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<blockquote data-quote="Renea" data-source="post: 479127" data-attributes="member: 13180"><p>Before the medication days, he had a lot of sensory issues. His clothes couldn't get wet, things had to be in perfect order, noisy places would have him with his hands over his ears and then lashing out at everyone. He couldn't handle going to any kind of "kid" function. School, birthday parties, even story time at the library were almost impossible to attend for a very long time. He really wanted to go and would be SO excited but once we would get there he would get soooo overwhelmed by all the noise and chattering of other kids. He would get really frustrated, cry, lash out and just get nasty in general until we would just have to get up and leave. Then he would cry the whole way home because he had to leave. </p><p></p><p>He was a major perfectionist. He still is but it isn't as debilitating as it was back then. He couldn't color in a coloring book without throwing a fit. He would accidentally color in spot with a crayon he didn't want to use and then he would throw a huge tantrum over it. Same thing would happen with drawing, painting, playing with legos.. Anything that might not work out perfectly was a big source of meltdowns. Once I found him crying non-stop while trying to draw a happy face on a piece of paper. The big dilemma?? He couldn't draw a perfectly round circle for the face.</p><p></p><p>He hated being held, picked up, hugged, etc. Even as a baby! I have so many pics of him under one year where I am holding him and he has his arms stretched straight out from me and he looks like he is pushing away from me in the picture! We couldn't console him when he was hurt or sick. If I tried to pick him up and soothe him, that would often make things 10 times worse. </p><p></p><p>He's really smart. He had a speech delay and didn't really start talking until he was two but he walked early. He seemed to need to be moving constantly. He blurts things out to complete strangers. Talks about EVERYTHING to them. Even personal things. We've been working on this and he is doing better about it. This time last year I couldn't even take him in the grocery store without him going straight up to the cashier and just starting to talk about whatever happened to be on his mind at the moment. lol </p><p></p><p>My biggest mistake as a mom has been not pushing for a diagnosis from an earlier age. I did bring up my concerns. I started talking to doctors when he was only about 8 months old. Before that he had just been a very fussy baby but by 8 months he wasn't mimicking sounds, turning towards us when we talk or even really seeming to notice sounds around him. I thought he had a severe hearing problem. doctor did a hearing test and said everything looked normal. When he wasn't talking by age two, we were referred to a speech pathologist and speech therapy began. Sensory issues and irritability were a big problem at that age but doctors just said it was probably just the "terrible twos" and him being frustrated because of his speech delay. By three, he was kicked out of one preschool. By four, he was banging his head on the floor at the new preschool, hitting himself, doing horrible with any sort of transition and telling the teachers he wanted to kill himself. At that point we took him to see a developmental pediatrician who said his problems were "neurologically based but not enough information to make a diagnosis at that time. Possibly in the future, with age, a diagnosis would be more clear" ???? And so on and so on and so on for the past few years. I really wish I had put my foot down when he was just two years old and demanded answers and demanded help. </p><p></p><p>So now here we are. Things are definitely better and the prozac has helped. I'm just not sure it's a best bet longterm but I have no clue what our other option is either. I have looked into Strattera and I'm keeping it in mind in case he needs to go off this current medication and go on another medication in the future. We tried Vyvanse and that made things horrible but fortunately only lasted the one day. We tried Intuniv for about a month and I feel like it took us a good six months to recover from the one month he was on it. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Renea, post: 479127, member: 13180"] Before the medication days, he had a lot of sensory issues. His clothes couldn't get wet, things had to be in perfect order, noisy places would have him with his hands over his ears and then lashing out at everyone. He couldn't handle going to any kind of "kid" function. School, birthday parties, even story time at the library were almost impossible to attend for a very long time. He really wanted to go and would be SO excited but once we would get there he would get soooo overwhelmed by all the noise and chattering of other kids. He would get really frustrated, cry, lash out and just get nasty in general until we would just have to get up and leave. Then he would cry the whole way home because he had to leave. He was a major perfectionist. He still is but it isn't as debilitating as it was back then. He couldn't color in a coloring book without throwing a fit. He would accidentally color in spot with a crayon he didn't want to use and then he would throw a huge tantrum over it. Same thing would happen with drawing, painting, playing with legos.. Anything that might not work out perfectly was a big source of meltdowns. Once I found him crying non-stop while trying to draw a happy face on a piece of paper. The big dilemma?? He couldn't draw a perfectly round circle for the face. He hated being held, picked up, hugged, etc. Even as a baby! I have so many pics of him under one year where I am holding him and he has his arms stretched straight out from me and he looks like he is pushing away from me in the picture! We couldn't console him when he was hurt or sick. If I tried to pick him up and soothe him, that would often make things 10 times worse. He's really smart. He had a speech delay and didn't really start talking until he was two but he walked early. He seemed to need to be moving constantly. He blurts things out to complete strangers. Talks about EVERYTHING to them. Even personal things. We've been working on this and he is doing better about it. This time last year I couldn't even take him in the grocery store without him going straight up to the cashier and just starting to talk about whatever happened to be on his mind at the moment. lol My biggest mistake as a mom has been not pushing for a diagnosis from an earlier age. I did bring up my concerns. I started talking to doctors when he was only about 8 months old. Before that he had just been a very fussy baby but by 8 months he wasn't mimicking sounds, turning towards us when we talk or even really seeming to notice sounds around him. I thought he had a severe hearing problem. doctor did a hearing test and said everything looked normal. When he wasn't talking by age two, we were referred to a speech pathologist and speech therapy began. Sensory issues and irritability were a big problem at that age but doctors just said it was probably just the "terrible twos" and him being frustrated because of his speech delay. By three, he was kicked out of one preschool. By four, he was banging his head on the floor at the new preschool, hitting himself, doing horrible with any sort of transition and telling the teachers he wanted to kill himself. At that point we took him to see a developmental pediatrician who said his problems were "neurologically based but not enough information to make a diagnosis at that time. Possibly in the future, with age, a diagnosis would be more clear" ???? And so on and so on and so on for the past few years. I really wish I had put my foot down when he was just two years old and demanded answers and demanded help. So now here we are. Things are definitely better and the prozac has helped. I'm just not sure it's a best bet longterm but I have no clue what our other option is either. I have looked into Strattera and I'm keeping it in mind in case he needs to go off this current medication and go on another medication in the future. We tried Vyvanse and that made things horrible but fortunately only lasted the one day. We tried Intuniv for about a month and I feel like it took us a good six months to recover from the one month he was on it. :( [/QUOTE]
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