Hello , Our 8 yr old son began taking Adderall for his ADDin May of this year. Then in Nov, he had a very scary, full blown seizure. Then over this last weekend, he had a partial seizure. Seizures do not run in our family and when he was in kindergarten, he was on Respirdal (for his bipolar/ODD diagnosis) for a while but developed bad symptoms like tics and also had a couple of seizures but when he was sleeping. He was quickly pulled off of all meds and we chose not to medicate until he reached 2nd grade and couldn't pay attention long enough to write more than one sentence. We chose to just deal with the ADHD issue and medicate for that using Adderall. Of course, we want to think that it is because of the meds. His doctor doesn't think so and research I've done on the internet points in the direction that it is not likely to be causing it. I am wondering if other people have experienced anything similar and what did they do about it? I would appreciate any feedback since we are so worried about him. The meds have done wonders for his ADD esp. in school work so we don't just want to pull him off of the meds. His doctor doesn't think that he had a seizure since there were signs that do not coincide with a typical seizure, for instance, my 8 yr old remembered every second of the seizure and was conscience during the whole thing. So to him, that makes it not a seizure. He thinks it points more towards what can happen if you hyperventilate since our son was very mad the first time and very scared the second time, so that is a possibility. Thank you for any feedback you can share. Susan

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