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Ash
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Hi! My son just got prescribed Intuniv for his ODD. He was diagnosed about 4 months ago and fits every single criteria. Every symptom of ODD he has. I was so glad to finally get a diagnosis. We tried for months with therapy but decided finally to go the medication route as he was not even willing to talk with his therapist. He would literally just sit and stare at the wall.
We were given Intuniv and we are on day 1. It took me an hour to get him to even take the pill. I tried everything. Yogurt, apple sauce, bribery with money, bribery with staying up late, bribery with soda ( which he never gets ) Finally he was able to put the pill in his mouth and take some big huge drinks of soda and get it to go down. After he refused to open his mouth and let me see if it was really swallowed and stomped off grumbling at me. I think it went down, im pretty sure it did. I mean he is an oppositional child after all, hes going to oppose the medications as well !
He is on 1mg and we will go up to 2mg. His doctor mentioned him being on 3mg by the end of week 2. He is 6 years old and weighs 48 lbs. Do you think 3mg is too much? Does it really depend on the child and the severity of their symptoms? The 2mg pill is going to be harder for him to swallow I think so I may be ok with the 3mg for only that reason but I just worry that is too high of a dosage? What should I look out for to be able to tell the dosage is too high?
Thanks so much!
Ash
We were given Intuniv and we are on day 1. It took me an hour to get him to even take the pill. I tried everything. Yogurt, apple sauce, bribery with money, bribery with staying up late, bribery with soda ( which he never gets ) Finally he was able to put the pill in his mouth and take some big huge drinks of soda and get it to go down. After he refused to open his mouth and let me see if it was really swallowed and stomped off grumbling at me. I think it went down, im pretty sure it did. I mean he is an oppositional child after all, hes going to oppose the medications as well !
He is on 1mg and we will go up to 2mg. His doctor mentioned him being on 3mg by the end of week 2. He is 6 years old and weighs 48 lbs. Do you think 3mg is too much? Does it really depend on the child and the severity of their symptoms? The 2mg pill is going to be harder for him to swallow I think so I may be ok with the 3mg for only that reason but I just worry that is too high of a dosage? What should I look out for to be able to tell the dosage is too high?
Thanks so much!
Ash
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