Help please!
I have a 4 year old little boy. (He turns 5 in December)
Around last August we started noticing his behavior was changing tantrums, biting, hitting, throwing things extreme outbursts. I thought it was because we moved and had baby sister… well fast forward to the new year and his school he has been doing go for 2 and half years couldn’t control him so I pulled him out and got him evaluated for autism and adhd. (He also tried speech therapy but they couldn’t get him to stop and listen)
Anyways the psychologist diagnosed him with adhd and ODD (oppositional defiant disorder). She told me he needed to be on medication I would have to go to his pediatrician and see if she would prescribe him anything. Well he has been on intuniv since May. I feel like it calmed him down some but some days he just seemed out of it and had no motivation so I messaged the doctor and said we need to do something so she told me to give him intuniv at night and she prescribed Vyvanse about a month ago. Some days he’s absolutely great and others it’s complete outbursts lasting for hours, hitting screaming and biting. I was so against medication and I know it’s not a fix me all but I don’t know what else to do. He is supposed to start pre-k next month and I’m not sure if he can handle it. I want to help him so bad. I’m on a waitlist for speech therapy and play therapy but it’s a mile long. Does anyone have any tips because I’m absolutely at a loss.. it has made our everyday life hard because I’m not sure what’s going to cause him to have an outburst.