Quiver0f10 Posted April 27, 2009 Share Posted April 27, 2009 My son's Dr prescribed him concerta and said that after he had been on it for a few weks he would need to go to a higher dose. We waited a while before starting it and now my son has been on it for 2- 3 weeks so he should be going to a higher dose. The place my son is to get a neuro psych eval called and they are seeing him on the 30th. I don't know if I should continue with the concerta now or not or whether I should up the does now or not or just wait until after the eval? I guess I am not sure how long it takes for the new dose to affect him. They did tell me he should not take his pill that morning, but bring it with him because they want to test him without it and then with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laurie4b Posted April 27, 2009 Share Posted April 27, 2009 Ask the doctor who is prescribing the the neuropsych to talk to each other about what to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unicorn. Posted April 28, 2009 Share Posted April 28, 2009 Personally, I would not change his dose this close to the eval. I would wait, have the eval done, and then see what both docs have to say. hth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asta Posted April 28, 2009 Share Posted April 28, 2009 I agree (with not changing the dose). The last time I had a neuropsych exam, I was already medicated, and no one told me not to take my meds. I was a bit miffed when the results came back that I didn't have attention issues or things indicative of a temporal lobe disorder - well, DUH! I was on both ADHD meds AND a drug designed to help my temporal lobe (I have seizures in my temporal lobe). I know that neurologists take whichever anti-epileptic drug is in a patient into consideration when they do an EEG, so it was v. confusing to me that the neuropsych didn't take my meds into consideration. I would have been pleased to have been with the np you are talking about... asta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quiver0f10 Posted April 28, 2009 Author Share Posted April 28, 2009 OK, would you continue to give him the low dose or just stop it altogether until after the eval? ( We haven't been consistant with giving it every day as our Dr told us we can only use it on school days) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asta Posted April 28, 2009 Share Posted April 28, 2009 If it was me, and I wasn't consistently taking a med (eg: it wasn't at a therapeutic level in my bloodstream) I would ask the doc about just not taking it. ADHD stims are an interesting beast: on the one hand, some people are Rx'd to take "drug holidays" and it doesn't bother them in the slightest; on the other, some people start losing effectiveness from the yo-yoing going on in their system (which would not be there with a consistent dose). This is really something to ask your doc about - a phone call should do it, and I doubt they would charge (usually, you ask the desk person, the desk person asks the doc when s/he has a free moment, and then the desk person calls you back with the answer). asta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quiver0f10 Posted April 28, 2009 Author Share Posted April 28, 2009 OK, thanks again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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