Common medications/how many have your tried

[EastCoastChris]

This is a list of the most common medications I see on the site. How many have you tried for your difficult child or yourself?


Antidepressants
Trazadone
Prozac- SSRI
Paxil- SSRI
Celexa- SSRI
Zoloft-SSRI
Lexapro- SSRI
Luvox-SSRI
Wellbutrin-antidepressent
Elavil- Tricyclic anti depressant
Impramine-Tricyclic anti depressant

Antipsychotics
Risperidal
Geodon
Zyprexa
Seroqual

Sedation/Phenothyzides
Mellaril
Thorazine
Trilafon

Mood Stabilizers
Lithium
Depakote
antiseizure medication used for mood stabilization
Tegretol(carbatrol)
Trileptal
Neurontin

Stimulants
Ritalin
Adderall
Dexadrine
Concerta
Cylert

Anti anxiety
Clonodine class of drugs called benzodiazepines
Effexor
Buspar

 

all most all of them poor kid is like a junkie or a lab rat :frown: some worked some diden't

 

[EastCoastChris]

My difficult child has tried

3 antidepressants on the list(1-nortryptylline isn't on the list)

2 of the 4 antipsychotics(a godsend)

1 of the 2 sedatives

4 of the 5 mood stabilizers

2 of the stimulants.

I can have a garage sale with the excess medications that are over 4yrs old. They fill a small basket.


Anyone else?

 

difficult child has tried:

Antidepressants - 4
Antipsychotics - 2
Mood stabalizers/antiseizure - 2
(depakote was given to him once for each)
Stimulants - 3
Antianxiety - 1

Plus other medications not listed.

Barbi

 

[EastCoastChris]

Barbi, which other medications(if you don't mind)

 

[momto2]

I'll have to do a signature first and then go back and count, LOL.

You forgot the tranquilizers, Fran. Nothing like a little Thorazine and Mellaril.

OK, from memory:

AD's - 3 from list
AP's - 3 from list plus Trilafon
MS's - 3 from list
Stims - 2 from list
AA's - 1 from list plus Luvox

Don't remember what Cylert was, but he was on it for a very short time.

And a partidge in a pear tree.

 

[EastCoastChris]

Thanks slsh! I did forget those two( we used those at the peak of the nightmare) I must have shut them out of my brain. I will go add them.

 

Fran,

difficult child has been on one medication or another since he was four when we started with the ritalin. Some medications he was only on for a day or two, others (like the Tegretol) have been for years.

Some were... the nortryptylline that you mentioned Fran. Also, Topomax...I would have to go look into his files to get the others.

Barbi

 

[tornasunder]

Risperdal
Zyprexa
Tegretol
Ritalin
Dexadrine
Effexor

and a few others at the beginning ... have to look at the file ... but those are the ones I have tried/am using currently.

That is for Chrissie. I have used many of the others for other children. I also have a medecine box that would fetch a tidy sum on the street!!!!!

Addie

 

[EastCoastChris]

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[opnbl]

Here is what we have tried:

difficult child:
Risperdal
Depakote
Ritalin
Adderall
Dexadrine
Concerta
Clonodine

Imiprimine - Antidepressant(not on your list)

Me personally:
Buspar
Serzone (Not on your list)
Zoloft

She

 

[The_Arc]

Anti-depressants (9)
Anti-psychoics (3)-Geodon was new
Sedatives (1)- I think maybe 2
Mood Stabs. (4)
Stimulants (5)
Anti-Anxiety (4)..Add valium (5)

I know I'm missing some, will have to look in our records, and there was not a mention of Encopresis/Enuresis medications. If you add those I have another list. Mirlax seems to be the most helpful for Encopresis.

difficult child = 48 medications or combos thereof. Lab rat indeed! I think I must go take a Pez!

 

Adderall
Adderall XR
Ritalin
buspar
zoloft

 

[ahall]

Ritalin

Zoloft was tried - didn't work

Currently:
Prozac
Wellbutrin

Risperdal briefly tried - no change noticed, so they took him off

- Deb

 

Okay, all of the medication we have used:
Celexa
Zoloft
Prozac
Paxil
Wellbutrin
Elavil
Nortripiline
Imprimine
Adderal
Adderall xr
Ritilin
Concerta
Dexedrine
Dexedrine xr
Methandate
Risperdal
Guaficne - same family as colondine
Trileptal
Serequil

I think that about covers it.
Oh, wait, doctor put me on adaivant friday. I looked it up, it is the same class as volume.

 

lets see.....he has tried/been on 2 antidepressants,Fran,is imipramine a antipsycotic? if sothen he has been on 3 antipsycotics,is now on a mood stabilizer and stimulant tried only 2 different ones there. as for me,the only thing i was ever on was Prozac,no wait i was also on celexa.....

 

[Marci Lyn]

Me:
Antidepressants
Prozac- (currently)
Celexa- (for about 3 years)
Zoloft- (for about 6 years)
Wellbutrin-(with Celexa and zoloft, for a short time)
Plus Klonopin (for 3 years)
Amytriptiline (one of my first, after a head injury)
I think thats it...
difficult child= Depakote, thats it so far

 

[anotherday]

medications my difficult child has tried:

Adderall
Dexedrine

Clonidine

Zoloft
Effexor
Paxil
Buspar

Risperdal

Trileptal
Lithobid
Eskalith
Depakote

12 in all, in more combinations than I can count.

Thank goodness for medications! I don't think my difficult child could live in my house without them.

Elise

 

[EastCoastChris]

Impramine is tricyclic antidepressant. I'll add it to the list.

 

[alexisjoanv]

difficult child-
Anti-depressants, all SSRI's for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)-type stuff

Zoloft - worked but couldn't deal with impulsive side effects
Paxil - didn't work and also caused impulsivity
Lexapro - works well - no meltdowns - but has increased his hyperactivity. He's taking it now, along with Ritalin

Stimulants -
Concerta - didn't work
Ritalin - works very well, he's taking it now

Me -

Zoloft off and on for 4 years, stopped because of tics
Lexapro - on it for a few months now, works wonders

husband -

Prozac, Paxil, Ritalin, Dexadrine - all at different times - I think they all helped except paxil, he thinks none of them helped.