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Sorry for the length. You had lots of questions and thus I have lots of answers. The numbers really do not mean anything besides helping me write this.
 
 
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Here is a list of many meds used to treat ADHD
 
 
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The new developments is the use of SNRIs and two specific anti-convulsants called pregabalin and gabapentin. We have learned that specific serotonin and norepinephrine receptors modulate what is the pain threshold to go up traveling up the spinal cord, thus by using an SNRI we can change what this threshold of pain is thus weakening or eliminating certain types of pain. Oh SNRIs also do other things in the brain not spinal cord that help with pain.
With the anti-convulsants pregabalin and gabapentin they work a different way. You have multiple types of sensory nerve fibers, and you have specialized subsections for painful nerves called Aδ. These anticonvulsants meds make the threshold to send the pain signal be higher before the pain signal goes up the spinal cord.
Now two last important things about sensory processing. The other sensory nerve cells not related to pain have something called a myelin sheath that acts as insulation for those nerves. This sheath speeds up the nerve signal but also insulates the nerves so they do not by accident trigger the painful nerve types by crosstalk. Things like inflammation or certain nutrient deficiencies change how the body repairs this myelin sheath and thus you get far more cross talk. The most extreme form of this is Multiple Sclerosis is a condition where this myelin sheath is not repaired and you get painful symptoms and cognitive decline. I am not saying you have MS but just trying to illuminate a point by showing the most extreme form of it.
The other part of the sensory processing is how you can modulate the nerve signals with things such as pressure (blankets and vest) and other forms of sensory input such as a TENS unit. Remember you have multiple sensory nerves, well they all come to a “gate” where they combine into one type of nerve. Well this nerve can only except one type of input at a time so it prefers to send the nonpainful signal for often this information is more important than the painful signal (things like pressure, balance, temperature etc). This is called the Gate Theory of Pain, and many OT / PT teach ways you can trigger the nonpainful versions like vests and blankets to autistic and asperger children.
This book is a good explanation of treating types of painStahl's Illustrated Chronic Pain and Fibromyalgia
Here is two samples, Chapter 2: Neurobiology of Pain and Chapter 5: Pain Drugs
Note he has a similar one for ADHD which I reviewed here and posted sample material Link. Both of these books require some medical knowledge but not a medical degree to understand (late high school, early college level of biology). The pictures, graphs, tables and diagrams are invaluable for explaining everything.
One last thing both of thoses type of meds I listed above the SNRIs and the anticonvulsants are often given to Aspergers or Austistic kids anyway for they work as mood stabilizers, depression, and many forms of anxiety such as social anxiety disorder, panic disorder, and generalized anxiety disorder. Those two types of meds reduce symptoms in about 50% of patients.
I am personally on Cymbalta, I was put onto it this year when I switched docs for my autoimmune problem, my new doc knew this type of stuff but my old doc did not for it was far too recent for him.
 
 
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While some immune responses repair the brain, others when overexposed can actually be neurotoxic.
Think of you having a cold or flu, were you really wanting to solve math problems during that time? Not all that mental grogginess is the fever talking. Autoimmune problems do not cause ADHD, they just make ADHD worse. Autoimmune problems seem to be more common in Asperger/autistic patients.
Furthermore we know that chronic inflammation and/or chronic pain can lead to depression and depression causes changes in the brain that make ADHD worse. In fact we now have neuroimaging that if this depression or chronic pain is untreated it leads to reduction in the gray matter in the brain in specific spots and half of those spots are ADHD affected brain regions. (The brain regions connected to ADHD that are decreased are the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex, the Anterior Cingulate Cortex, and the Striatum of the Basal Ganglia; non ADHD regions are the Brainstem and the amygdala which has to do with emotions, pain, fear)
Good Luck with your Son.