LUBA SHARES HER EXPERIENCE

Luba Berki has decided to share her experience with us! It's always nice to read that other people are achieving the control of the ADHD without medicines!!! Thanks for your support! This is her post: 

"So I have tried Omega-3, Pedi-Active, Attentive Child, Zinc, cleaned up the diet (but we eat pretty healthy to begin with) - all that produced big fat zero result. Our pediatrician did say our 5 year old son has the symptoms of ADHD inattentive, but deferred the diagnosis until he is 6 (per DSM-V). Since we aren't interested in medicating with pharmaceuticals, I thought I would try caffeine. I know it is a stimulant just like most ADHD drugs, but it seems like the lesser of... evils. After all I have consumed tea since the time I was able to hold a cup by myself and lived to tell about it . I went for caffeine pills. 1/4 of a pill is about 50mg of caffeine; I dissolve it in a spoonful of water and add it to his morning juice. On the very first day his sticker chart came home with a note from his teacher full of high praise - he listened on the rug, participated, answered questions, followed along, was in the green zone on the behavior hart, was made a line leader for good behavior when they went to lunch, did great on his math, journeyed appropriately. Oh my gosh, it was eye opening. It's been almost three weeks and he is doing fantastic so far, according to the teacher, she sends frequent feedback on the sticker chart. I do have to put a piece of caffeinated chocolate in his lunch box ( about 25 mg caffeine, 1/4 of an Awake bar) to tide him over the afternoon portion of school, that's when his attention starts wavering, naturally. I guess I will keep doing it while it's working.

No sleep problems have been noted so far, nothing out of the ordinary. We make him practice writing, reading and math and just deal with impulsivity without giving any more caffeine at home. He doesn't like coffee and tea, sodas have too much carbonation for him and being the smarty pants that he is he usually instructs me that "sodas are bad for kinds”