Adderall XR ADHD/ADD Medication Review

Overall 3.86 of 5 view all 14 reviews

sherry7664
Baton Rouge, LA

My son went from failing school to taking honors courses.

Have child who has ADHD, Safety conscious

Pros

Improves ability to stay focused on task, Makes it easier to concentrate

DEC

2007

My son had failed 7th grade and since before that time he had been complaining about school and wanted to quit. After a while he began treatment for depression. When I would help him with his homework he would get so frustrated and just give up, saying that he did not understand. After his father was diagnosed with dyslexia and other problems I began to wonder if this was my son's problem also. I began trying to get him tested. His school refused to test him because he scored too high on the Iowa tests. Later, the psychiatrist who had been treating his depression diagnosed him as having ADD and put him on Adderall. He began improving almost immediately and once they found the correct dosage he did great. He began getting A's in school, taking correspondence classes from the college to make up the credits he would be missing from graduating due to his past failure of some classes. His senior year he was taking 3 or 4 honors classes. It was wonderful. He was like a totally different person. After my son was diagnosed, his older sister was diagnosed and put on Adderall. After all these years, finally she could listen to whole songs on the radio or on CD's instead of saying "oh, I've been waiting all day to hear that song" or "I love this song" and before it was 1/4 - 1/2 over she would change the station or the track on the CD.