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Could ADHD medications have been masking other symptoms?
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<blockquote data-quote="buddy" data-source="post: 494388" data-attributes="member: 12886"><p>i also agree with TeDo. My son had been on Prozac for several years. It never really did what we thought it should do...especially in the end the "anxiety symptoms" that they were medicating were seizures. but he still had traditional anxiety and it never helped that. BUT as his aggression has increased, mostly due to a medication reaction to a NEW medication it did beg the question of if we should stay on it...so many medications. etc.... so we just got off of it and since he was down to the smallest little dose left he has not had any actual serious aggression (he was jumping on me kicking, hitting HARD etc... on the other medication) but none of it has happened for a week.... even when he was really mad...that fist clenching, red faced, yelling mad...but still hasn't crossed the line. I know he WILL but that is even different than the daily multiple blow up stuff he was doing on the Prozac. </p><p></p><p>he too has Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and all of the ODD and ADHD symptoms fall under that and his brain injury. i can't think of ONE thing that is really ODD and isn't typical of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). His counselor said today when he had little candy papers and game pieces all over her table, she asked him to pick it up as he walked away and he said no but turned around and did it happily. Really sounds ODD at times but tends to cooperate. just has these automatic rote responses. She said he does not seem ODD to her and she has lots of kids who only are ODD that she sees.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="buddy, post: 494388, member: 12886"] i also agree with TeDo. My son had been on Prozac for several years. It never really did what we thought it should do...especially in the end the "anxiety symptoms" that they were medicating were seizures. but he still had traditional anxiety and it never helped that. BUT as his aggression has increased, mostly due to a medication reaction to a NEW medication it did beg the question of if we should stay on it...so many medications. etc.... so we just got off of it and since he was down to the smallest little dose left he has not had any actual serious aggression (he was jumping on me kicking, hitting HARD etc... on the other medication) but none of it has happened for a week.... even when he was really mad...that fist clenching, red faced, yelling mad...but still hasn't crossed the line. I know he WILL but that is even different than the daily multiple blow up stuff he was doing on the Prozac. he too has Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and all of the ODD and ADHD symptoms fall under that and his brain injury. i can't think of ONE thing that is really ODD and isn't typical of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). His counselor said today when he had little candy papers and game pieces all over her table, she asked him to pick it up as he walked away and he said no but turned around and did it happily. Really sounds ODD at times but tends to cooperate. just has these automatic rote responses. She said he does not seem ODD to her and she has lots of kids who only are ODD that she sees. [/QUOTE]
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