My 9-year old son is having a hard time staying focused at school. This has been a problem for the last year. We have did some testing with him and started him on medicine that only made him very tired, stomach ache, didn't want to eat so we put him on a lower dose which didn't seem to make much difference so I stoped giving it to him. Well her we are today with repeated notes for the teacher he's not focused, distracted very easy. He had to do state test the last two days and did poorly not that he can't do them he is very smart, but just can't slow down and focus on one thing at one time. I'm not one for medicine, but we are at are ends of what to do.