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I can say that it is normal to not like your son especially during a rough time, but we always love them. My son gained a tremendous amount of weight on Risperdal, and it is an unfortunate side effect. We ended up switching him off of it also due to other reasons, but now we are still stuck...

I just want to give a HUGE Thank you to everyone who replied! It was a huge weight lifted off my shoulders this morning to see you have had similar experiences with your difficult child's. I didn't want him to be clinging and crying to leave with us or anything because that would have also been crushing...

Little Bear was admitted last tuesday, and I am still an emotional wreck. I have some questions that I was hoping some of you can answer. It was definitly for the best because Little Bear was raging that day in his Dr. office and had to go by ambulance. I felt like I was in a daze. It seems so...

Thanks for all your responses! jal~ your post made me feel better knowing you had a positive experience! From what I know the Alternative Placement is a seperate school offered through the County Special Education Services so I am assuming that only Special Education students are placed there. His Special Education...

Little Bears school contacted me last week to let me know they had notified an alternative placement, just in case, because of Little Bears continuing aggressive behavior. He is actually MUCH better than he used to be but continues to have occasional issues at school. He was officially diagnosis last...

Thanks for all the information!! I am looking into trying to get a Medicaid Waiver now so hopefully we can get it!! Thank you so much for that medication website I am going to go on there and see what I can do!! Thank goodness I had filled 3 of his medications a couple weeks ago when his insurance was...

I just wanted to pop in and let everyone know how Little Bear is doing since my last post! I am keeping my fingers crossed, but Little Bear is doing extremely well since he started intuniv right before christmas. We went to his last appointment and talked a lot about him possibly having a diagnosis of high...

Back from our long appointment! Little Bear has never been on Tenex so the Intuniv is new for us. He will be starting at 1mg dose which is the starting dose for 7 days and then it is slowly increased. We are weaning him off the Celexa starting tomorrow slowly and then it will be a watch and wait...

smallworld~ Thanks for that info! He has been on the Seroquel for quite some time now so the Celexa might very well be the culprit. He was only put on it a couple of months ago to help with aggression which did work for awhile. We are going to his Dr. appointment in a couple of hours to talk about...

Thank you for all your responses! They really helped ease my mind about this new symptom. We are going back to his Dr. on Monday and over the phone talking with her I think we are going to stop the Celexa anyway so hopefully this helps! One thing I have learned after going through so many...

The medication change was a vicious cycle it seems! We tried to raise the seroquel because he was still having issues, just not aggression. When we raised the Seroquel I saw some aggression come out and he had a violent outburst last week. I called his Dr. and she lowered back down to his original...

A little backstory....Little Bear started having a relapse of his aggressive/violent behavior about 6 days ago which was a shock. We tried to raise his Seroquel then lowered it back down which was the only medication change we made. He was put on Celexa which really helped the aggression and we had one...

I just wanted to tell everyone a big THANK YOU!! We tried to raise Little Bear's Seroquel with terrible results... he started raging again. So I called his Dr. and she we are going to see her in 2 weeks to talk about Tenex for his ADHD symptoms!! YAY If I wouldn't have gotten such good advice...

Thank you for all the great info and medication information! It is so hard finding a balance and anytime we change any medications or dosages it can through Little Bear out of whack. I think if we can somehow get those ADHD symptoms under control we would be in a great place!! The big issues have been him...

It is good that you do have an alternative program and that sounds like a great option. Even though Little Bear is only in kindergarten he definitly was falling behind in fine motor skills, social skills, and all other skills. He had major aggression issues but it has finally stopped since we...

Thanks for that info! It's very interesting because we didn't have any major improvements with Little Bear until adding Seroquel. Abilify did not work for him at all. However, he is also having major weight gain this last month when we raised his Seroquel. Right now I am trying hard to adjust...

Little Bear is being referred to a great children's hospital in our state and we are now waiting for his appointment to their psychiatry clinic. It takes 6-8 weeks after referral to be called for an appointment. so I am trying to get all my question's together now. We have tried all kinds of medications and...

My difficult child is on Depakote (same class as Lamictal) and Seroquel (same class as Abilify). I have read up a lot about adding a 2nd Mood Stabalizer such as Lithium to that combo because difficult child also has agression/rage issues. Our Dr. added Celexa to his mix which actually helped with agression. We tried to...

Smallworld~ Thank you so much for that info! That helped answer a lot of my questions abt why he could have had a possible seizure while on Depakote, and my concerns about testing:happy: This is why I always come here for info because someone always has good advice and answers!!

Thanks for the input MWM! He had issues before he started medications with speech, clumsiness, fine motor skills. which I mentioned to EVERY dr. we have seen. Everyone seemed to think it wasn't a big deal until recently when his behaviors improved and you could actually see the "symptoms" a little...