Ready for Concerta

MOMMY: Daughter has done a fantastic job swallowing pills all week. We even tried something different this morning, as the Concerta pills are a good deal larger than the Zyrteks. So I gave her one ibuprofen pill. I know it's not generally wise to just randomly give ibuprofen, but one pill wasn't going to hurt her--and I needed to know if she could do it. The last thing I need tomorrow when I give her the Concerta is to have her gagging and freaking out over it. It went down fine, so we both feel good about it now. Pill swallowing officially learned! If nothing else, I'm glad we have conquered that little life milestone. (One thing we did learn, for anyone looking for advice on how to do this, is that the pills go down much easier with juice than they do with water. Juice and a dollar. That's my magic formula for pill swallowing.)

Regarding tomorrow, I'm pretty nervous (now, how to keep Daughter from reading this post for the next 48 hours or so?) If the Concerta does to her what the Daytrana did to her, we are so done with medicine. I'll be looking for non-medical options to deal with this. On the other hand, I've had a lot of time to work with her one-on-one this week with homework and studying because we've been cooped up with snow/ice days, and I've really seen how very much she needs help. I desperately want this to help, but I desperately want it to help without any ill side effects. Are those mutually exclusive desires?