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<blockquote data-quote="helpangel" data-source="post: 620238" data-attributes="member: 7170"><p>My recommendations to any parent who needs for there child to take psychiatric medications is to see a neurologist for a baseline EEG first and to rule out medical problems that could be causing the behaviors or problems.</p><p></p><p>The problem diagnosticians have with kids is they are constantly growing and changing and most diagnosis's are based on the impressions of the person diagnosing based on what they see at time of the evaluation. Kids aren't like car's you don't hook up to a computer and get a print out to change the oil and the transmission is shot. (at least that's what it would say about my van) What I'm saying is kids diagnosis's aren't carved in stone and as I learned with both my girls the original diagnosis is often wrong. Guess need to give brief example to make point.</p><p></p><p>Angel was originally diagnosis with- ADD prescribed Ritalin</p><p>scary behaviors started happening they changed Ritalin for Concerta and started Depakote</p><p>at 6yo had a severe manic with-psychosis episode causing inpatient at psychiatric hospital where they added Risperdal... diagnosis was changed to bipolar not otherwise specified, ODD & adHd</p><p>She was 12yo before got her to developmental pediatrician who added Asperger's diagnosis to the list, her psychiatrist dropped adHd & ODD at that time also (this was about the time I put my foot down about the stimulants)</p><p>I won't put you thru the ugly details of all those medication trials we went thru 2001-2010 but long story short the stimulants were like trying to put out a candle by throwing gasoline on it.</p><p>The stimulants didn't cause Angel's Asperger's or bipolar but it definitely made them so much worse then they ever needed to be. Added to teenage girl hormones lets just say there were several days I felt like I had named the wrong kid Angel & I wouldn't allow myself near her because afraid I would hurt her.</p><p></p><p>UGH sorry this got so long, if any of it helps you puzzle out what's going on use it if not please disregard.</p><p></p><p>Nancy</p><p></p><p>PS Neither of my girls had any success with Abilify; Seroquel or Risperdal worked better for them and is also much less expensive. All kids different just sharing what helped mine</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="helpangel, post: 620238, member: 7170"] My recommendations to any parent who needs for there child to take psychiatric medications is to see a neurologist for a baseline EEG first and to rule out medical problems that could be causing the behaviors or problems. The problem diagnosticians have with kids is they are constantly growing and changing and most diagnosis's are based on the impressions of the person diagnosing based on what they see at time of the evaluation. Kids aren't like car's you don't hook up to a computer and get a print out to change the oil and the transmission is shot. (at least that's what it would say about my van) What I'm saying is kids diagnosis's aren't carved in stone and as I learned with both my girls the original diagnosis is often wrong. Guess need to give brief example to make point. Angel was originally diagnosis with- ADD prescribed Ritalin scary behaviors started happening they changed Ritalin for Concerta and started Depakote at 6yo had a severe manic with-psychosis episode causing inpatient at psychiatric hospital where they added Risperdal... diagnosis was changed to bipolar not otherwise specified, ODD & adHd She was 12yo before got her to developmental pediatrician who added Asperger's diagnosis to the list, her psychiatrist dropped adHd & ODD at that time also (this was about the time I put my foot down about the stimulants) I won't put you thru the ugly details of all those medication trials we went thru 2001-2010 but long story short the stimulants were like trying to put out a candle by throwing gasoline on it. The stimulants didn't cause Angel's Asperger's or bipolar but it definitely made them so much worse then they ever needed to be. Added to teenage girl hormones lets just say there were several days I felt like I had named the wrong kid Angel & I wouldn't allow myself near her because afraid I would hurt her. UGH sorry this got so long, if any of it helps you puzzle out what's going on use it if not please disregard. Nancy PS Neither of my girls had any success with Abilify; Seroquel or Risperdal worked better for them and is also much less expensive. All kids different just sharing what helped mine [/QUOTE]
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