Can Focalin XR when taken in the morning cause sleep problems?
Saturday, November 28th, 2009 at
2:56 pm
My daughter was put on Focalin XR for ADHD. She takes this first thing in the morning along with her anitbiotics for Lyme Disease. Since she has been taking this she has not slept more than 5 hours at night. I have checked every other medicine and none of them seem to cause any sleep problems. Besides that the doctor that put her on this medicine said she either had ADHD or Bipolar disorder but they couldn’t tell which one. Any help would be great. Thanks!!
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Is the Focalin helping with her symptons? If it is than she is ADHD. If it seems to make the symptoms worse, then she most likely has Bipolar disorder. My son is on Adderol XR for ADD and it helps with his symptoms. In the beginning he ate very little and slept very little but it did pass with time. Manic episodes from the Bipolar can also make someone sleep less……. Again, look at her symptoms, if the Focalin helps then give it a little time for the side effects to go away. If her symptoms are worse…. take her back to the doctor and see about trying a med for Bipolar mania.
IT sure can. Treating bipolar with ADHD medicine is foolish! She probably is not biploar but you need to know. There are a couple of screenings at psychcentral.com you can take but I would want a professional opinion.
First to tell if she has bi-polar disorder is to see if she becomes manic on a stimulant. If she does not become manic she is not bi-polar. Mood swings and difficulty falling asleep are typical symptoms of stimulants and are NOT to be confused with bi-polar. never give bi-polar medication to an ADHD kid, they did that to me and I became more agitated and aggressive. It tends to bring out oppositional definat disorder and conduct disorder in ADHD kids. Ask her doctor about a sleep medication like rozerum. I have to take a sleep medication because if I dont, like your daughter I dont sleep. (It has nothing to do with bi-polar, its called insomnia.) I also take Focalin XR and too find it is very hard to sleep because of the extended release formula. Also if you are seeing a good doctor there is no evidence that bi-polar even exists in children under 18.