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<blockquote data-quote="Josie" data-source="post: 57379" data-attributes="member: 1792"><p>My daughter was diagnosis'ed with ODD and depression when she was 8. She was put on Lexapro, another a/d. While it was not approved for children, her psychiatrist said that because it had worked so well for me, it had a pretty good chance of working for her. </p><p></p><p>We noticed an improvement in her behaviour within the first few days. Gradually that wore off and we had to keep increasing the dose. After about 1 1/2 years, she finally got to the maximum dose and we were having to consider adding something else. </p><p></p><p>At that time, purely by coincidence, we discovered she had some food intolerances which were apparently causing her ODD. Instead of adding a medication, she has been able to reduce her a/d back to half of the original dose. So while it ultimately wasn't the answer for her, she was on it with no side effects and is weaning off from it, very slowly, with no real problems.</p><p></p><p>My younger daughter was on Prozac at one point for anxiety but it made her hyper. She tried Lexapro but it hurt her stomach. She ended up on Elavil, an older a/d, for migraine prevention and that has helped her anxiety so we stopped trying the SSRI's for her.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Josie, post: 57379, member: 1792"] My daughter was diagnosis'ed with ODD and depression when she was 8. She was put on Lexapro, another a/d. While it was not approved for children, her psychiatrist said that because it had worked so well for me, it had a pretty good chance of working for her. We noticed an improvement in her behaviour within the first few days. Gradually that wore off and we had to keep increasing the dose. After about 1 1/2 years, she finally got to the maximum dose and we were having to consider adding something else. At that time, purely by coincidence, we discovered she had some food intolerances which were apparently causing her ODD. Instead of adding a medication, she has been able to reduce her a/d back to half of the original dose. So while it ultimately wasn't the answer for her, she was on it with no side effects and is weaning off from it, very slowly, with no real problems. My younger daughter was on Prozac at one point for anxiety but it made her hyper. She tried Lexapro but it hurt her stomach. She ended up on Elavil, an older a/d, for migraine prevention and that has helped her anxiety so we stopped trying the SSRI's for her. [/QUOTE]
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