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Aripiprazole, anybody else's kid taking this?
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<blockquote data-quote="HMBgal" data-source="post: 728630" data-attributes="member: 13260"><p>My grandson has been on it for a couple years. Big weight gain and constant hunger at first, but while he eats a lot now, he's not insatiable and he's not overweight. But since he was coming off stimulants (which didn't work, but we kept trying different ones), he hadn't gained weight in two years. So we figured the weight gain and height gain was something he needed to do. It has worked okay. The potential side effects are scary (if you're one of those Googler types, which I am) but the only weird thing we saw was some excess saliva and he would drool occasionally when he was lost in thought. I know they wanted him to have blood work done, which we never did because it would have taken six of us to haul him in there and hold him down and listen to him shriek and be convinced he was dying. I mean, his anxiety is really like that. They started him off at 2.5, moved him to five, then ten. </p><p></p><p>I think it helped. I know that when we tried to take him off of it in November, he had to go back on it. </p><p></p><p>He doesn't have any of the bad side effects. Certainly not the ones he had while he was taking stimulants for his ADHD. Because of his anxiety of whatever the other thing is that we still have nailed down, stimulants didn't help. The aripiprazole hasn't helped his focus in school (he's 11) and certainly hasn't solved all his problems. Every kid is different. Good luck and I hope helps your boy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HMBgal, post: 728630, member: 13260"] My grandson has been on it for a couple years. Big weight gain and constant hunger at first, but while he eats a lot now, he's not insatiable and he's not overweight. But since he was coming off stimulants (which didn't work, but we kept trying different ones), he hadn't gained weight in two years. So we figured the weight gain and height gain was something he needed to do. It has worked okay. The potential side effects are scary (if you're one of those Googler types, which I am) but the only weird thing we saw was some excess saliva and he would drool occasionally when he was lost in thought. I know they wanted him to have blood work done, which we never did because it would have taken six of us to haul him in there and hold him down and listen to him shriek and be convinced he was dying. I mean, his anxiety is really like that. They started him off at 2.5, moved him to five, then ten. I think it helped. I know that when we tried to take him off of it in November, he had to go back on it. He doesn't have any of the bad side effects. Certainly not the ones he had while he was taking stimulants for his ADHD. Because of his anxiety of whatever the other thing is that we still have nailed down, stimulants didn't help. The aripiprazole hasn't helped his focus in school (he's 11) and certainly hasn't solved all his problems. Every kid is different. Good luck and I hope helps your boy. [/QUOTE]
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