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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 718556" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>When my son was younger he took risperidone to help with the violence. It is an atypical antipsychotic and a very heavy duty medication. It allowed him to control his violent tendencies to some extent. </p><p></p><p>Have you taken the time to sit down with him when he IS medicated and ask him what is going on when he gets violent with you? I often found that my son could, in a quiet time, tell me what was going on and why things were happening. It took some persistence and didn't magically happen the first time I asked. I had to ask the question, then give him time to ponder it, often a week or more. Then in another quiet, peaceful time when it was just us and he was not in a hurry or deep into a game or book, I could bring it up and ask what he thought about it. Sometimes it took doing this 3 or 4 times and would like to drive me crazy because I wanted my answer NOW. But autism doesn't work that way. It works on its' own schedule, not mine. So I learned more patience and I could get answers. Sometimes. The answers I did get were definitely worth waiting for.</p><p></p><p>RIght now my son has found that a combination of 3 medications works best for him. He is taking strattera for his adhd, trazodone for sleep disturbance, and luvox for depression. These actually are all antidepression medications but 2 of them work on other things better than on depressions. He has what they call unipolar depression, meaning is all doom and gloom and never ever gets manic. Poor kid. It takes all 3 of the medications to keep him out of the depths of depression and functioning, and without any one medication he just doesn't feel like himself. We are lucky in that medication compliance really has not been an issue. He has tried going off of his medications a time or two as an adult, but he felt so awful that he called his doctor and said it just was not worth it. I think most young adults would do that.</p><p></p><p>Since childhood my son has been on more medications than I could even list here. But risperidone is the one that did the most for the violence. Geodon helped it for a little while and we also tried the other atypical antipsychotics too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 718556, member: 1233"] When my son was younger he took risperidone to help with the violence. It is an atypical antipsychotic and a very heavy duty medication. It allowed him to control his violent tendencies to some extent. Have you taken the time to sit down with him when he IS medicated and ask him what is going on when he gets violent with you? I often found that my son could, in a quiet time, tell me what was going on and why things were happening. It took some persistence and didn't magically happen the first time I asked. I had to ask the question, then give him time to ponder it, often a week or more. Then in another quiet, peaceful time when it was just us and he was not in a hurry or deep into a game or book, I could bring it up and ask what he thought about it. Sometimes it took doing this 3 or 4 times and would like to drive me crazy because I wanted my answer NOW. But autism doesn't work that way. It works on its' own schedule, not mine. So I learned more patience and I could get answers. Sometimes. The answers I did get were definitely worth waiting for. RIght now my son has found that a combination of 3 medications works best for him. He is taking strattera for his adhd, trazodone for sleep disturbance, and luvox for depression. These actually are all antidepression medications but 2 of them work on other things better than on depressions. He has what they call unipolar depression, meaning is all doom and gloom and never ever gets manic. Poor kid. It takes all 3 of the medications to keep him out of the depths of depression and functioning, and without any one medication he just doesn't feel like himself. We are lucky in that medication compliance really has not been an issue. He has tried going off of his medications a time or two as an adult, but he felt so awful that he called his doctor and said it just was not worth it. I think most young adults would do that. Since childhood my son has been on more medications than I could even list here. But risperidone is the one that did the most for the violence. Geodon helped it for a little while and we also tried the other atypical antipsychotics too. [/QUOTE]
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