Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
New profile posts
Latest activity
Internet Search
Members
Current visitors
New profile posts
Search profile posts
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Forums
Parent Support Forums
General Parenting
Prozac.....any thoughts?
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 193461" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>Yep, and after my son had been on a very low dose for a year, he started "acting out" in school, so we doubled the dose. Then school called and said he was out of control (thinking it was a behavioral-ie, ODD issue) and they were putting him on long term suspension. I kept him on the prozac because it had just been doubled about 10 days earlier and stupid me thought it just hadn't had time to take effect. Then his friends "rejected" him the next day and two days later, my son was bouncing off the walls and I thought it was because he had been grounded and it was the first pretty spring day so I told him he could go play but be back at such-a-such time (which amounted to 1 hr 45 mins). In that time, my son racked up 7 legal charges, that included B&E and felony arson for dropping lit matches around his feet and stomping on them then walking away, however, the matches hadn't all gone out. So now he has 2 felonies, has been through all kinds of legal stuff (I had to appear in court 14 times in about as many months) and he still has legal issues, but he did break the law this past spring which contributed to his legal problems. Although, he was put on mood stabilizers after that incident and has improved a lot. He did break the law this past spring but what he did was nothing as compared to what he'd done on that other "crime spree". If I had it to do over, I would not agree to prozac unless I thought my child was an inch away from suicide- and actually, I did think my son was at that point when I did agree to it. But, I did not have any knowledge about the mood disorder spectrum, symptoms of mood cycling, how prozac can trigger this if the predisposition is there, etc. </p><p></p><p>That's just our experience- take all things into consideration. I continually hear that prozac has saved many kids' lives.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 193461, member: 3699"] Yep, and after my son had been on a very low dose for a year, he started "acting out" in school, so we doubled the dose. Then school called and said he was out of control (thinking it was a behavioral-ie, ODD issue) and they were putting him on long term suspension. I kept him on the prozac because it had just been doubled about 10 days earlier and stupid me thought it just hadn't had time to take effect. Then his friends "rejected" him the next day and two days later, my son was bouncing off the walls and I thought it was because he had been grounded and it was the first pretty spring day so I told him he could go play but be back at such-a-such time (which amounted to 1 hr 45 mins). In that time, my son racked up 7 legal charges, that included B&E and felony arson for dropping lit matches around his feet and stomping on them then walking away, however, the matches hadn't all gone out. So now he has 2 felonies, has been through all kinds of legal stuff (I had to appear in court 14 times in about as many months) and he still has legal issues, but he did break the law this past spring which contributed to his legal problems. Although, he was put on mood stabilizers after that incident and has improved a lot. He did break the law this past spring but what he did was nothing as compared to what he'd done on that other "crime spree". If I had it to do over, I would not agree to prozac unless I thought my child was an inch away from suicide- and actually, I did think my son was at that point when I did agree to it. But, I did not have any knowledge about the mood disorder spectrum, symptoms of mood cycling, how prozac can trigger this if the predisposition is there, etc. That's just our experience- take all things into consideration. I continually hear that prozac has saved many kids' lives. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Parent Support Forums
General Parenting
Prozac.....any thoughts?
Top