Huge hugs , you are NOT a failure and it sounds like you have tried everything. If medication is the next step, then it's worth a try. You'll only continue on worrying and wondering otherwise. If people judge you for it, then wow, that's their problem!
As the others have said, I'm sure you've already looked into diet. Just to share my own experience - My DS1's teachers suspect he may have ADHD so I spoke with our paediatric chiro and he recommended we remove gluten, dairy (it's the milk protein that can cause issues) and nasty additives (found on the FedUp website) from his diet for three weeks and then slowly introduce one by one back into his diet. We discovered soon after that he has an intolerance to gluten (this has links to ADHD from what I've read, not in every case, but in some). When we tried dairy again he was bouncing off the walls and I realised that he was behaving like he did before we took him off it. Until that point I didn't think the diet change had done much for his behaviour, but after watching his hyperactivity after consuming dairy I realised that he had calmed down heaps, it was just that it was gradual.
He's still a work in progress and we're booked into see a paediatrician in August (we suspect he might have an auditory processing disorder), but I feel like we're actually getting somewhere.
I am in no way pushing my experiences on you, I'm sure you've already looked at diet, I just wanted to share what I've been trying. If your next step is medication and you can't see any other alternative, then don't worry about what anyone else thinks .
Last edited by ~Trish~; July 5th, 2012 at 07:52 AM.
, you are NOT a failure and it sounds like you have tried everything. If medication is the next step, then it's worth a try. You'll only continue on worrying and wondering otherwise. If people judge you for it, then wow, that's their problem!
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