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Medication Crossroad? Any thoughts/experience?
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<blockquote data-quote="gcvmom" data-source="post: 221694" data-attributes="member: 3444"><p>Although my difficult child is older (12), he stopped responding to stimulants as well a few years ago. At first they acted like water. Then they made him hypomanic and jittery.</p><p> </p><p>He still needs the stimulant though (or so we think) and now only takes about 5mg Daytrana. He now takes a total of 1100mg Seroquel XR per day -- 700mg at night and 400mg at lunchtime. It took about four months to titrate up to this level. The psychiatrist says this is a fairly high dose, but he says he has to go more by response than by a number. It actually has helped his ADHD symptoms, and it also helps with his anger and frustration. He's not COMPLETLY stable yet, but he's in a much better place than he was last Spring.</p><p> </p><p>The search for the right medications is a very long and frustrating road for these kids. You really cannot predict easily how they're going to respond to one medication or another until you give it a trial run.</p><p> </p><p>As parents, we have to weigh what we know intuitively about our kids with the advice and experience our psychiatrists to make our decisions, and even then it feels like a leap of faith!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gcvmom, post: 221694, member: 3444"] Although my difficult child is older (12), he stopped responding to stimulants as well a few years ago. At first they acted like water. Then they made him hypomanic and jittery. He still needs the stimulant though (or so we think) and now only takes about 5mg Daytrana. He now takes a total of 1100mg Seroquel XR per day -- 700mg at night and 400mg at lunchtime. It took about four months to titrate up to this level. The psychiatrist says this is a fairly high dose, but he says he has to go more by response than by a number. It actually has helped his ADHD symptoms, and it also helps with his anger and frustration. He's not COMPLETLY stable yet, but he's in a much better place than he was last Spring. The search for the right medications is a very long and frustrating road for these kids. You really cannot predict easily how they're going to respond to one medication or another until you give it a trial run. As parents, we have to weigh what we know intuitively about our kids with the advice and experience our psychiatrists to make our decisions, and even then it feels like a leap of faith! [/QUOTE]
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