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Guanfacine for BiPolar (BP)/add?
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<blockquote data-quote="troubledheart" data-source="post: 310118" data-attributes="member: 7465"><p>The only thing I would worry about, is that as someone mentioned it is a blood pressure medication and you have to be careful how high the does goes. The Hospital put my difficult child on it and put it too high. It definately calmed him down, but it also could have killed him, after he came home our psychiatrist ordered an EKG because of the dosage and his heart rate was 45 sitting even lower at night (called bradycardia) and then if he got too over active he went into rapid heart beat and chest pains. we immediately took dosage down, but had to do it slowly and my difficult child spent 2 very upset weeks of doing hardly anything physically active. He is still on it, but is at .5 mg twice a day and it is working well!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="troubledheart, post: 310118, member: 7465"] The only thing I would worry about, is that as someone mentioned it is a blood pressure medication and you have to be careful how high the does goes. The Hospital put my difficult child on it and put it too high. It definately calmed him down, but it also could have killed him, after he came home our psychiatrist ordered an EKG because of the dosage and his heart rate was 45 sitting even lower at night (called bradycardia) and then if he got too over active he went into rapid heart beat and chest pains. we immediately took dosage down, but had to do it slowly and my difficult child spent 2 very upset weeks of doing hardly anything physically active. He is still on it, but is at .5 mg twice a day and it is working well! [/QUOTE]
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