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<blockquote data-quote="IT1967" data-source="post: 582783" data-attributes="member: 15615"><p>My difficult child 2 had a terrible reaction to Zoloft and it caused something to snap in him. He has always had ODD, but it just got WAY worse since we tried that medication. This horrible reaction caused the psychiatrist to Rx Risperdal, which I detest, but which has helped my difficult child 1 a lot. </p><p></p><p>My problem is, I don't think the Risperdal is working so well for difficult child 2. We have increased it to .5 3xday, the dose difficult child 1 is on, and I'm not seeing a ton of improvement. Every day after school for most of the past week (we're 2 or 3 weeks into the Risperdal), he is having BIG meltdowns - mainly directed at difficult child 2, but defiant toward me as well. Usually after that, things settle a bit. I probably know the answer to my own question here, but ideally difficult child 1 would take the medicine first thing in the AM, at lunch, and at bedtime. Neither of my kids will agree to take the medication during school hours, so I give it to them immediately after school - 3PM. That timing works perfectly fine for difficult child 1. Maybe it's too long between the AM and after school dose for difficult child 2? He is incredibly medication sensitive. We tried 3 or 4 ADHD medications before we got the right thing for that. I have a call in to the psychiatrist, so I'll see what he says. My guess is he'll tell me it's too long between the doses. I just don't know.....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IT1967, post: 582783, member: 15615"] My difficult child 2 had a terrible reaction to Zoloft and it caused something to snap in him. He has always had ODD, but it just got WAY worse since we tried that medication. This horrible reaction caused the psychiatrist to Rx Risperdal, which I detest, but which has helped my difficult child 1 a lot. My problem is, I don't think the Risperdal is working so well for difficult child 2. We have increased it to .5 3xday, the dose difficult child 1 is on, and I'm not seeing a ton of improvement. Every day after school for most of the past week (we're 2 or 3 weeks into the Risperdal), he is having BIG meltdowns - mainly directed at difficult child 2, but defiant toward me as well. Usually after that, things settle a bit. I probably know the answer to my own question here, but ideally difficult child 1 would take the medicine first thing in the AM, at lunch, and at bedtime. Neither of my kids will agree to take the medication during school hours, so I give it to them immediately after school - 3PM. That timing works perfectly fine for difficult child 1. Maybe it's too long between the AM and after school dose for difficult child 2? He is incredibly medication sensitive. We tried 3 or 4 ADHD medications before we got the right thing for that. I have a call in to the psychiatrist, so I'll see what he says. My guess is he'll tell me it's too long between the doses. I just don't know..... [/QUOTE]
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