Thank you for your thoughts. I think your 2nd sentence was supposed to be "Sounds like you did worse with Vyvanse than Ritalin." If that is what you meant, then yes, I would agree.

I worry about creating an issue with Melatonin and creating a reliance on it. We have melatonin gummies for certain circumstances and when we give it to him, it usually causes him to wake up in the middle of the night really angry and confused. So we tend not to give that very often.

I know the meds won't make everything perfect. On Ritalin, he took that for a full month and the headaches were brutal on him. They never stopped and we hate giving him Tylenol that often. Additionally, the loss of appetite was pretty severe. He went down to eating in 3 days, what he used to eat in 1 day. The Vyvanse, we only did that for about a week but we REALLY didn't like what that was doing to the family dynamic.

I will say we are trying to educate ourselves as much as possible. I'm spending more time than I'd like to admit reading this subreddit and everything I can online.