First time posting -
Need some advice with our experience so far with chlonodine. My ds is 7 and they have not diagnosis him with anything so far. They suspected sensory issues, anxiety and aspergers except when evaluated he had lots of the traits but not enough for the diagnosis. So to make a terribly long story short my son's main issue is his moodiness and aggression. I have rejected medication up to this point (3yrs in) and have tried lots of other things that have helped improve his behavior. He went from major meltdowns daily (3-4x) to 1 meltdown once a month. He can have minor things everyday where I intervene or assist him to keep him calm. I am home schooling him because his 1st meltdown of the year was pretty severe, grab a hold of kid and said he was going to kill him. School was pushing to either get rid of him to Special Education class or have me medicate. I was not willing to do either so I home school. However, my ds wants to go to school and do all the normal things all kids do. Which leads me to I guess my only alternative, that if I want him mainstreamed that I will have to medicate to keep him there. So..... here I am. I have done alot of reading and I am scared to death of the medications. His dr knows how reluctant I am about medicating so she is willing to try less severe medications maybe to ease me in or something. And finally my question! What do I do? We started him on the chlonodine patch .1mg because sometimes this can help kids with-impulse control and aggression. He has been on for 4 days and pretty much sleeps 4-6 hrs. during the day, looks terrible, dark circles under eyes and even when he just wakes us he doesn't look rested. Do I keep him on this? Will he adjust and not be so sleepy? I haven't seen any change in his temperment. He just mostly seems tired and doesn't have hardly any energy. He will play for about 45 minutes and then he has to stop and cover up and lay down. What do I do? I wanted so badly to have this medication work on him and now I am so disappointed. I do not want to put my son on respirdol which is what dr would have done if I was ok with it. I am scared about what this can do to his brain and how it is going to effect him. He is my perfect little boy and it breaks my heart to medicate him.
Any suggestions and support would be greatly appreciated.
Sorry so long-
N
Need some advice with our experience so far with chlonodine. My ds is 7 and they have not diagnosis him with anything so far. They suspected sensory issues, anxiety and aspergers except when evaluated he had lots of the traits but not enough for the diagnosis. So to make a terribly long story short my son's main issue is his moodiness and aggression. I have rejected medication up to this point (3yrs in) and have tried lots of other things that have helped improve his behavior. He went from major meltdowns daily (3-4x) to 1 meltdown once a month. He can have minor things everyday where I intervene or assist him to keep him calm. I am home schooling him because his 1st meltdown of the year was pretty severe, grab a hold of kid and said he was going to kill him. School was pushing to either get rid of him to Special Education class or have me medicate. I was not willing to do either so I home school. However, my ds wants to go to school and do all the normal things all kids do. Which leads me to I guess my only alternative, that if I want him mainstreamed that I will have to medicate to keep him there. So..... here I am. I have done alot of reading and I am scared to death of the medications. His dr knows how reluctant I am about medicating so she is willing to try less severe medications maybe to ease me in or something. And finally my question! What do I do? We started him on the chlonodine patch .1mg because sometimes this can help kids with-impulse control and aggression. He has been on for 4 days and pretty much sleeps 4-6 hrs. during the day, looks terrible, dark circles under eyes and even when he just wakes us he doesn't look rested. Do I keep him on this? Will he adjust and not be so sleepy? I haven't seen any change in his temperment. He just mostly seems tired and doesn't have hardly any energy. He will play for about 45 minutes and then he has to stop and cover up and lay down. What do I do? I wanted so badly to have this medication work on him and now I am so disappointed. I do not want to put my son on respirdol which is what dr would have done if I was ok with it. I am scared about what this can do to his brain and how it is going to effect him. He is my perfect little boy and it breaks my heart to medicate him.
Any suggestions and support would be greatly appreciated.
Sorry so long-
N