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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 473596" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>This is my attitude after my son was a major guinea pig for his psychiatrist, who threw medications at him to see what stuck. Eventually we caught on that certain medications made him worse. When that happened, even without the permission of psychiatrist (often with help from wonderful pediatrician) we weaned him off BEFORE we spoke to the prescribing doctor. It didn't take much to figure out when drugs were making things even more awful. Why prolong it by keeping him on those medications? </p><p>To be honest, once son was medication free he was 100% better. I can't promise that to everybody's difficult child, but I often wonder if these medications make the kids better or worse. I think it depends on the child, the medication, and the psychiatrist. There are so many psychiatrists who put these kids on five drugs, trying to medicate away every symptoms and insisting on our continuing medications when they clearly are NOT working. </p><p></p><p>I have my own horror story. Read it and take what you can get from it and dismiss the rest. When I was young one psychiatrist put me on lithium. I felt like I was walking in a dream and it scared me so much that I threatened suicide. what did he do? Put me on MORE lithium. It got worse. I told him. What did he do? Put me on MORE Lithium. Finally I took a whole bottle of Valium. I knew it wouldn't kill me and I just wanted to sleep. Woke up three days later with a clear head, and two days later saw a new psychiatrist who I told about the Lithium and how weird it had made me feel. Well...</p><p></p><p>New psychiatrist believed me and decided to test my lithium level although I had not taken any in five days. When I saw him to get the results, I could see he was holding in his anger. Even after having not taken Lithium for five days, my Lithium level had come back TOXIC. Yes, even after it had had five days to remove itself from my system it was still TOXIC. I wasn't on a high dose, but Lithium was a baaaaaaaaad medication for me. It could have killed me if I hadn't disconintued on my own so in a sense my three days of sleep due to Valium overdose saved my life (hope you can follow this). I have to take a very small dose of any drug, and psychiatrists don't believe me so they put me on normal doses which usually are very dangerous...thus I became...</p><p></p><p>...a cynic. I do have to take medications but if I am given medications and feel terrible and am told to continue those drugs that are making me sicker (and often told to increase the dosage, well)...hogwash. I use my common sense these days. j</p><p></p><p>Beware of doctors saying: "it can't be the medications. The dose is too low." "It can't be the medications, he hasn't been on it long enough. Let's give it more time." "Well, it's probably TOO LOW a dose. Let's INCREASE the dose and see if the extra medications help the rages stop..." "It's what is going on in his life...it is definitely NOT the medication." These are the most common things to be told when it actually IS the medication, but the psychiatrist, for some reason, does not want to admit it. Scary stuff.</p><p></p><p>JMO and mega-experience. They even say the same stuff to adults and try to make you feel guilty (yes, guilty) if the medications they prescribe don't work. It's crazy! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 473596, member: 1550"] This is my attitude after my son was a major guinea pig for his psychiatrist, who threw medications at him to see what stuck. Eventually we caught on that certain medications made him worse. When that happened, even without the permission of psychiatrist (often with help from wonderful pediatrician) we weaned him off BEFORE we spoke to the prescribing doctor. It didn't take much to figure out when drugs were making things even more awful. Why prolong it by keeping him on those medications? To be honest, once son was medication free he was 100% better. I can't promise that to everybody's difficult child, but I often wonder if these medications make the kids better or worse. I think it depends on the child, the medication, and the psychiatrist. There are so many psychiatrists who put these kids on five drugs, trying to medicate away every symptoms and insisting on our continuing medications when they clearly are NOT working. I have my own horror story. Read it and take what you can get from it and dismiss the rest. When I was young one psychiatrist put me on lithium. I felt like I was walking in a dream and it scared me so much that I threatened suicide. what did he do? Put me on MORE lithium. It got worse. I told him. What did he do? Put me on MORE Lithium. Finally I took a whole bottle of Valium. I knew it wouldn't kill me and I just wanted to sleep. Woke up three days later with a clear head, and two days later saw a new psychiatrist who I told about the Lithium and how weird it had made me feel. Well... New psychiatrist believed me and decided to test my lithium level although I had not taken any in five days. When I saw him to get the results, I could see he was holding in his anger. Even after having not taken Lithium for five days, my Lithium level had come back TOXIC. Yes, even after it had had five days to remove itself from my system it was still TOXIC. I wasn't on a high dose, but Lithium was a baaaaaaaaad medication for me. It could have killed me if I hadn't disconintued on my own so in a sense my three days of sleep due to Valium overdose saved my life (hope you can follow this). I have to take a very small dose of any drug, and psychiatrists don't believe me so they put me on normal doses which usually are very dangerous...thus I became... ...a cynic. I do have to take medications but if I am given medications and feel terrible and am told to continue those drugs that are making me sicker (and often told to increase the dosage, well)...hogwash. I use my common sense these days. j Beware of doctors saying: "it can't be the medications. The dose is too low." "It can't be the medications, he hasn't been on it long enough. Let's give it more time." "Well, it's probably TOO LOW a dose. Let's INCREASE the dose and see if the extra medications help the rages stop..." "It's what is going on in his life...it is definitely NOT the medication." These are the most common things to be told when it actually IS the medication, but the psychiatrist, for some reason, does not want to admit it. Scary stuff. JMO and mega-experience. They even say the same stuff to adults and try to make you feel guilty (yes, guilty) if the medications they prescribe don't work. It's crazy! :) [/QUOTE]
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