All,

We are confused by what our doctor is telling us. Our 7 year old was just put on meds 5 mg of Focalin (to last between 6-8 hrs). THe dose is effective enough that her personality is there, she is doing so much better in school, and we aren't noticing eating or sleeping issues. Her teacher has noticed the meds seem to drop off around 1-1:30 in the afternoon, she takes them around 7:30-8am, and is getting a good 6 hours efficacy. I was wondering instead of giving her a supplement med at night can't we give her another pill during the day for another 6 hours. I asked the pediatrician this and he wants us to double up her morning dosage to 10mg. We are just playing phone tag, in which I have posed my question very specifically twice both with the same answer. I am just wondering if anyone out there with experience can offer any advice. We were hesitant to medicate to begin with and are very happy with the results and almost no side effects this low dose has afforded our daughter. We are weary of an arbitrary ( seems to us) increase for an additional 2 hours of efficacy if it even does that. We also are concerned about courting unnecessary side effects, when we know this low dose is already working so well.

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