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Clonazapan, ADHD, and sleep...anyone?
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<blockquote data-quote="Andy" data-source="post: 333736" data-attributes="member: 5096"><p>Each person reacts differently to different medications. That the main reason it is so hard for doctors to prescribe something. They do their best with the experience they have with other patients.</p><p> </p><p>Also, the effects of each medication many times changes as the child grows. What works at first may not work in a few months. What had no side effects at first may develope some later. (watch for rashes and behaviors)</p><p> </p><p>That being said, our experience with Clonazapan: My difficult child had severe anxiety. To the level that everything in his life stopped, he was not able to do anything, go anywhere. He had enterred into a self harm stage (he did not want to hurt himself but his body was "telling" him to do things that would hurt him and a few could have lead to death if he followed through).</p><p> </p><p>He was put on Flouxetine to get control of the anxiety and was also prescribed Clonazapan to take the edge off the anxiety. This truley worked as magic. However, as time went on, the Clonazapan was taking him into a disinhibitive state. It was relaxing him to the point that he had no fear over talking back to authority. He started disrespecting the teachers (something that he had never done).</p><p> </p><p>He started the medications in October of his 5th grade. That winter, I tried taking him off of the Clonazapan but he could not face the school day and school work without out it. So, I decided to put his academics above his behavior and with the help of an awesome teacher, we got him through the school year dealing with his disrespect of teachers and fellow students.</p><p></p><p>Once school was over, we were able to ween him off this medication. By fall, he was back to his respectful self. The other students were relieved that the pre-difficult child was back. There were several that did not want to return to our small school because of his behavior. It was a stress on the entire school.</p><p> </p><p>I would look at this as a short term medication. Even though we went through behavior h.e. double l, it was what my difficult child needed for his diagnosis at the time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Andy, post: 333736, member: 5096"] Each person reacts differently to different medications. That the main reason it is so hard for doctors to prescribe something. They do their best with the experience they have with other patients. Also, the effects of each medication many times changes as the child grows. What works at first may not work in a few months. What had no side effects at first may develope some later. (watch for rashes and behaviors) That being said, our experience with Clonazapan: My difficult child had severe anxiety. To the level that everything in his life stopped, he was not able to do anything, go anywhere. He had enterred into a self harm stage (he did not want to hurt himself but his body was "telling" him to do things that would hurt him and a few could have lead to death if he followed through). He was put on Flouxetine to get control of the anxiety and was also prescribed Clonazapan to take the edge off the anxiety. This truley worked as magic. However, as time went on, the Clonazapan was taking him into a disinhibitive state. It was relaxing him to the point that he had no fear over talking back to authority. He started disrespecting the teachers (something that he had never done). He started the medications in October of his 5th grade. That winter, I tried taking him off of the Clonazapan but he could not face the school day and school work without out it. So, I decided to put his academics above his behavior and with the help of an awesome teacher, we got him through the school year dealing with his disrespect of teachers and fellow students. Once school was over, we were able to ween him off this medication. By fall, he was back to his respectful self. The other students were relieved that the pre-difficult child was back. There were several that did not want to return to our small school because of his behavior. It was a stress on the entire school. I would look at this as a short term medication. Even though we went through behavior h.e. double l, it was what my difficult child needed for his diagnosis at the time. [/QUOTE]
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