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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 620586" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>No experience with Intuiv, but lots of experience with medication. There is no way you can tell in a few days if the child is going to be different nor is it likely that there will be any kind of true miracle change. Our difficult children tend to cycle...they have their good days that they string together, giving us hope, then they have a string of bad days, which breaks our heart because we thought things were normalizing. I am certainly not sure, but often stimulants make autistic children MORE violent. I'd wait and see if the calmer behavior lasts. My son could not take any of the stimulants without getting worse, but all kids are different.</p><p></p><p>As for the Zoloft, I've taken every SSRI in existence practically. They start working after 6-8 weeks. Any affects before that are just the initial "jump", but you can't know how they will affect your child until the drug is in the system for a long time. SSRIs do not leave the system. The only thing I notice about my SSRI is that I have to take it at night because I still get tired an hour or so after I take it. Other than that, it sustains me equally all day long.</p><p></p><p>Autistic kids do well with interventions and medication should be the secondary treatment. Is your son getting interventions in school and the community? Also, no drug will make somebody who is autistic no longer be or act autistic. The interventions, in my son's case, were what stopped him from being violent. He learned other coping skills. He is actually better off of medications. Some of the medications were making him violent so we stopped them. He is twenty now and doing great, but he was really difficult when he was young.</p><p></p><p>Wishing you luck!!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 620586, member: 1550"] No experience with Intuiv, but lots of experience with medication. There is no way you can tell in a few days if the child is going to be different nor is it likely that there will be any kind of true miracle change. Our difficult children tend to cycle...they have their good days that they string together, giving us hope, then they have a string of bad days, which breaks our heart because we thought things were normalizing. I am certainly not sure, but often stimulants make autistic children MORE violent. I'd wait and see if the calmer behavior lasts. My son could not take any of the stimulants without getting worse, but all kids are different. As for the Zoloft, I've taken every SSRI in existence practically. They start working after 6-8 weeks. Any affects before that are just the initial "jump", but you can't know how they will affect your child until the drug is in the system for a long time. SSRIs do not leave the system. The only thing I notice about my SSRI is that I have to take it at night because I still get tired an hour or so after I take it. Other than that, it sustains me equally all day long. Autistic kids do well with interventions and medication should be the secondary treatment. Is your son getting interventions in school and the community? Also, no drug will make somebody who is autistic no longer be or act autistic. The interventions, in my son's case, were what stopped him from being violent. He learned other coping skills. He is actually better off of medications. Some of the medications were making him violent so we stopped them. He is twenty now and doing great, but he was really difficult when he was young. Wishing you luck!!! [/QUOTE]
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