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<blockquote data-quote="pepperidge" data-source="post: 255112" data-attributes="member: 2322"><p>Janna,</p><p></p><p>my oldest with high anxiety and tendency towards depression was put on Prozac (not Zoloft but similar). He became totally disinhibited after a few weeks. (he started at 5 mg, a low dose) We had to double his ADHD medications to get his frontal lobe working. Disinhibited as in stuffing bread into the VCR, totally silly out of control, starting a little fire outside, stealing...things that we had never seen before. I will never give him another SSRI. Lamictal has been a godsend along with a low dose of Risperdal and low dose of Adderall. Oh and how could I forget, his first psychiatrist put him on Lexapro at 5 mg for 3 days, then 10 mg (a healthy dose, especially for a medication sensitive underweight 3 rd grader, this was before I become a warrior mom). The minute he went up to the 10 mg dose he was literally turning over desks in his classroom. Not a child given to disruptive behavior at all in school. Good psychiatrists we have seen subsequently were not suprised by what happened and are not given to prescribing SSRIs easily.</p><p></p><p>my youngest with fetal alchohol, anger issues, somewhat obsessive tendencies, some anxiety was prescribed Zoloft to help him chill out. he was on for a few months or so--my notetaking has gotten worse over time. While I dont remember any obvious terrible effects, didn't seem to help his anger at all and maybe made it worse. I'm trying a low dose now of 5_hTP to see if that will do some good. maybe a bit. He had a really bad reaction to Tenex. He's been on 15 different medications I think, none have really helped very much.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pepperidge, post: 255112, member: 2322"] Janna, my oldest with high anxiety and tendency towards depression was put on Prozac (not Zoloft but similar). He became totally disinhibited after a few weeks. (he started at 5 mg, a low dose) We had to double his ADHD medications to get his frontal lobe working. Disinhibited as in stuffing bread into the VCR, totally silly out of control, starting a little fire outside, stealing...things that we had never seen before. I will never give him another SSRI. Lamictal has been a godsend along with a low dose of Risperdal and low dose of Adderall. Oh and how could I forget, his first psychiatrist put him on Lexapro at 5 mg for 3 days, then 10 mg (a healthy dose, especially for a medication sensitive underweight 3 rd grader, this was before I become a warrior mom). The minute he went up to the 10 mg dose he was literally turning over desks in his classroom. Not a child given to disruptive behavior at all in school. Good psychiatrists we have seen subsequently were not suprised by what happened and are not given to prescribing SSRIs easily. my youngest with fetal alchohol, anger issues, somewhat obsessive tendencies, some anxiety was prescribed Zoloft to help him chill out. he was on for a few months or so--my notetaking has gotten worse over time. While I dont remember any obvious terrible effects, didn't seem to help his anger at all and maybe made it worse. I'm trying a low dose now of 5_hTP to see if that will do some good. maybe a bit. He had a really bad reaction to Tenex. He's been on 15 different medications I think, none have really helped very much. [/QUOTE]
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