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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 395016" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Jena, from what you describe, I would think risperdal would be a logical choice. We can't predict if it will be WOW! or disaster for her, but I can tell you that when my boys were on risperdal, the main problem we had with difficult child 1 was sleepiness and weight gain. The main problem we had from ti with difficult child 3 was the cost of the pills. In other words, for difficult child 3 there were no side effects (we thought) but minimal benefit for him, either. Minimal benefit, eventually, for difficult child 1 but that was because by the time we stopped the medications (in both boys) difficult child 1 was no longer in mainstream, and it was mainstream that was also a big part of the problem. Reducing the stress in their environment reduced a lot of the anxiety that the risperdal had been treating. </p><p></p><p>We didn't think difficult child 3 had any side effects so we took him off the risperdal. Although he was already skinny, he immediately lost weight. OFF the risperdal. The doctor was worried, but the weight loss was sudden and one-off, and we think it was due to removing the appetite-stimulant effect of the risperdal. A month after coming off risperdal, difficult child 3 began to gain weight again at the normal rate for a kid his age. The weight-loss was a one-off.</p><p></p><p>So make your choice. Your daughter has different conditions to my kids, so the medications are probably more likely to work for her.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 395016, member: 1991"] Jena, from what you describe, I would think risperdal would be a logical choice. We can't predict if it will be WOW! or disaster for her, but I can tell you that when my boys were on risperdal, the main problem we had with difficult child 1 was sleepiness and weight gain. The main problem we had from ti with difficult child 3 was the cost of the pills. In other words, for difficult child 3 there were no side effects (we thought) but minimal benefit for him, either. Minimal benefit, eventually, for difficult child 1 but that was because by the time we stopped the medications (in both boys) difficult child 1 was no longer in mainstream, and it was mainstream that was also a big part of the problem. Reducing the stress in their environment reduced a lot of the anxiety that the risperdal had been treating. We didn't think difficult child 3 had any side effects so we took him off the risperdal. Although he was already skinny, he immediately lost weight. OFF the risperdal. The doctor was worried, but the weight loss was sudden and one-off, and we think it was due to removing the appetite-stimulant effect of the risperdal. A month after coming off risperdal, difficult child 3 began to gain weight again at the normal rate for a kid his age. The weight-loss was a one-off. So make your choice. Your daughter has different conditions to my kids, so the medications are probably more likely to work for her. Marg [/QUOTE]
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