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diagnosis changed from ADHD to Asperger's - FRUSTRATED!
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<blockquote data-quote="Ellenm0m" data-source="post: 449349" data-attributes="member: 12491"><p>Thanks for your response. </p><p>As for medications, lets see, he was on Adderall when he was 6, and it made him violent. the dr wanted to give him a secondary diagnosis of ODD, but when she took him off the Adderall, the rages stopped. Then he did Focalin which worked for a while in getting him to focus, but he did not sleep well while he was on it. He had to take melatonin to get any sleep at all, and then he would still wake up at 5 in the morning. They added Straterra to the mix and he stopped sleeping altogether, so we took him off of that...I think he was 10 when they did that. Then when he was 12, they switched him to Concerta because it was not supposed to have the side effects of the Focalin....bull-poopy to that....Anyway, that was when he started acting out and having suicidal thoughts. He has always come in asking us what we wanted because he thought someone was talking to him, but never said that the voices told him to do anything. That was something that came out in therapy, and could have been a side effect of the Concerta, so he is still in therapy for that. Anyway, last November he started having rages again, starting fights at school (He beat one kid up and they called the police because the kid called him "Ginger"...he has red hair.) Anyway, after that we started going to counselling and things were not really getting any better. Then in early April 2011 he was brought home by the police twice in a week at 2 am and at 4 am because he couldn't sleep so he went for a walk. Then he started another fight at school because a friend of his went to the nurse and the nurse wouldn't tell him what was going on with the friend so he started pushing people as he went through the hall and a bigger kid pushed back. Another trip home by the police. I kept him home for 2 days of suspension and the night before he was supposed to go back to school he started lighting fires in his bedroom. So, I took him to the emergency room and told them I thought he was a danger to himself and to my family, so they put him in an inpatient psychiatric facility for 2 weeks. That is where the voices and stuff came out. The dr there took him off of all of his medications for the first week and observed him with no medications and we had a conference and he said he thought it was more likely to be Asperger's so we did the testing for that and they put him on Abilify. He is sleeping now, thank goodness!! </p><p></p><p>Wow, sorry for such a long rant, I sometimes forget myself when someone asks what is wrong.....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ellenm0m, post: 449349, member: 12491"] Thanks for your response. As for medications, lets see, he was on Adderall when he was 6, and it made him violent. the dr wanted to give him a secondary diagnosis of ODD, but when she took him off the Adderall, the rages stopped. Then he did Focalin which worked for a while in getting him to focus, but he did not sleep well while he was on it. He had to take melatonin to get any sleep at all, and then he would still wake up at 5 in the morning. They added Straterra to the mix and he stopped sleeping altogether, so we took him off of that...I think he was 10 when they did that. Then when he was 12, they switched him to Concerta because it was not supposed to have the side effects of the Focalin....bull-poopy to that....Anyway, that was when he started acting out and having suicidal thoughts. He has always come in asking us what we wanted because he thought someone was talking to him, but never said that the voices told him to do anything. That was something that came out in therapy, and could have been a side effect of the Concerta, so he is still in therapy for that. Anyway, last November he started having rages again, starting fights at school (He beat one kid up and they called the police because the kid called him "Ginger"...he has red hair.) Anyway, after that we started going to counselling and things were not really getting any better. Then in early April 2011 he was brought home by the police twice in a week at 2 am and at 4 am because he couldn't sleep so he went for a walk. Then he started another fight at school because a friend of his went to the nurse and the nurse wouldn't tell him what was going on with the friend so he started pushing people as he went through the hall and a bigger kid pushed back. Another trip home by the police. I kept him home for 2 days of suspension and the night before he was supposed to go back to school he started lighting fires in his bedroom. So, I took him to the emergency room and told them I thought he was a danger to himself and to my family, so they put him in an inpatient psychiatric facility for 2 weeks. That is where the voices and stuff came out. The dr there took him off of all of his medications for the first week and observed him with no medications and we had a conference and he said he thought it was more likely to be Asperger's so we did the testing for that and they put him on Abilify. He is sleeping now, thank goodness!! Wow, sorry for such a long rant, I sometimes forget myself when someone asks what is wrong..... [/QUOTE]
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