Strattera Journal – year 2

Well, Jacques’ been on Strattera for over a year now, and we have learned some things. Jacques weight and appetite are under control, which is to say I don’t need to scream at him to eat something – ANYTHING – PLEAAAAASE! And he no longer looks like a stick-man (although he is still very very [...]

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Strattera Journal: 8 months

At least the news is good. We seem to have resolved the issues we’d been having:  Jacques had been complaining about stomach aches and had only gained one pound in six months.  He grew two inches in that period, so the lack of weight gain was scary.  He was getting tired earlier, and earlier in [...]

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Strattera Journal: 6 months

Jacques has been taking Strattera for 6 months now – and I’m not so sure I am convinced we will continue. We did go up to the 40mg dose after the teacher indicated that there was still attention issues at 25mg, but Jacques became a complete mess.  He would explode at the slightest thing, and [...]

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Strattera Journal: 1.5 months

So it’s now been a month and a half since we started Jacques with the Strattera.  So far, at least for me and Matt, we see a difference in his behaviour.  He seems to get stressed out less, and interestingly he is more affectionate: hugging and kissing several times a week willingly with me and [...]

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Strattera Journal: Week 4

Well, there isn’t much new to report.  Jacques is still managing to swallow the pills, but some days he struggles with this task.  Personally I don’t see much effect.  He’s been back to school for two weeks now, and I will be sending in the survey for the teacher to see if she notices anything.  At [...]

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Strattera Journal: Day 1

We finally decided to take the plunge and give Jacques medication. It was painfully obvious that we could not continue down the road we were going. Jacques outbursts seemed to only be increasing, and his anxiety escalating.  The strategies we were using help calm things down worked fairly well, but Jacques seemed to be a [...]

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