medical info needed

[cols]

::)my son has been on methylphenidate for a year now,he had a check up before he started taking them,six months down the line another,they found out he had an irregular heart beat,had a heart scan doctor was fine with this he said it was normal for a child with adhd, had another one last month and now they have found another noise in his heart besides the irregular beat,now waiting to see specialist, his doctor in the clinic said that it might be nothing and not to worry but as a parent you do i asked if it was the tablets that hes on and got told to wait and see, if anyone has experienced the same or got any advice
greatly appreciated
thank you x

[misty]

Hi. My daughter isn't on meds, but I can understand how scared you must be. I think if it were me, I'd take my kid off the meds until I knew for sure what is going on. I don't think "wait & see" is a very acceptable answer from that Dr. I hope someone whos child takes meds can chime in with better advice, but just wanted to add my 2 cents in.

[katiekat]

Cols, My son is 6 and he's not on any meds BECAUSE of heart problems. At his kindergarten physical his Dr. found a noise she wanted us to check out further. Turned out he had a PDA(patent ductus arteriosus) and had to have surgery to repair it. No one had ever said anything about a "noise" before. He saw the same Dr. his whole life and she just happened to be new to the practice and saw him that day. I would stop meds as Misty said -we planned on starting him on meds before all this but now we are not going to.

[Charlie Girl]

I would stop the meds. My nephew was on stims when he was younger and developed a noise. They did an echogram of his heart and he has what has turned out to be a genetic defect which doesn't show up in an ekg.

My uncle is in his 70s and has the same problem. It never gave him any trouble until a few years ago but now he is officially disabled from it. The stims could have made my nephew very ill if they hadn't noticed a problem and gotten an echocardiogram very early on.

I will not ever put my child on stims until they do an ekg and an echo. In your shoes, my kid would be off them so fast your head would spin.

Hopefully the dr is right and its really nothing but I wouldn't take the chance until I knew for sure.

[farrah]

wow, i have never had a problem with meds and heart but I would be on the phone with the doc. getting every bit of information about the meds and if he can still be on them. question everything.