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New Here, son prescribed Risperdal, can't bring myself to give it to him
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<blockquote data-quote="tiredmommy" data-source="post: 332267" data-attributes="member: 1722"><p>Welcome! Your list of attributes sounds eerily similar to my Duckie, except she's not good at sports (visual tracking problems). My daughter has had autism/Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) and mood disorder ruled out for now despite a strong family history. What she does have in common with your son is allergies and sensory issues. AND she was diagnosed with cough variant asthma just over a year ago. And the strangest thing has happened since we got her asthma and allergies well controlled: her ODD is *almost* gone. Not quite gone, but I know there is some learned behavior going on and it flares up when she's stressed or not sleeping well from being sick.</p><p> </p><p>FWIW, I'm under the understanding that a mood stabilizer is generally tried first and titrated up to a therapeutic level for bipolar before a stimulant is given. Stimulants, I believe, can fuel mania in unstable bipolar patients.</p><p> </p><p>I think I would like to see your son to have a multi-disciplinary evaluation at a Children's or university hospital, they may be best equipped to see if his behavior stems from medical rather than mental or neurological causes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tiredmommy, post: 332267, member: 1722"] Welcome! Your list of attributes sounds eerily similar to my Duckie, except she's not good at sports (visual tracking problems). My daughter has had autism/Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) and mood disorder ruled out for now despite a strong family history. What she does have in common with your son is allergies and sensory issues. AND she was diagnosed with cough variant asthma just over a year ago. And the strangest thing has happened since we got her asthma and allergies well controlled: her ODD is *almost* gone. Not quite gone, but I know there is some learned behavior going on and it flares up when she's stressed or not sleeping well from being sick. FWIW, I'm under the understanding that a mood stabilizer is generally tried first and titrated up to a therapeutic level for bipolar before a stimulant is given. Stimulants, I believe, can fuel mania in unstable bipolar patients. I think I would like to see your son to have a multi-disciplinary evaluation at a Children's or university hospital, they may be best equipped to see if his behavior stems from medical rather than mental or neurological causes. [/QUOTE]
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