Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
New profile posts
Latest activity
Internet Search
Members
Current visitors
New profile posts
Search profile posts
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Forums
Parent Support Forums
General Parenting
difficult child's "brain feels funny" (long)
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="gcvmom" data-source="post: 327973" data-attributes="member: 3444"><p>Some people cannot tolerate tricyclics, and just because he's been on it for a while doesn't mean he can't eventually develop a bad reaction to it. My difficult child 1 became very disinhibited on amitriptyline, another tricyclic. It also made him very irritable and aggressive, but this came on so subtlely that we thought it was just puberty-related issues because of the timing. But as behaviors got worse (not all the time, but mostly when his stimulants wore off), his psychiatrist suggested lowering the dose. And when I saw that the behaviors improved with this move, we decided to just eliminate that altogether.</p><p> </p><p>The brain "funniness" and other behavior really does sound like hypomania. We've experienced that here with my difficult child 2 who has a bipolar diagnosis.</p><p> </p><p>Like others have said, I'd be inclined to back off on one of the medications first before increasing anything.</p><p> </p><p>Good luck!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gcvmom, post: 327973, member: 3444"] Some people cannot tolerate tricyclics, and just because he's been on it for a while doesn't mean he can't eventually develop a bad reaction to it. My difficult child 1 became very disinhibited on amitriptyline, another tricyclic. It also made him very irritable and aggressive, but this came on so subtlely that we thought it was just puberty-related issues because of the timing. But as behaviors got worse (not all the time, but mostly when his stimulants wore off), his psychiatrist suggested lowering the dose. And when I saw that the behaviors improved with this move, we decided to just eliminate that altogether. The brain "funniness" and other behavior really does sound like hypomania. We've experienced that here with my difficult child 2 who has a bipolar diagnosis. Like others have said, I'd be inclined to back off on one of the medications first before increasing anything. Good luck! [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Parent Support Forums
General Parenting
difficult child's "brain feels funny" (long)
Top