiple of these danged vaccines we have to give our children are the culprits but of course that can't be proven.
Eh heh, ever wonder why they have a 'wonder drug' for everything?
S12's problems started off with high seizure activity after his unjuries as a baby, thus he started off on a phenobarbatol. After years of being on it he developed rapid mood swings and then the doctors we're placing him on everything under th sun. I think at one point he ended up on atleast 4 meds at one time. Finally when they said they were putting him on the Rytalin, we noted that his pheno levels were fine and he had not been having seizures anymore for at least 3 years and that the meds were just making him worse. So, we ended up just taking him off as he was a zombie half the time and he's been fine ever since. I even think at one point it was preventing him to progress in learning.
Me 35/XW 33 S13 & S12 M: 10/17/98 OM & S: 07/08 D final 06/09/09 12/03/09 - 06/13/10 "Piercing" 06/13/10: Engaged to Re-marry 10/17/10 06/25/10: Expecting baby #3 2/14/11