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<blockquote data-quote="emotionallybankrupt" data-source="post: 353190" data-attributes="member: 8226"><p>Regardless of the specific combo, I'd beware the add, add, add approach if the current medications appear to have either no benefit or a negative benefit. I have learned that doctors have very different approaches. Many just keep adding, and others are more likely to stop one and try another.</p><p> </p><p>Often a mixture of several does work, and if you can find an effective combination, that's a wonderful thing. I have no problem with the adding if the current drugs are helping but just not enough.</p><p> </p><p>I think the most important thing to guard against is winding up on so many different drugs that, when things are not going well, it's so hard to untangle what drug is causing the problem, or what drug simply doesn't get along with another drug for that particular person.</p><p> </p><p>The other issue is medication compliance. Is your difficult child good about this? The more medications and the higher the dosages of medications on board, the more scary if a difficult child pulls a power play to go cold turkey on all of them. My difficult child crashed hard.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="emotionallybankrupt, post: 353190, member: 8226"] Regardless of the specific combo, I'd beware the add, add, add approach if the current medications appear to have either no benefit or a negative benefit. I have learned that doctors have very different approaches. Many just keep adding, and others are more likely to stop one and try another. Often a mixture of several does work, and if you can find an effective combination, that's a wonderful thing. I have no problem with the adding if the current drugs are helping but just not enough. I think the most important thing to guard against is winding up on so many different drugs that, when things are not going well, it's so hard to untangle what drug is causing the problem, or what drug simply doesn't get along with another drug for that particular person. The other issue is medication compliance. Is your difficult child good about this? The more medications and the higher the dosages of medications on board, the more scary if a difficult child pulls a power play to go cold turkey on all of them. My difficult child crashed hard. [/QUOTE]
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