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Seroquel? Anyone familiar with this one?
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<blockquote data-quote="oceans" data-source="post: 35349" data-attributes="member: 2687"><p>It is an antipsychotic. My son takes Zyprexa and at one time took Risperdal, which are also antipsychotics. Zyprexa is worse for weight gain, although they can all cause it. The Zyprexa is working well for him to control his racing and opposing thoughts. He takes it at night and it helps him sleep well. When we were wondering about Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD), I was told that antipsychotics help some kids with high functioning autism to be more comfortable with communication. It also helped my son to communicate and have better eye contact with others, although he went to TEACCH for an evaluation and they said that his problem was not related to the autistic spectrum. They questioned a social anxiety perhaps.</p><p></p><p>I know it is difficult to hear a diagnoses, and you might think perhaps of getting another evaluation or second opinion if the psychiatrist is not familiar with these kind of diagnoses. Our psychiatrist, therapist and state hospital psychiatrist all thought he might have a high functioning autism, but when they sent him to the people here who are experts in autism, they disagreed.</p><p></p><p>Another thing is that once you do know what is really wrong, you also know what supports to include in an IEP and how to better help him.</p><p>Those are good things.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="oceans, post: 35349, member: 2687"] It is an antipsychotic. My son takes Zyprexa and at one time took Risperdal, which are also antipsychotics. Zyprexa is worse for weight gain, although they can all cause it. The Zyprexa is working well for him to control his racing and opposing thoughts. He takes it at night and it helps him sleep well. When we were wondering about Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD), I was told that antipsychotics help some kids with high functioning autism to be more comfortable with communication. It also helped my son to communicate and have better eye contact with others, although he went to TEACCH for an evaluation and they said that his problem was not related to the autistic spectrum. They questioned a social anxiety perhaps. I know it is difficult to hear a diagnoses, and you might think perhaps of getting another evaluation or second opinion if the psychiatrist is not familiar with these kind of diagnoses. Our psychiatrist, therapist and state hospital psychiatrist all thought he might have a high functioning autism, but when they sent him to the people here who are experts in autism, they disagreed. Another thing is that once you do know what is really wrong, you also know what supports to include in an IEP and how to better help him. Those are good things. [/QUOTE]
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