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<blockquote data-quote="AllStressedOut" data-source="post: 53161" data-attributes="member: 3837"><p>Looking at that staterra chart tells me difficult child I is dosed too high, but granted, hes lost weight. It still seems extremely high, he weighs 83 lbs. We only gave him 200 mg of Zoloft for a week or two a few months ago. We have told the psychiatrist more than once we felt it was too high. difficult child I was having outbursts with his teachers and at times arguing with us. He seemed angry, but maybe we described it wrong. He also doesn't have friends and doesn't make friends. The psychiatrist said he felt he had SAD. He felt the Zoloft would help ease both of these problems. He started out at 50mg, but was still having outbursts at school, so they gradually upped the dosage. When he got to 200 mg and he seemed so spaced out is when I told the psychiatrist it was too much. If straterra is the problem, what medication works for ADHD that doesn't cause the emotional problems? This psychiatrist seems stuck on the same regimine of medications, but hes been the only psychiatrist in our experience to want to see the kids monthly to regulate medications. This seemed like a good thing to us. Their pediatrician also said the medications were out of her realm. Which again, seemed good to us. We just can't find a psychiatrist with time to see 3 kids regularly besides the one we see, that is in our plan and we feel good about. Thats why I was hoping for a referral, which we got by two people, but the guy is out of our plan. What we have found, in our plan, is they don't specialize in children, they aren't taking new patients or they can't see us for a few months.</p><p></p><p>difficult child II was put on foclin first, but only because insurance wouldn't cover straterra until he tried other drugs. Foclin wasn't doing much for him it seemed, so they added straterra and insurance covered it at that point. The mix seems to do great for academics, but he doesn't seem like the same sweet kid. Zoloft was just added when we went to the Dr this week and it was added because he seems angry. After reading posts though, I think its the straterra.</p><p></p><p>difficult child III's foclin doesn't really seem to do anything, but he started it in the summer, so maybe it did make this school year easier and I'm not sure since the diet also started in the summer. The diet seemed to make the most change in him. Although if I compare school years, he did have a better school year this year. I'm just not sure what part of that is medications, maturing/age or parenting. The Zoloft was added this week as well because of his outbursts at school before summer started. He was throwing fits on the floor when asked to change to a new center. He chased a kid with scissors because they were annoying him (per his words). So the psychiatrist thought he needed Zoloft for his anger issues. Do you think this is the wrong conclusion?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AllStressedOut, post: 53161, member: 3837"] Looking at that staterra chart tells me difficult child I is dosed too high, but granted, hes lost weight. It still seems extremely high, he weighs 83 lbs. We only gave him 200 mg of Zoloft for a week or two a few months ago. We have told the psychiatrist more than once we felt it was too high. difficult child I was having outbursts with his teachers and at times arguing with us. He seemed angry, but maybe we described it wrong. He also doesn't have friends and doesn't make friends. The psychiatrist said he felt he had SAD. He felt the Zoloft would help ease both of these problems. He started out at 50mg, but was still having outbursts at school, so they gradually upped the dosage. When he got to 200 mg and he seemed so spaced out is when I told the psychiatrist it was too much. If straterra is the problem, what medication works for ADHD that doesn't cause the emotional problems? This psychiatrist seems stuck on the same regimine of medications, but hes been the only psychiatrist in our experience to want to see the kids monthly to regulate medications. This seemed like a good thing to us. Their pediatrician also said the medications were out of her realm. Which again, seemed good to us. We just can't find a psychiatrist with time to see 3 kids regularly besides the one we see, that is in our plan and we feel good about. Thats why I was hoping for a referral, which we got by two people, but the guy is out of our plan. What we have found, in our plan, is they don't specialize in children, they aren't taking new patients or they can't see us for a few months. difficult child II was put on foclin first, but only because insurance wouldn't cover straterra until he tried other drugs. Foclin wasn't doing much for him it seemed, so they added straterra and insurance covered it at that point. The mix seems to do great for academics, but he doesn't seem like the same sweet kid. Zoloft was just added when we went to the Dr this week and it was added because he seems angry. After reading posts though, I think its the straterra. difficult child III's foclin doesn't really seem to do anything, but he started it in the summer, so maybe it did make this school year easier and I'm not sure since the diet also started in the summer. The diet seemed to make the most change in him. Although if I compare school years, he did have a better school year this year. I'm just not sure what part of that is medications, maturing/age or parenting. The Zoloft was added this week as well because of his outbursts at school before summer started. He was throwing fits on the floor when asked to change to a new center. He chased a kid with scissors because they were annoying him (per his words). So the psychiatrist thought he needed Zoloft for his anger issues. Do you think this is the wrong conclusion? [/QUOTE]
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