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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 699001" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>My older kids each took prozac or a similar medication at least once. For my daughter, medications like prozac were NOT a good thing. They made her hyper and she behaved in ways that were really out of character. She came off of them quickly and they were only meant to be a temporary thing to help her cope with some overwhelming situations that I doubt anyone could handle without medications. For my son, medications are still crucial. It took having him take 3 different medications for him to be capable of moderating his behavior and emotions. I did not take prozac as a child because it did not exist, but I have taken it as an adult with wonderful results.</p><p></p><p>My son has been on an antidepressant most of the time since he was 7. We finally found really good help for him at that age and started medications. It took quite a LOT of trial and error to start to figure out exactly what medication combo could help him. I was a true pain in the tender regions for several psychiatrists during this process. If they had another theory of what was wrong, I insisted that they follow accepted protocols for treating that problem before I would agree to a medication. He never took a medication that I did not at least do a basic search to read what I could about it. The problem that I thought was major was that the docs would want to change his diagnosis and medication plan but they almost never wanted to follow the medication protocol set down by the board of child and adolescent psychiatrists for that condition. Mostly they waffled between Asperger's (which is my child right down the line, thankfully a fairly mild version) and Bipolar. The medications like prozac can make a person with bipolar go into a manic stage which is usually not a good thing. This is ESPECIALLY true in children. The medication protocol says that if a child has bipolar, you start with mood stabilizers, then antipsychotics, and then if they still tend to be depressed, you add a very small dose of antidepressant slowly and carefully. The doctors we met, and that most of my friends here met, wanted to either start with antidepressants or they wanted to start with both a mood stabilizer and an antidepressant at the same time. If you make more than one change at a time, how do you know what is causing a change in behavior or symptoms? You simply cannot know. If he was to slide into difficult behaviors at this point, I would push for the genetic testing for what medications are most likely to work. It gives the best odds of finding successful medications in the shortest amount of time and medication trials. It won't tell you the magic bullet, but it can help you find the right family of bullets. As I understand it, the genetic tests run from $1300 to $2000, so make sure you know if your insurance will cover it (most do from what I can tell) and how much your out of pocket costs will be.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 699001, member: 1233"] My older kids each took prozac or a similar medication at least once. For my daughter, medications like prozac were NOT a good thing. They made her hyper and she behaved in ways that were really out of character. She came off of them quickly and they were only meant to be a temporary thing to help her cope with some overwhelming situations that I doubt anyone could handle without medications. For my son, medications are still crucial. It took having him take 3 different medications for him to be capable of moderating his behavior and emotions. I did not take prozac as a child because it did not exist, but I have taken it as an adult with wonderful results. My son has been on an antidepressant most of the time since he was 7. We finally found really good help for him at that age and started medications. It took quite a LOT of trial and error to start to figure out exactly what medication combo could help him. I was a true pain in the tender regions for several psychiatrists during this process. If they had another theory of what was wrong, I insisted that they follow accepted protocols for treating that problem before I would agree to a medication. He never took a medication that I did not at least do a basic search to read what I could about it. The problem that I thought was major was that the docs would want to change his diagnosis and medication plan but they almost never wanted to follow the medication protocol set down by the board of child and adolescent psychiatrists for that condition. Mostly they waffled between Asperger's (which is my child right down the line, thankfully a fairly mild version) and Bipolar. The medications like prozac can make a person with bipolar go into a manic stage which is usually not a good thing. This is ESPECIALLY true in children. The medication protocol says that if a child has bipolar, you start with mood stabilizers, then antipsychotics, and then if they still tend to be depressed, you add a very small dose of antidepressant slowly and carefully. The doctors we met, and that most of my friends here met, wanted to either start with antidepressants or they wanted to start with both a mood stabilizer and an antidepressant at the same time. If you make more than one change at a time, how do you know what is causing a change in behavior or symptoms? You simply cannot know. If he was to slide into difficult behaviors at this point, I would push for the genetic testing for what medications are most likely to work. It gives the best odds of finding successful medications in the shortest amount of time and medication trials. It won't tell you the magic bullet, but it can help you find the right family of bullets. As I understand it, the genetic tests run from $1300 to $2000, so make sure you know if your insurance will cover it (most do from what I can tell) and how much your out of pocket costs will be. [/QUOTE]
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