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<blockquote data-quote="smallworld" data-source="post: 327909" data-attributes="member: 2423"><p>In your shoes, I don't think I would increase Imipramine before letting the psychiatrist know that your son stayed up practically all night. What you're describing sounds like antidepressant-induced hypomania/mania, and I'm concerned that if you add more antidepressant, you may make him worse instead of better. Kind of adding fuel to the fire, so to speak.</p><p> </p><p>I'm not a doctor, obviously, just a parent who has three children who have had lots of bad reactions to SSRIs. I'm having a hard time understanding why your psychiatrist would put your son on two ADs, but I think the combo is revving him up instead of calming him down. In your shoes, I'd ask to wean him off the Prozac, which can cause a lot of disinhibition. My own son had a rage reaction to one day of 5 mg Prozac and broke a window in our house. My younger daughter got giddy and disinhibited on Prozac and then had a 45-minute rage in the car. We discontinued it after that.</p><p> </p><p>By way of history, my son also had a manic reaction to three weeks of 25 Zoloft that did not settle down for weeks. We needed to start him on mood stabilizers after that. </p><p> </p><p>I do want to warn you that reaction to medications is not diagnostic in and of itself. But we now know beyond a doubt that my son will never take SSRIs again. He just can't handle them at all.</p><p> </p><p>Please be careful with what medications you give your son at this point. You don't want him to get worse instead of better. Hang in there.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smallworld, post: 327909, member: 2423"] In your shoes, I don't think I would increase Imipramine before letting the psychiatrist know that your son stayed up practically all night. What you're describing sounds like antidepressant-induced hypomania/mania, and I'm concerned that if you add more antidepressant, you may make him worse instead of better. Kind of adding fuel to the fire, so to speak. I'm not a doctor, obviously, just a parent who has three children who have had lots of bad reactions to SSRIs. I'm having a hard time understanding why your psychiatrist would put your son on two ADs, but I think the combo is revving him up instead of calming him down. In your shoes, I'd ask to wean him off the Prozac, which can cause a lot of disinhibition. My own son had a rage reaction to one day of 5 mg Prozac and broke a window in our house. My younger daughter got giddy and disinhibited on Prozac and then had a 45-minute rage in the car. We discontinued it after that. By way of history, my son also had a manic reaction to three weeks of 25 Zoloft that did not settle down for weeks. We needed to start him on mood stabilizers after that. I do want to warn you that reaction to medications is not diagnostic in and of itself. But we now know beyond a doubt that my son will never take SSRIs again. He just can't handle them at all. Please be careful with what medications you give your son at this point. You don't want him to get worse instead of better. Hang in there. [/QUOTE]
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