One of my ex's little brothers had severs ADHD, and he also had schizophrenic tendencies, inherited from his heroine addicted dad. He was 9 years old at the time.
He was EXCELLENT in school, never got an average grade, it was ALWAYS A+.
He was onl ike 4 different kinds of meds, 3 times a day, but his mom found a great way to tone down his behavior at home - especially since he had 2 younger brothers besides that, 7 and 5. He also had an older sister, 18, and my EX, 19 - she made his do homework.
He loved school so much, that she would get extra work from his teachers, and she'd get him to do that when he was starting to be really rowdy. Since he loved it so much, he was quiet, and enjoyed what he was doing. He also LOVED to draw, and was also very good at that - so at the end of every week, he would be allowed to go to the dollar store, and get a new sketch pad for 99 cents. It only had like 20 pages, but it was enough to last him through the week. When he didn't want to do school work, his mom would tell him he wasn't being as nice as he could be, and to go calm down by drawing for 30 minutes. Usually he'd draw for a good hour before anyone would see him agian, and then it would be to show off his pictures, which really were quite good!
Maybe if you know what Tay really enjoys doing, you could implement that as a kind of calming influence when he's not being as quiet or good as you,d like him to be - if he REALLY loves animals, maybe get him a pet of his own, so that he can assume some responsibility? LIke fish?
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We get into the room and she starts asking questions, Neurologic exam's are very strange. LOL They do alot of testing of the muscle's and eye's and reflexes and just general muscle stregnth. Taylor goes thru this every 2 months in order to maintain his pills. So she says...How is he doing? LMAO I said I wanna KILL him 98% of the time! But this is again my fault, I put him down to 10mg from 30 and expected a miracle of some sort. She says and his school work must have been poor too? LOL She got suckered right into TAY. I said NOPE he is a straight A+ student. Behvaior is another thing. So now we have went to 20mg same meds and we will start this tomm, 30mg is just t much and 10 is not enough. We will get our annual blood work and MRI in about 2 months. Believe it or not, you can see the brain disfunction on the MRI from a *normal* brain. I was hoping he would be able to help himself control his brain on 10mg but he is not ready for that yet. 
I did like the new doc btw she was not right in my face. She would ask questions and then scribble away in his chart and than ask more. 
Thanks everyone for everything, it's nice to have people to vent to and just unload. 
I'm glad to hear today went good. I hope the rest of the week goes by smoothly. 
wow, I just read you posts, and even tought today was good I still wanted to offer you a hug 