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  Tracie

  5th September 2008

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  The comments on this thread have been very useful to me, thanks! We are getting ready to start Daytrana for the first time, and received a free 30-patch trial offer. I thought folks might want to know that it took 21 minutes to complete the card activation, which is a VERY long time in my book. We will probably get a bunch of junk mail now, but it saves us $170.

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  clacius

  27th August 2008

  134

  Hi, My son has been taking daytrana for 2 years. My son is skinny so I place near the fat side of his buttox . I remove the patch with baby oil. Then place an ointment base cortisone . Don’t forget that you are not to use electric blanket in the winter. This is stated in fine print on the big pap per that comes in the box.

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  NINA M TRAVIS

  18th August 2008

  133

  To anyone that reads this,
  My daughter Samantha is 13 years old still wears the patch she is on the 15mg patch she has her highs and lows and some times she gets nasty but she ok. She has add,adhd,odd, she olny wear the patch for about 9hours a day the when she comes home from school she has too removed it and it stays into her body for other 2 more hours she is doing well in most of the time in school math she is also a book worm likes too read 24/7 hours all summer long . She is in a diffent class because of the prombl she had when her father has pass a way in october 2002 its kind of hard for her day too day and month too month. By she doing ok weight still the same and her eating is veary good for a long time . And yes she dose have mood swings that did not come into play with this meds before she was put on it. Frist she was on all kind thing work at.
  Now on these patches she was on 5mg patch and than the 10mg patch and now she on 15mg patch doing well. She all so has a lot on her mine these days she is a teen age at 13 years old still in middle school in bucks county her last year and come september next flowing year she will be into 9th grade for the frist time for more years still too go when she gets too high school.
  Thankyou
  for listing too me at this timely matter

  have a nice afternoon 08/18/2008 @ 2:32PM

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  Delene

  7th August 2008

  132

  Hi Mariah. My daughter just turned 6 and she’s been on Daytrana for 8 months. This is the first ADHD med the doc started her on so I can’t compare it to other meds. When she first started taking it she had severe mood swings, anger and crying big crocodile tears for the simplest little thing and had bad headaches. All of this was happening when after we took the patch off in the afternoons. My husband and I kept saying to ourselves this is not going to work so I said I would give it 2 weeks. It took about 2 or 3 weeks before we could tell a difference in her ADHD and the side effects went away after a couple of weeks, thank goodness. Now the only side effect we have is her appetite during the day is null & void. She eats breakfast and dinner but we can’t get to eat hardly any lunch. She has done wonderfully in school also. If he’s just started the patches, give it a few weeks before you decide on whether to continue them. Good luck to you and your little boy. God Bless!

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  Mariah

  7th August 2008

  131

  My son has aspergers and ADHD he is 6 and was diagonised at age 5 with aspergers and 3 with ADHD. It has been a difficult. We first tried Addrell which worked then seem to make him angry, alot. Then Ritalin which seemed to work but he has a very high metabilism and 6 hours of medication only last 4 so he began having difficulity during the down times before his next dose. We have just started the patch it took two hours for any effect to show and today I had to pick him up because of hitting at school and it seems that the patch is not having much of an effect, he is somewhat calmer that normal but not as much as when he was on the Ritalin. He is on 15mg and also take Clonidine during the day and night. Will the mood swings decrease as we continue with the patch? Could the Clonidine be contritubing to the moood swings. Any advise would be wonderful. I just feel stuck.

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