It's possible your child is just very intelligent and becomes bored very easily. A simple test would be to de- medicate and see if the old behavior returns. If necessary get some placebo pills to avoid behavior modification. The long term affects of anti-pyscotics are unknown but I suspect they are similiar to THC, another brain altering chemical.
He rarely drings soft drinks. Maybe if we have Pizza he’ll ask for it, but were talking maybe once a week. He drinks mostly water and milk. And he hates juice of all kinds, I don’t know why.
And we are weaning him off the anti-pyscotics and on to the non-narcotic guanfacine. We tried going cold turkey on the Focalin and onto the guanfacine and that was a disater. So we have him on both and bumping down a mg at a time on the Focalin.
guanfacine is a new product that according to some stories I have read is the one parents of ADD/ADHD children have been waiting for. None of us want to drug up our kids, and quanfacine may be the steap in the right direction.
The one we are trying is called intuniv.
The research shows diet has little to no impact on ADD ... although caffeine acts like Ritalin only a shorter-term effect. Caffeine will temporarily remove the hyperactivity and helps them focus.