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medications to blame for manic & obsessive behavior?
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<blockquote data-quote="smallworld" data-source="post: 53825" data-attributes="member: 2423"><p>It's good that you got your difficult child in to see the psychiatrist.</p><p></p><p>As others have mentioned, ANY medication can have strange side effects in our kiddos. Furthermore, some medications will help one symptom, but will cause a side effect that is not acceptable to live with. For example, Paxil helped easy child/difficult child 2's anxiety and depression, but it caused strange episodes of disinhibition and agression. We feared she was becoming psychotic. So we discontinued Paxil and had to find other medications to address anxiety and depression.</p><p></p><p>One other thought I want to share with you. When you do a medication wash, it can take many weeks for the child to settle down and get a true baseline read on behavior. The behavior can look a lot worse and you automatically assume the child needs to be on the previous medications. But that is not always the case. When we took my son off Concerta, he was talkative and hyper for about three weeks. Then his behavior settled down, and he become his old inattentive self (he has ADHD-primarily inattentive, not combined).</p><p></p><p>Good luck with your appointments.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smallworld, post: 53825, member: 2423"] It's good that you got your difficult child in to see the psychiatrist. As others have mentioned, ANY medication can have strange side effects in our kiddos. Furthermore, some medications will help one symptom, but will cause a side effect that is not acceptable to live with. For example, Paxil helped easy child/difficult child 2's anxiety and depression, but it caused strange episodes of disinhibition and agression. We feared she was becoming psychotic. So we discontinued Paxil and had to find other medications to address anxiety and depression. One other thought I want to share with you. When you do a medication wash, it can take many weeks for the child to settle down and get a true baseline read on behavior. The behavior can look a lot worse and you automatically assume the child needs to be on the previous medications. But that is not always the case. When we took my son off Concerta, he was talkative and hyper for about three weeks. Then his behavior settled down, and he become his old inattentive self (he has ADHD-primarily inattentive, not combined). Good luck with your appointments. [/QUOTE]
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