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<blockquote data-quote="mstang67chic" data-source="post: 385980" data-attributes="member: 2459"><p>I think we're all pretty much in agreement on medications around here. If medication is warranted, needed and beneficial....we're for it. Carefully monitored of course, especially in the wee ones. I suppose, for me anyway, it's like anything else. Sometimes chronic conditions can be treated in other ways, sometimes you need medications. Some people have found that special diets and vitamins work and others have had great results from various medications. It really just depends on the child, the diagnosis, the history, the doctor and of course the pros and cons. </p><p></p><p>Marg talked about the "wow" factory.....I've seen that myself. My husband and I adopted our son out of foster care....got him when he was 9, adopted when he was 10. When he came to us, he was already on medications. He was our first and so far, only child so we went with the flow so to speak to give us time to educate ourselves and talk to the doctor(s) involved. After a year though, he had to be hospitalized at a psychiatric hospital and while he was there he medications were changed in a major way. Of the three he was on at the time, only one stayed (his ADHD medication) and two others were added. (2/3 of his medications were totally wrong for his diagnosis) The doctor told me that I probably wouldn't see a difference until a month or two down the road. Instead I saw a HUGE difference within 2 weeks. As a first time parent pretty much tossed blindly into the world of difficult child's (long story but state case workers didn't feel the need to tell us everything) we pretty much learned on the fly. We did, over the years, do tweaks here and there and as difficult child got older, we would attempt to lessen his medications and with the ADHD medication, try to eliminate it. I learned very quickly though at the time.....take away his ADHD medication and he turned into what really resembled Tigger on crack. LOL O...M....G.....that child almost literally bounced off the walls!!! We were fortunate in that we had a really great psychiatrist who would discuss things with us and a lot of times, leave the decision(s) up to us. Now, difficult child is 20 and no longer takes anything for his ADHD. He still has it of course but I think between his other medications and just physically maturing, he's covered enough. Granted, he's out of school and doesn't work so maybe we don't notice the need so much if it's still there but he is tons better NOW without it than even 5 years ago. </p><p></p><p>So yeah...um....sorry. Kind of wrote more than I planned! LOL Basically, find a doctor IN THE RIGHT FIELD that you trust, discuss, research and go with your gut. If you find that something else works....great. But don't be leery of medications just because we parents "medicate our kids into submission". You would give you child insulin if he/she was diabetic and needed it wouldn't you? THis is really no different although it can be a teeeeensy bit more complicated.</p><p></p><p>Oh and welcome to the board!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mstang67chic, post: 385980, member: 2459"] I think we're all pretty much in agreement on medications around here. If medication is warranted, needed and beneficial....we're for it. Carefully monitored of course, especially in the wee ones. I suppose, for me anyway, it's like anything else. Sometimes chronic conditions can be treated in other ways, sometimes you need medications. Some people have found that special diets and vitamins work and others have had great results from various medications. It really just depends on the child, the diagnosis, the history, the doctor and of course the pros and cons. Marg talked about the "wow" factory.....I've seen that myself. My husband and I adopted our son out of foster care....got him when he was 9, adopted when he was 10. When he came to us, he was already on medications. He was our first and so far, only child so we went with the flow so to speak to give us time to educate ourselves and talk to the doctor(s) involved. After a year though, he had to be hospitalized at a psychiatric hospital and while he was there he medications were changed in a major way. Of the three he was on at the time, only one stayed (his ADHD medication) and two others were added. (2/3 of his medications were totally wrong for his diagnosis) The doctor told me that I probably wouldn't see a difference until a month or two down the road. Instead I saw a HUGE difference within 2 weeks. As a first time parent pretty much tossed blindly into the world of difficult child's (long story but state case workers didn't feel the need to tell us everything) we pretty much learned on the fly. We did, over the years, do tweaks here and there and as difficult child got older, we would attempt to lessen his medications and with the ADHD medication, try to eliminate it. I learned very quickly though at the time.....take away his ADHD medication and he turned into what really resembled Tigger on crack. LOL O...M....G.....that child almost literally bounced off the walls!!! We were fortunate in that we had a really great psychiatrist who would discuss things with us and a lot of times, leave the decision(s) up to us. Now, difficult child is 20 and no longer takes anything for his ADHD. He still has it of course but I think between his other medications and just physically maturing, he's covered enough. Granted, he's out of school and doesn't work so maybe we don't notice the need so much if it's still there but he is tons better NOW without it than even 5 years ago. So yeah...um....sorry. Kind of wrote more than I planned! LOL Basically, find a doctor IN THE RIGHT FIELD that you trust, discuss, research and go with your gut. If you find that something else works....great. But don't be leery of medications just because we parents "medicate our kids into submission". You would give you child insulin if he/she was diabetic and needed it wouldn't you? THis is really no different although it can be a teeeeensy bit more complicated. Oh and welcome to the board! [/QUOTE]
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