3 Boys and a Mom - Diary of a Tagteam

So I had a meeting about Deven today w/the teacher and school psychologist and I learned something very interesting about Strattera.... The meeting was regarding his regression this year and the psychologist said she had heard that after a year Strattera sometimes will stop working and it will be as if the child is not on anything all.... Interesting since Deven is now on the meds a year and he's suddenly acting once again like he did before we medicated him.... Well not the major temper tantrums but he's chewing his fingers again, easily frustrated, doing little OCD things like erasing what he writes because the letters aren't just right, taking 30-40 min to write his morning sentence which is longer then the Kindi students in class take.... ARGGGGGG just NOT what I needed to hear.... We have an appt w/the Pdoc on Friday and I am going to ask him but wondering if anyone else has heard anything along these lines??? I don't what we will do if it is the case because he's not just ADHD, he's Bipolar and we really have to be careful w/the stimulants as they cause him to go into a manic cycle and he will rage.... *sigh* The school psychologist is gonna contact the friend that told her that info and get me copies of the articles he has.... OH JOY!!!! She is also going to get me a list of local child psychologists that I can take Deven to... Overall they seem concerned about his behavior but it seems that they are really leaving it ALL up to me to do something.... I don't know what to do!!!! BUT I did learn he will be passed up to 2nd grade provided he doesn't have a major problem scholastically which he probably won't since he's a very bright child... Now while I am happy to hear my child won't be held back I am not sure if I like hearing that the general rule is children in special ed classes seem to almost automatically get passed forward.... Well it's off to try to find some info about Strattera and then head to bed... Til next time....

PS... This is NOT the info I am withholding from you all! NANNER NANNER!