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<blockquote data-quote="Ann Yoxtheimer" data-source="post: 439230" data-attributes="member: 12205"><p>Thank you everyone for your comments and suggestions. Everyone here is so kind! To answer some of your questions, he does have an IEP. In fact, his school day had to be entirely restructured for him. He has a "shadow" that follows him, and he only goes to school (when he went to school--it's June now) for about 2 and a half hours a day. He spent 6 weeks last year in an intensive outpatient therapy center/school, until his insurance wouldn't pay for it anymore. Now he has TEFRA Medicaid because he is considered disabled. </p><p></p><p>To answer the question as to what he is like without medications, we took him off of all of his medications last year (because they weren't working), and we had to hospitalize him for psychosis. He even tried to destroy the furniture in the children's ER because he thought the chairs were threatening him. He attacked the nurses in the ER so much that they finally called in security to restrain him. It took 3 security guards and five nurses to hold him down so that they could sedate him. That was bar none the worst night of my life. He stayed in the hospital for a week. He would have been there longer, but he was so unhappy there at night without us.</p><p></p><p>I was speaking to the developmental pediatrics department at the children's hospital today, and the nurse I spoke with was hesitant to say autistic spectrum for him, and this is why: when he first started his medications in January 2009, a switch was flipped, and he became a perfect angel for 12 months. After 12 months, he gradually deteriorated until he had to be hospitalized. Her feeling was that medicine could not have cured him if he was autistic, which is true. Also, the rocking and repeating everything did not start until a few months ago.</p><p></p><p>Another question was does he come from a fractured home or does mental illness run in the family? Yes on both counts. His father is bipolar, and was EXTREMELY mentally ill while we were together. He had a doctor that was prescribing him massive doses of amphetamines for a "supposed" case of narcolepsy. These made him manic, and I finally ran in fear for my life. He then kidnapped my son and ran with him to another state. It took a court order to have him returned. The ex is more stable now, but still not all there. I am remarried now. There is also bipolar illness on my side of the family, so I know Xander is bipolar, but I don't think that is his only problem. I appreciate the suggestion about the neuropsychologist. I will look into that.</p><p></p><p>Me: Anxiety and mood disorder</p><p>Son: Mood disorder, anxiety, ADHD, ODD, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD),</p><p>Other son: ADHD</p><p>Normal Husband:</p><p>Stepson: Normal</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ann Yoxtheimer, post: 439230, member: 12205"] Thank you everyone for your comments and suggestions. Everyone here is so kind! To answer some of your questions, he does have an IEP. In fact, his school day had to be entirely restructured for him. He has a "shadow" that follows him, and he only goes to school (when he went to school--it's June now) for about 2 and a half hours a day. He spent 6 weeks last year in an intensive outpatient therapy center/school, until his insurance wouldn't pay for it anymore. Now he has TEFRA Medicaid because he is considered disabled. To answer the question as to what he is like without medications, we took him off of all of his medications last year (because they weren't working), and we had to hospitalize him for psychosis. He even tried to destroy the furniture in the children's ER because he thought the chairs were threatening him. He attacked the nurses in the ER so much that they finally called in security to restrain him. It took 3 security guards and five nurses to hold him down so that they could sedate him. That was bar none the worst night of my life. He stayed in the hospital for a week. He would have been there longer, but he was so unhappy there at night without us. I was speaking to the developmental pediatrics department at the children's hospital today, and the nurse I spoke with was hesitant to say autistic spectrum for him, and this is why: when he first started his medications in January 2009, a switch was flipped, and he became a perfect angel for 12 months. After 12 months, he gradually deteriorated until he had to be hospitalized. Her feeling was that medicine could not have cured him if he was autistic, which is true. Also, the rocking and repeating everything did not start until a few months ago. Another question was does he come from a fractured home or does mental illness run in the family? Yes on both counts. His father is bipolar, and was EXTREMELY mentally ill while we were together. He had a doctor that was prescribing him massive doses of amphetamines for a "supposed" case of narcolepsy. These made him manic, and I finally ran in fear for my life. He then kidnapped my son and ran with him to another state. It took a court order to have him returned. The ex is more stable now, but still not all there. I am remarried now. There is also bipolar illness on my side of the family, so I know Xander is bipolar, but I don't think that is his only problem. I appreciate the suggestion about the neuropsychologist. I will look into that. Me: Anxiety and mood disorder Son: Mood disorder, anxiety, ADHD, ODD, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Other son: ADHD Normal Husband: Stepson: Normal [/QUOTE]
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