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6 year old son keeps getting kicked out of school
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<blockquote data-quote="kim75062" data-source="post: 701243" data-attributes="member: 20727"><p>So far he's been on concerta which at the 18mg dose had him literally bouncing off my walls within 30 mins. After about 2 hours he crashed and was whinny, clingy and just the most grumpy I've ever seen him. The doctor thought the dose was to low and wore off to fast so upped it to 27mg. Yeah I considered padding my walls and furniture that week.... Same thing but lasted longer. I told his pediatrician if he wants to try to up it again he's staying with him that week. So we decided no more stimulants until we get a better evaluation and proper diagnosis. Tenex seemed to help early this year, it was the first medication we tried. At the low morning dose he was only tired but less impulsive because of being tired but still way out of hand. Added a second mid day dose and all he did was sleep even at school. And bed wetting started. Waited a week to see if he'd adjust but no. tried Intuniv because it's all day after he was six but it didn't help much either and if the dose was increased it snowed him. When it wore off he was in a VERY bad mood and mean and spiteful which is not like him at all. With his extreme ups and downs that he has bi-polar is not a far fetched diagnosis but he's only 6 so no doctor would ever agree to that. </p><p></p><p>I asked his pediatrician yesterday about abilify because if he is bi-polar it shouldn't cause the manic episodes like some medications would and if he is on the aspergers scale somewhere it can only help. On low doses the side effects aren't horrible and are not to common. I know that risperdal is the go to antipsychotic now for kids but being a nurse I know and have seen the horrible permanent side effects of that drug and will never agree to give it him.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kim75062, post: 701243, member: 20727"] So far he's been on concerta which at the 18mg dose had him literally bouncing off my walls within 30 mins. After about 2 hours he crashed and was whinny, clingy and just the most grumpy I've ever seen him. The doctor thought the dose was to low and wore off to fast so upped it to 27mg. Yeah I considered padding my walls and furniture that week.... Same thing but lasted longer. I told his pediatrician if he wants to try to up it again he's staying with him that week. So we decided no more stimulants until we get a better evaluation and proper diagnosis. Tenex seemed to help early this year, it was the first medication we tried. At the low morning dose he was only tired but less impulsive because of being tired but still way out of hand. Added a second mid day dose and all he did was sleep even at school. And bed wetting started. Waited a week to see if he'd adjust but no. tried Intuniv because it's all day after he was six but it didn't help much either and if the dose was increased it snowed him. When it wore off he was in a VERY bad mood and mean and spiteful which is not like him at all. With his extreme ups and downs that he has bi-polar is not a far fetched diagnosis but he's only 6 so no doctor would ever agree to that. I asked his pediatrician yesterday about abilify because if he is bi-polar it shouldn't cause the manic episodes like some medications would and if he is on the aspergers scale somewhere it can only help. On low doses the side effects aren't horrible and are not to common. I know that risperdal is the go to antipsychotic now for kids but being a nurse I know and have seen the horrible permanent side effects of that drug and will never agree to give it him. [/QUOTE]
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