In this video I share what we have immediately seen with medication for our son’s ADD. It is a testimonial for anyone consider medication for their child.

I wanted to provide you with a quick update on our journey with ADD. As of a couple of weeks ago, we put our son on Adderall on a very low dose. The results have been immediate! Although I agree that ADHD and ADD are overused terms in our society, ADHD truly is a neurological disorder that can respond quite well to medication.

We were lucky. Our son responded immediately to the first medication we put him on. We realize that as he grows, we will probably need to modify or switch medications. Each medication’s efficacy is relative to each individual’s body chemistry.

Our first day that we put him on medication, we immediately noticed that he was much more task oriented than he had ever been; he was highly communicative and his responses to others were much more empathetic. This may sound like a silly example but on the first day of medication, he peeled an entire cucumber by himself and presented it at the dinner table. He had never done anything like that before.

Recently, we went to an open house at his school where we were treated to a recent drawing and writing sample by him. I posted a picture of the drawing and writing sample in last week’s post. I cried. The results are amazing. AMAZING!! I have never seen him draw or write like what he has produced recently. It is almost like the medication is the key unlocking his true potential. He is so proud of the work he is now producing. He seems much more comfortable with school and is actually proud of the homework he does. Recently he did homework with our babysitter and when I came home, he ran up to me to show me his homework!! Now I realize that usually I do his homework with him but to have him actually want to show me the homework he had done is substantial.

Needless to say, the medication is working for us. We did not put our son on medication easily or lightly. We had substantial conversations with doctors, therapists and other parents when deciding whether or not to pursue the medication route. Our results are consistent with what we have heard, if the condition is truly ADHD (in our case ADD), the medication will product results immediately.

We heard one truly amazing story from a mother who was and is absolutely against giving her child medication. However they decided as a family to pursue medication for her child. The mother has tried to take the child off the medication but the child persists and tells her that without the medication he feels foggy. In other words, the children since the age of 7, I believe, has demanded the medication because he is able to function better with it.

I am so happy to share our amazing results. We know that we may have to switch medications as our child grows but for now we are so very happy the medication has provided a key to unlocking our child’s potential.