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More medication tweaking... what's your take on this?
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<blockquote data-quote="Sara PA" data-source="post: 157826" data-attributes="member: 1498"><p>Wow. Frankly I'd be looking at the intial waking and shaking as a seizure disorder. (Myoclonic jerks are a symptom of seizures which occur just at the point of waking: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myoclonus" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myoclonus</a> ) And the chronic shaking as a response to the medications, especially the antipsychotics. The antipsychotics can not only cause that, they can lower the seizure threshold. And ticcing can be caused or made worse by stims. </p><p></p><p>If the antipsychotic <em>did</em> cause the shaking, it is entirely possible that the condition is permenant.</p><p></p><p>As for not wanting to play with toys that require fine motor skills and trouble with doing school work (and the anxiety related to it), I would have his eyes checked for convergence. Are both eyes able to focus on the same point? </p><p></p><p>Your doctors should be paying attention to the fact that your son did his best while on two anticonvulsants. </p><p></p><p>Knowing what I know now, if your son was my son I would do exactly the same thing as I did with my son -- I'd get him off everything but the Lamictal and keep it like that for enough months for his brain to heal from taking all those other drugs. But that's me and most people will tell you I see seizure disorders where no one else does.</p><p></p><p>That said, I do have to point out that it doesn't sound like all those other medications are doing him a whole lot of good. Gotta ask the old question: Is he doing better now or was he better before he started taking medications? (And better at school isn't the question....better all around is.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sara PA, post: 157826, member: 1498"] Wow. Frankly I'd be looking at the intial waking and shaking as a seizure disorder. (Myoclonic jerks are a symptom of seizures which occur just at the point of waking: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myoclonus[/url] ) And the chronic shaking as a response to the medications, especially the antipsychotics. The antipsychotics can not only cause that, they can lower the seizure threshold. And ticcing can be caused or made worse by stims. If the antipsychotic [I]did[/I] cause the shaking, it is entirely possible that the condition is permenant. As for not wanting to play with toys that require fine motor skills and trouble with doing school work (and the anxiety related to it), I would have his eyes checked for convergence. Are both eyes able to focus on the same point? Your doctors should be paying attention to the fact that your son did his best while on two anticonvulsants. Knowing what I know now, if your son was my son I would do exactly the same thing as I did with my son -- I'd get him off everything but the Lamictal and keep it like that for enough months for his brain to heal from taking all those other drugs. But that's me and most people will tell you I see seizure disorders where no one else does. That said, I do have to point out that it doesn't sound like all those other medications are doing him a whole lot of good. Gotta ask the old question: Is he doing better now or was he better before he started taking medications? (And better at school isn't the question....better all around is.) [/QUOTE]
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