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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 115448" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>Hi, Bugsy! My difficult child is going through a medication "experiment" as well. He's been on Depakote a few months now- it was added to lithobid (time release lithium) to help address "hyperness", excessive talkiveness, restlessness, etc. It appears to have helped these things but his memory and other cognitive abilities have decreased (he went from A's & B's to D's & F's). It appears to be medications, but we aren't positive yet. The psychiatrist mentioned adding a stimulate to the mix, but we haven't done that yet and I'm not fond of that idea without seeing more evidence that he needs it for some reason other than compensating for effects of mood stabilizers. I should also mention, when my difficult child was titrating up, he hit one dosage that really wasn't so high but it turned him into a completely different person- it was beyond raging and I'd never seen him this way before- he was wild eyed and appeared like someone who had OD'd on street-drugs. (My son is 12 and so far there are no signs of any kind of street drugs.) I immediately reduced his dosage of depakote back down and this went away. As others have mentioned, keep in mind that medications effect different people different ways, so don't expect to see exactly what someone else has seen.</p><p></p><p>I was thinking about asking psychiatrist about seroquel. What experience did you have with that? Edited: Sorry- you said Straterra- I was thinking he's been on seroquel- Never mind!!</p><p></p><p>Thanks, and good luck! keep us posted-</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 115448, member: 3699"] Hi, Bugsy! My difficult child is going through a medication "experiment" as well. He's been on Depakote a few months now- it was added to lithobid (time release lithium) to help address "hyperness", excessive talkiveness, restlessness, etc. It appears to have helped these things but his memory and other cognitive abilities have decreased (he went from A's & B's to D's & F's). It appears to be medications, but we aren't positive yet. The psychiatrist mentioned adding a stimulate to the mix, but we haven't done that yet and I'm not fond of that idea without seeing more evidence that he needs it for some reason other than compensating for effects of mood stabilizers. I should also mention, when my difficult child was titrating up, he hit one dosage that really wasn't so high but it turned him into a completely different person- it was beyond raging and I'd never seen him this way before- he was wild eyed and appeared like someone who had OD'd on street-drugs. (My son is 12 and so far there are no signs of any kind of street drugs.) I immediately reduced his dosage of depakote back down and this went away. As others have mentioned, keep in mind that medications effect different people different ways, so don't expect to see exactly what someone else has seen. I was thinking about asking psychiatrist about seroquel. What experience did you have with that? [i] [/i] Edited: Sorry- you said Straterra- I was thinking he's been on seroquel- Never mind!! Thanks, and good luck! keep us posted- [/QUOTE]
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