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<blockquote data-quote="isabel" data-source="post: 14449" data-attributes="member: 153"><p>JJJ, we had to get an ekg done on difficult child before the psychiatrist would put him on Geodon -- as Sara said, it can effect the heart. We were told that it can exagerate/make worse any existing heart condition. 1st ekg showed 1st degree AV blockage, a second was done to be sure. We then saw a cardiac pediatrictian who did the ekg and a sonogram himself -- showed nothing and the doctor said he would be fine on the Geodon. A month later, a routine ekg done by the Residential Treatment Center (RTC) showed the blockage again. They took him off the Geodon but he was kept on the Risperidal. The 5th ekg showed borderline 2nd degree blockage. They took him off the Risperidal and the 6th ekg -- done last week, indicated a normal ekg -- no blockage. The scary thing was that we were never told that Risperidal can also do this -- if it hadn't been for the Residential Treatment Center (RTC), we might not have known. I don't want to scare you or put you off the Geodon (or the Risperidal), because as I said, it was explained that it doesn't necessarily cause a heart problem, but can definitely make an existing problem worse. Hopefully, your difficult child won't have any problems.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="isabel, post: 14449, member: 153"] JJJ, we had to get an ekg done on difficult child before the psychiatrist would put him on Geodon -- as Sara said, it can effect the heart. We were told that it can exagerate/make worse any existing heart condition. 1st ekg showed 1st degree AV blockage, a second was done to be sure. We then saw a cardiac pediatrictian who did the ekg and a sonogram himself -- showed nothing and the doctor said he would be fine on the Geodon. A month later, a routine ekg done by the Residential Treatment Center (RTC) showed the blockage again. They took him off the Geodon but he was kept on the Risperidal. The 5th ekg showed borderline 2nd degree blockage. They took him off the Risperidal and the 6th ekg -- done last week, indicated a normal ekg -- no blockage. The scary thing was that we were never told that Risperidal can also do this -- if it hadn't been for the Residential Treatment Center (RTC), we might not have known. I don't want to scare you or put you off the Geodon (or the Risperidal), because as I said, it was explained that it doesn't necessarily cause a heart problem, but can definitely make an existing problem worse. Hopefully, your difficult child won't have any problems. [/QUOTE]
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