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<blockquote data-quote="Sara PA" data-source="post: 12736" data-attributes="member: 1498"><p>[ QUOTE ]</p><p> Is it important to go off of all medication's occasionally? </p><p></p><p>[/ QUOTE ]</p><p>No. But too often there are medications being prescribed to treat the unrecognized adverse reactions to other medications, one on top of the other. Medications are changed too quickly to get a clear picture of both the effectiveness or the adverse reactions. Sometimes the option should be to do a complete medication wash (preferable for a few months) and see what behaviors are really there and what are adverse reactions to medications. <em>ALL</em> these medications can cause psychiatric adverse reactions. If a child is worse or no better <em>over all</em> on 2, 3, 4 medications than he was was on no medications, you need to question if the medications are really helping or not. But, no, it's not necessary to remove medications just for the sake of removing medications. If it ain't broken, don't fix it. But if it ain't working, don't stick with it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sara PA, post: 12736, member: 1498"] [ QUOTE ] Is it important to go off of all medication's occasionally? [/ QUOTE ] No. But too often there are medications being prescribed to treat the unrecognized adverse reactions to other medications, one on top of the other. Medications are changed too quickly to get a clear picture of both the effectiveness or the adverse reactions. Sometimes the option should be to do a complete medication wash (preferable for a few months) and see what behaviors are really there and what are adverse reactions to medications. [i]ALL[/i] these medications can cause psychiatric adverse reactions. If a child is worse or no better [i]over all[/i] on 2, 3, 4 medications than he was was on no medications, you need to question if the medications are really helping or not. But, no, it's not necessary to remove medications just for the sake of removing medications. If it ain't broken, don't fix it. But if it ain't working, don't stick with it. [/QUOTE]
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