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<blockquote data-quote="Wiped Out" data-source="post: 186569" data-attributes="member: 1631"><p>Steely,</p><p>Interesting post to me because I have been thinking about this a lot lately. My difficult child is a lot younger than yours but I've been wondering just how much cognitive dulling he experiences because of his medications.</p><p></p><p>When he was in first grade and the sd did testing, he qualified for Special Education because of his behavior. He scored in the superior range in a couple of areas (verbal/linguistic and something else) and was above average to average in other things. At that point nothing was below average.</p><p></p><p>Two years ago when we had his neuro-psychiatric testing done, he was extremely below average in everything, some things as low as the 1-5 percentile range. </p><p></p><p>Granted the testing was done by two different individuals, different tests and I put much more stock in the nuero-psychiatric's testing but still it is an amazing difference.</p><p></p><p>Before medications he was such a creative problem solver, not so much anymore.</p><p></p><p>Sorry, I know I'm not helping much but I do understand where you are coming from. With my difficult child I'm 99&#37; certain medications are necessary, still there is that nagging doubt.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wiped Out, post: 186569, member: 1631"] Steely, Interesting post to me because I have been thinking about this a lot lately. My difficult child is a lot younger than yours but I've been wondering just how much cognitive dulling he experiences because of his medications. When he was in first grade and the sd did testing, he qualified for Special Education because of his behavior. He scored in the superior range in a couple of areas (verbal/linguistic and something else) and was above average to average in other things. At that point nothing was below average. Two years ago when we had his neuro-psychiatric testing done, he was extremely below average in everything, some things as low as the 1-5 percentile range. Granted the testing was done by two different individuals, different tests and I put much more stock in the nuero-psychiatric's testing but still it is an amazing difference. Before medications he was such a creative problem solver, not so much anymore. Sorry, I know I'm not helping much but I do understand where you are coming from. With my difficult child I'm 99% certain medications are necessary, still there is that nagging doubt. [/QUOTE]
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