INTERVIEWER: How has Michaela’s medication changed as she has gotten older?

MOM: She had started out on Dexedrine, a short-acting Dexedrine, and that did work, but then she quickly went into a longer day of school and needing more. So rather than dosing her at school, calling her out of the classroom and calling attention to her, she began to take the sustained release Dexedrine. So it was a spansule that would definitely get her through a full classroom day, and that worked well as well. But then of course as she was growing, she needed to increase the dose of that. So there was always the balance of trying to decide with each new school year how much more her physical size would involve an change of dose as well as the increased demands academically.