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Intuniv for ADHD – Neuroscience Answers
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April 21, 2010ADHD Medication Rules: Why not use the science?
July 4, 2010Intuniv Questions Encourage More Specific Maintenance for ADHD
Sorry for the silence readers, I've been writing… – New ADHD Medication Rules – Brain Science & Common Sense is now completed, and the Launch Date is, get this, July 4th, 201o. Do you think there's a significance there? You will soon see that independent thinking is the hallmark of this 170+ page Guide to solve ADHD Medication Confusion. The Press Release will be available Tuesday [6-08-10] AM here at PR Web.
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ADHD Maintenance
If you haven't signed up on the notification list on the Rules link, please do so for the Launch Discount – everyone on the list will have the opportunity to buy Rules for $15 – cheap pricing for the many details on every commonplace aspect of ADHD medication management – less than the copay for a med check in many parts of the country.
Intuniv and Boats In Florida
My nephew, Brian Dooley, a deep thinker, historian, and hands-on-guy who can speak Spanish and run hard working crews on complicated construction projects, made an interesting observation this past weekend: Over 80% of the boats that sink in FL – over 80% – sink at the dock!! They don't sink during the storm of life, out on the high seas of change, but right there at the easiest, most available place for maintenance – at home there on the dock. See that diver in the photo on the deck? – He's too late.
This, my friends, is not such a remarkable fact when we think of other overlooked basic maintenance activities – such as those relevant to all ADHD meds.
Read These Intuniv Posts For An Interesting Message
I've been on the first page of Google with my Intuniv Reports for months [today #5 of 47,300 hits] and the reason is simple: the depth of reader conversation in these posts has also kept me very busy writing – the questions about ADHD medications come from many levels of consternation:
1. Intuniv For ADHD: Metabolic Challenges – Specific issues that arise with challenges ADHD meds and specifically Intuniv
2. Intuniv For ADHD: Understanding Tenex, Guanfacine and Alpha 2 – The Overview with more than 200 Comments
3. Intuniv For ADHD: Dosing Details – Dosing is always important, and there are some specific things about Intuniv
4. Intuniv For ADHD: Avoid Drug Interactions – Drug interactions are a favorite topic – why create problems when they are avoidable?
5. Intuniv Answers: ADHD and Addiction – One often overlooked application for Intuniv is with addiction recovery
6. Intuniv For ADHD Neurotransmitter levels matter – this post
Many of the posts have interesting, complex comments – one has over 200 – and therein lies the rub: Intuniv is working out very well as an alternative for stimulant meds – pure alternative or helpful augmentation – but the message there is deeper than that:
We have trouble folks, right here in River City. We have trouble at the dock. We have trouble with the care of our children. We have trouble with ADHD complexity that goes beyond just throwing some stimulant meds at a superficial label.
Neuroscience Answers
The deeper message is simple: We have many boats out there sinking at home, there at the dock before college, before the seas of life. Read the many comments, and you will be encouraged to practice more careful maintenance – to become informed to help you and yours actually understand that basic ADHD Maintenance matters – and how to do it everyday, without problems.
ADHD is more complex than simply using the medication effectively – we need to dig further into the neuroscience measurements, the available biology to measure immune system dysfunction, endocrine challenges, and actual neurotransmitter levels. More coming soon on all of these specifics here at CorePsych Blog.
For today: the launch on July 4, just around the corner, – make sure your automatic bailer is plugged in and turned on.
cp
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Beth,
My colleagues and I agree that the turn around time is usually one week, could be two. Headaches are less commonly associated, but one must always consider glutamate challenges on board before the Intuniv. Increased glutamate makes for quite unpredictable outcomes.
cp
can adults take intuniv for adhd
Lori: This same thing happen to my son, we decided to go back to the 1 mg dosage and see how he does in school on this dosage as he is 7 and very skinny. The teacher stated this week he is doing better and we are going to wait until he gains a little weight before we increase it.
Hi
I recently saw a 20/20 program on kids with adhd and prescription cannabinoids. I think that’s how they worded it. What is your opinion on studies for people that are dealing with adhd and anger issues/ocd. Do you think that administering marajuania in small doses as prescribed by a doctor is shown to be effective and safer than prescriptions (chemicals)?
Darla,
The dopamine connection is there, but as for me, I am not into sloppy side effects. Cannabinoids are notorious for creating many other downstream problems… may work on the overthinking, but then leaves the subject with memory deterioration. My rec would be don’t do – unless someone can prove the safety and the long term use will not cause apathy and indifference as it does so often on the street.
cp
Dr. Parker,
I am so glad I found this blog! I have been struggling with ADD-I and or more specifically SCT with executive functioning and spatial deficits (maybe this is high functioning aspergers though). Any… Dexedrine is the only drug that worked but I quickly developed a tolerance and the depression coming off was too much.
I also have working memory deficit and my internal dialouge is cranked up to 11 constantly overanalysing everything and getting tunnel focused on one thing at a time(which either makes me seem slow or I really am slow or both… probably the latter.) ignoring other inputs while retreating into my head. I am also hypoactive and can be sedated … definitely no hyperactivity.
I started thinking about Intuniv… do you think I could derive a benefit from this drug as either mono or part of a poly therapy? I am excited about the PFC activation but I am concerned that maybe lowering NE might not be the best thing for me.
In addition I am trying to explore other differentials such as chronic inflammation, subcilinical hypothyroidism (which I am on t3 for but I do not feel better mentally ) , lyme, digestion issues, glucose regulation, food sensitivities etc etc but I am running out of time because school starts in one month!!!
Thanks so much.
-AM
AM,
Dig in quickly and start this next process… the investigation of your comorbid conditions. With just this brief note it is quite apparent that comorbidity exists – now only to figure out the specifics. First question for your doc: “How many times a day do you go #2?” Immune system dysregulation can significantly corrupt neurotransmitter connections – and almost always does.
Intuniv may help… but from these remarks I will hazard a guess that all your meds will continue to show marginal improvement due to the other problems – the big biologic background noise.
Take a look at this CorePsych Neuroscience page for more info on these multiple issues.
cp
Dr. Parker,
My son started taking Intuniv ER 1 mg at the end of June. After 10 days, we moved up to 2 mg. (by taking 2-1 mg tablets). Very good results. This week we filled a prescription for the 2 mg. tablets and he has literally been falling asleep after lunch each day. Is there a difference between the 2 mg. tablets and taking 2 1 mg tablets? Or is he just adjusting to the dose?
Thanks,
Lorie
Lori,
I haven’t seen this phenomenon – it just doesn’t make intuitive sense. My suspicion is that it is simply part of the adjustment. Anyone else out there in Comment Land see this phenomenon on switching to the higher dose in a single tablet?
cp
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