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<blockquote data-quote="Janna" data-source="post: 106198" data-attributes="member: 2737"><p>Thanks for the suggestions. I am going to look into the few mentioned and talk to the psychiatrist. I do know there can be issues with anxiety medications. However, through the previous 8 years, things that SHOULD have done one thing for my son (i.e. the antipsychotics) like calm him down, made him hallucinate and gave him incredibly awful side effects (drooling, slurring of words, barking like a dog, encopresis). </p><p></p><p>My thought is, if none of the other stuff worked....maybe. I'm not even 50% sure I'm comfortable going this route. It's just a thought.</p><p></p><p>I wish we could explore the AP's again, SW, but it's not worth it to me. He had absolutely no benefit from Seroquel, Risperdal was horrible, Abilify caused too many side effects, and we saw nothing from Zyprexa. Geodon made him coooookoooooo.</p><p></p><p>I dunno. I'm leaning 50% toward trying something else, and leaning 50% toward telling the Residential Treatment Facility (RTF) to spend the rest of the months diving into more intensive therapy with him so he can stay medication free.</p><p></p><p>Decisions....decisions.</p><p></p><p>I'm 98% sick of medications. I still have that glimmer of hope, somewhere....but man, it's really dying.</p><p></p><p>He did recently try Wellbutrin. He seemed to ME to be much happier. But, it didnt do anything for his ADHD symptoms, so the psychiatrist discontinued it. I don't like him. He's more concerned with trying to treat the ADHD stuff, and he's just going to have to remove that from his mindset. Permanently.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Thanks everyone.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Janna, post: 106198, member: 2737"] Thanks for the suggestions. I am going to look into the few mentioned and talk to the psychiatrist. I do know there can be issues with anxiety medications. However, through the previous 8 years, things that SHOULD have done one thing for my son (i.e. the antipsychotics) like calm him down, made him hallucinate and gave him incredibly awful side effects (drooling, slurring of words, barking like a dog, encopresis). My thought is, if none of the other stuff worked....maybe. I'm not even 50% sure I'm comfortable going this route. It's just a thought. I wish we could explore the AP's again, SW, but it's not worth it to me. He had absolutely no benefit from Seroquel, Risperdal was horrible, Abilify caused too many side effects, and we saw nothing from Zyprexa. Geodon made him coooookoooooo. I dunno. I'm leaning 50% toward trying something else, and leaning 50% toward telling the Residential Treatment Facility (RTF) to spend the rest of the months diving into more intensive therapy with him so he can stay medication free. Decisions....decisions. I'm 98% sick of medications. I still have that glimmer of hope, somewhere....but man, it's really dying. He did recently try Wellbutrin. He seemed to ME to be much happier. But, it didnt do anything for his ADHD symptoms, so the psychiatrist discontinued it. I don't like him. He's more concerned with trying to treat the ADHD stuff, and he's just going to have to remove that from his mindset. Permanently. Thanks everyone. [/QUOTE]
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