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My son had an extreme reaction to Zoloft (an SSRI)
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<blockquote data-quote="smallworld" data-source="post: 423248" data-attributes="member: 2423"><p>At age 12, my son had a horrible manic reaction to Zoloft that lasted for WEEKS. even though he had only been taking 25 mg for three weeks. Although we discontinued Zoloft the very night he trashed our house and bruised my husband's ribs when he tried to restrain my son, we couldn't get my son to settle down on his own. It did take pharmaceutical intervention after the psychiatrist watched him for 6 weeks. </p><p></p><p>And no, just because a child has this sort of manic reaction to an SSRI doesn't mean he has bipolar disorder. What it does mean for my son is that he can't handle SSRIs (we, in fact, went on to trial a few more SSRIs with equally disasterous results). In my son's case, his diagnosis is mood disorder (now in remission) and mild Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD), but he does not meet full criteria for bipolar disorder.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smallworld, post: 423248, member: 2423"] At age 12, my son had a horrible manic reaction to Zoloft that lasted for WEEKS. even though he had only been taking 25 mg for three weeks. Although we discontinued Zoloft the very night he trashed our house and bruised my husband's ribs when he tried to restrain my son, we couldn't get my son to settle down on his own. It did take pharmaceutical intervention after the psychiatrist watched him for 6 weeks. And no, just because a child has this sort of manic reaction to an SSRI doesn't mean he has bipolar disorder. What it does mean for my son is that he can't handle SSRIs (we, in fact, went on to trial a few more SSRIs with equally disasterous results). In my son's case, his diagnosis is mood disorder (now in remission) and mild Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD), but he does not meet full criteria for bipolar disorder. [/QUOTE]
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