question of concerta...

[finnmom]

Hi all, although my ds has been using concerta for over 2 y now, I´ve noticed I dont know all of the med, can you believe it

Anyway, as a schoolnurse, I came across a boy that has just resently started using concerta, everything goes well educationally, but.... His mom told us in a meeting some thing´s that got me thinking...

He want´s to feel different material´s, he stop´s to thouch the couch, matt, linen´s....he does that frecuently.

He also stop´s to measure thing´s like line´s on the floor, he put´s his feet on between the line´s and get´s frustrated if the feet doesnt fit(hard to explain this to you but try to understand me)

He losst his father few week´s ago, is still emotional of that (obviously) so it´s hard to say what´s from the med and what´s from the tradegy in his life...

Has anyone of you notice anything like this before, I keep thinking OCD or something... he seem´s to NEED to do these thing´s.... HELP!!!

[gabrielsmom]

Hi Marja:

It's hard to say. I will assume that he did not display this behavior prior to the concerta or the death of his father. I am unaware of concerta causing OCD behaviors in a child, so my first thought is that perhaps he feels loss of control of his world due to the death of his father and therefore is trying to control another aspect of his life. I would suggest that the parent speak to a psychologist and explore this behavior more thoroughly or if she believes it is due to the concerta she can try either diminishing the dosage or taking him off of the concerta for a while and see what happens.

I don't know if this helped. I hope it did.

Joshua

[finnmom]

Joshua, thank you, you pretty much said what I´ve been thinking. It´s really hard to say what triggered this behaviour, wich, as you already figured out, did not occur pre all these changes in his live

Fortunately, they already have an appointment with psychologist and med will be monitored very closely(mainly by yours truly ) and all the changes will be notified to the doc prescriping those.... so I think we have it all covered...

Any other thought´s, have any of you noticed any compulsatory behaviour with concerta?

[Linda]

marja...Paul never had any of the things you described when he was taking concerta.

[camismom]

Cami started on concerta in the summer and I haven't noticed anything like this in her.

[finnmom]

Thank you... so it´s propably the tradegy then....

[gabrielsmom]

Marja:

Gabriel is also on concerta; 36 mgs. He has never had any OCD symptoms either.

Joshua.

[AnneM]

Oh Marja .. that poor little guy!!

I would personally put this down to the grief he is feeling over the loss of his father ...

I also am not familiar with OCD as a trait from Concerta ..

[finnmom]

Thank you all, you´ve such a great info

I agree, it´s the tradegy, not only did he loss his dad, but also his grandma, couple a week´s after his dad died His mom say´s he´s constantly worried of something bad happening to his mom, wont leave her of sight, call´s after her, wont stay alone a second Poor boy....I know he´s going to see a pshychologist, so mayby they can help.....

[Linda]

marja....what that child has gone through is enough to cause severe anxiety in an adult

[finnmom]

linda said:

marja....what that child has gone through is enough to cause severe anxiety in an adult

I agree, poor kid