Hi! My 15yr old son has been on Vyvanse for a few years to manage his ADHD. Currently he’s been taking 40mg in the morning during school days only. He’s off on weekends and holidays from school. At first part of the school year I was getting reports that he was struggling with focusing in school, listening to and following directions, excessive talking, staying on task and motivation in general, his grades and motivation to turn in and complete work also reflected he was struggling. We did move to a new city over last summer and there are many resources now available to us compared to where we used to live. So instead of continuing the course with his general pediatrician I found an ADHD specialist and he was reevaluated, teachers and myself also filled out the NICHQ questionnaires. Surprisingly even in his early morning classes he was still struggling to focus and all the things above. The doctor recommended adding 1mg of Guanfacine in the evening to see if this helps support his Vyvanse medication so we kept that at 40mg. He’s only been taking the 1mg of Guanfacine a few days but I noticed that he gets really fixated or hyper focused on something and will continue asking me over and over again. For example, he had a school event he was required to attend, he asked me if after the event I could take him to the gym and I said “no, this has to be your off day because we won’t finish here until 7 pm and you have to study for your test tomorrow, we can’t go to the gym at 8 or 9 pm at night”. He proceeded to ask me continuously through out the evening from 5pm to until 8:30 that night. Sometimes even over and over again repeatedly. The following day he began texting me from school asking if I could pick him up early because he has lots of homework and he can’t concentrate in class because of lots of “moving and distractions”. Of course I said no because he can’t rack up absences in his afternoon classes or skip school to do homework. He continued to text me asking me to pick him up, until I finally said I would have his phone turned off by Verizon.
Has anyone experienced this hyper fixation with these 2 meds or am I overthinking?