Henriette, about 1 month [Offensive? Unsuitable? Report this comment.]

I have experimented my daughter on almost all ADHD meds, nothing is working for her!!! I need help and fast. The teachers @ school is not coping with her, and wants me to remove her. She is behind in her school work. She jumps from calm to agressive to flopping down on the ground and feeling sorry for herself. She is so emosional, and then the next moment she will break something or hurt someone. And when they do the same to her, she goes histerical!!! PLEASE HELP ME!! I am a singel mom with limmeted funds, and I cannot afford expensive meds, even thou I have tried almost everything. I need help!!

Victoria, 4 months [Offensive? Unsuitable? Report this comment.]

For School help questions.... Are you a stay at home Mom?? If so why not home school? There is no better teacher in the world. If your child is behind he will excel, with the one on one and you will be able to give him/her more opportunity to get up and move. And nobody in the world will have more patience than you, because you love him so. I have seen many school teacher loose their tempers with the kids, and thing is most the time we have no idea, because we are not there to see it. Did you know the school gets more money per disability? I also agree with the diet these days... Good lord, I seen my nephew with adhd take out a volt from the refrigerator, and I was like (You can give him that!) Of course he has been drinking them all along up until then. And he did have a melt down. But diet is a biggie, along with vaccines........ Take care of you little ones, you didnt have them to give them aways for hours anyways!

Jodie, 5 months [Offensive? Unsuitable? Report this comment.]

My son is 3 years old and has always been a live wire! i am now finding his behaviuor difficult, he bardges into other chidren at pre-school although he doesnt seem to relise he is hurting people and is quite appologetic once he has hurt someone, he is also agressive towards myself if i tell him he cant do something or send him for time-out. if it is something he's intrested in his attention span will last hours! but if hes not interested he doesnt want to know... does this sound like adhd?? heeeelp!

claire, 6 months [Offensive? Unsuitable? Report this comment.]

my son is two and is overly active all the time and when he gets all hyper he wont listen to what you are saying he can be very aggresive when he doesnt get what he wants and he has no patience he always whants things straight away and is not prepared to wait for it he is constantly thirsty so much so that i now only give him water because i thought maybe it was the suger in his juice it is very hard to get him to go to bed at night time and he doesnt usually go t sleep untill 10;30 and he only has one sleep during the day for about thirty minutes , i think he has adhd but im not sure if it runs inthe family because his dad has adhd and his uncle also has it im so confused any help would be greatly appreciated

sam evangelista, 7 months [Offensive? Unsuitable? Report this comment.]

i have three children 11, 6 and 3 and my middle son has just been diagnosed with adhd , i have been lucky i already new the signs and reconised it virtually straight away although i was one of those horrible people that before my son was born i felt there was no such thing as adhd and it was all down to parenting skills OH how was i wrong!!! my son is currently been statemented at school and he finds it difficult to cope especially at school.and is always on the go some advice i have found i big help is keep nagging you know your child and dont let people convince you it is nothing keep shouting till someone listenens, also my son is on omega three fish oils which i feel help him alot, and the massive difference we found that helped him was a simple thing we brought him a puppy and although this sound s crazy as parents that have a child adhd will understand why but it has so calmed him down and it is the best thing we could have done! i know this wouldnt work for everyone but it did help him.

Karen, 7 months [Offensive? Unsuitable? Report this comment.]

I have just found this site on google. I have a five year old son who has been diagnosed with ADHD and also has alot of Autistic traits. His primary school is excellent but have advised me that from the age of 8 he would be better in a special school as the changing of class room each lesson would confuse and upset him to much. Does anyone have any advise on special schools and if it would be of a benifit to my son? it can be very isolating having a special child and does anyone have any advise on activities or clubs which would be benificially to my son?

Donna Campbell, 7 months [Offensive? Unsuitable? Report this comment.]

I have a 5 year old son whom doesn't seem to be doing very well at school. The school has managed to get him 1 to 1 support 15 hours be week. He hasn't began to write but can form lines and circles. He only can do this for a very short time and becomes very disinterested. He is very active, so much so he regular bruses himself and I have attend the accident and emergency department for 3 head bands with a space of 4 months. When he is running he doesn't seem to know how to stop running when it is clear he is completely out of breath. He doesn't pay attention and appears to be in a trace. It is clear to me that he also has OCD has his complusion is to keep opening doors. He can do this for hours if I would allow him to. Please email back some advice on how bested to get help, advice and a diagnosis. Many thanks

glynis thompson, 7 months [Offensive? Unsuitable? Report this comment.]

i find these comments very helpfull i have a stepson with all the similar things as mentioned in the comments and now will have him tested for adhd he is 14yrs oldxagu

lisasinclair, 8 months [Offensive? Unsuitable? Report this comment.]

my son was always been differant , when he started school i started to get complaints about his behavour i suggested adhd but they said oh no it isnt hes clever he knows what hes doing but i persisted and he started to see a proper docter after two years of assesments he was dignosed with adhd and autism spectrem disorter and when both are put together it is a lot worse so if u are gettin fobbed of stick to your guns parent know best

hayley, 8 months [Offensive? Unsuitable? Report this comment.]

I am a single mum of three,my middle child is seven years old and he has been diagnosed with ADHD. He was firsat misdiagnosed with mild autism.But i never saw the signs with this disorder. he selfharms himself when he is frusrated by ruuning into brick walls ,scratching the tops of his legs,but doesnt seem to feel pain if he got a paper cut he screams for hours.he also has no fear of danger and to get his full attention show him a car or truck u have his full attention .i found any food with omega 3 dha concentration liquid helps to keep him calm .with the learning just keep on get a eduation psychologist socil worker they no how to go about getting the help that any hild that suffers with ADHD keepon at your gp or primary care centre u will get there speak to the school.u will get there and get the help.

nicole ross, 8 months [Offensive? Unsuitable? Report this comment.]

i have a 9 year old boy, who keeps throwing temper tanrums, today he has been sent home from school because of it. he dont like doing anything he is asked to do, it doesnt matter how many times you talk to him he is just not interest, he has even had an LPG which was organized from the school he has had anger management at school and that dont seem to work either, we have been to a place called malbrough house which deals this sort of thing but they keep saing its me and that there is nothing wrong. im at the end of my tather im trying to help him but he dont want to be helped, how can i get him tested for adhd? and what else can i do

bernadette, 9 months [Offensive? Unsuitable? Report this comment.]

I have a son that has been diagnosised by my GP and a child development doctor that my son may have ADHD. I am waiting for appointment for my son. From the children and young people specialist services East end Glasgow child and adolescents mental health this was also past as a referral fron the child development doctor. (they have said that there is a big waiting list and that I was more than welcome to place my sons name on the waiting list) what a joke. This was on 10/12/07 It is now the 11th of March 2008 and my son is is now taken a nose dive in his education I am at the point in my life that I am going to keep him off school unitil I get apointment from this department as i have been told that my son is 72 in the waiting list and that children that are self harming are a prority within this NHS service. So my son will have to wait. I am at my wits end. I am a single perent I also think my son is ADHD with Aurtistic traites. I am also quilified in child care. I am also doing this on my own without family support. I have contacted my MSP, Sosial workers, my sons school, My GP has procribed methlyphinadate with protest from the mental health team as it makes their job harder to diagnosis (well that tuff) I need my son to calm down or I am going to do some thing and these tablets do that for him and it is helping me and him to bond but I need an appointment now so the school can arrange a support worker in class with him to help him with his consntration, and for him to retain information and basic instructions

bernadette, 9 months [Offensive? Unsuitable? Report this comment.]

I have a son that has been diagnosised by my GP and a child development doctor that my son may have ADHD. I am waiting for appointment for my son. From the children and young people specialist services East end Glasgow child and adolescents mental health this was also past as a referral fron the child development doctor. (they have said that there is a big waiting list and that I was more than welcome to place my sons name on the waiting list) what a joke. This was on 10/12/07 It is now the 11th of March 2008 and my son is is now taken a nose dive in his education I am at the point in my life that I am going to keep him off school unitil I get apointment from this department as i have been told that my son is 72 in the waiting list and that children that are self harming are a prority within this NHS service. So my son will have to wait. I am at my wits end. I am a single perent I also think my son is ADHD with Aurtistic traites. I am also quilified in child care. I am also doing this on my own without family support. I have contacted my MSP, Sosial workers, my sons school, My GP has procribed methlyphinadate with protest from the mental health team as it makes their job harder to diagnosis (well that tuff) I need my son to calm down or I am going to do some thing and these tablets do that for him and it is helping me and him to bond but I need an appointment now so the school can arrange a support worker in class with him to help him with his consntration, and for him to retain information and basic instructions

julie rowley, 9 months [Offensive? Unsuitable? Report this comment.]

i have a 6 year old boy and from the age of 3 he had been showing signs of adhd he does not sleep but has loads of energy he his aggressive and uncooprative he as also been statmented for 20 hours school and i have both stuggeld to get him seen by a phyatrist and finaly we go to see him on wednesday 5th of march at last there might be an answer to all this its hard to lok after him and my two other children mrs j rowley

Lisa, 9 months [Offensive? Unsuitable? Report this comment.]

My daughter is 8 years old when she was 5 she was diagonised with petit mal epilepsy but after 3 years the medication is still not working we have also been told now she has adhd and is showing signs of autism it is very hard work as i have two others girls with the epilepsy as well but they arent showing signsof adhd yet so i no its not easy. Iwill try looking at her food intake thank you for the advice.

Joan Osborne, 10 months [Offensive? Unsuitable? Report this comment.]

My son is now 25 years old but when he was a child I found out he was hyperactive (as it was called then). Not through diagnosis from a doctor but from a chance meeting while on holiday with parents of a hyperactive child. They talked about it and gave me a book called Hyperactivity. It listed over 100 symptoms and I realized my son had 75% of these, following their advice I went home and changed his diet. Cut out all colourings, no smarties, no sweets with colourings,biscuits with colourings in, cordials, fish fingers which in those days had tartrazine in them. Within 4 days he was a different child. I could not believe my eyes. His behaviour changed drastically. I am not saying it is the total cure but it certainly went a long way to make life easier. So I think the first place to start is diet. Fresh food rather than pre-packed. There are far more chemicals and pesticides in our foods now than there were then which I feel go a long way to causing this condition so I feel organic food and no pre packed, no artificial colourings etc could go a long way to helping. When he went to other childrens birthday parties I either enlisted the co-operation of the mothers dealing with the food, or took some special bit along for him. Good Luck ! I remember the frustrations well.

SARAH, 11 months [Offensive? Unsuitable? Report this comment.]

I have a seven year old little boy who has all the signs of ADHD. After 7 years of struggling his school is assessing him. But im findind it all a bit of a struggle, the mood swings, aggressive behaviour ect. Please give me some advice. many thank Mrs S Mackay

kelly, about 1 year [Offensive? Unsuitable? Report this comment.]

Both my boys were born premature and 7 months apart. they are both showing all symptoms of ADHD but i cant get any help or a full assessment on them oth, What should i do?