What to Track Before You Talk to the Prescriber

Aminy never advises on medication, dosing, or side effects — that is your child's prescriber's job. What you can do, better than anyone, is bring them observations. When autism and ADHD co-occur, stimulant response can look different, and the doctor is working half-blind without your notes.

Track these for two weeks before the appointment

• Sleep: time asleep, night wakings, time awake. Every day.
• Appetite: rough intake at breakfast, lunch, dinner. A one-word rating is fine.
• Mood in the late afternoon and evening (the "wearing off" window if a medication is involved).
• Attention wins: one moment per day where focus was better than usual, and what was happening.
• Big reactions: how many, how long, meltdown-shaped or outburst-shaped (see the meltdown-or-outburst guide).
• Anything new: tics, stomach aches, headaches, repetitive behaviours that increased.

Questions worth writing down

• "Which of these changes would you expect from the medication, and which would worry you?"
• "What should I watch for in the first week?"
• "How does my child's autism change what you're looking for?"
• "Who do I call if something looks wrong on a weekend?"

How Aminy helps

Log the moments as they happen; ask Aminy for a two-week summary the night before the appointment and bring it. The summary is your logs, organised — nothing Aminy invented.