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<blockquote data-quote="Steely" data-source="post: 423028" data-attributes="member: 3301"><p>Well the therapist truly has no business giving you medication advice. It is not his expertise! And it verges on unethical.</p><p></p><p>As for the Dr., believe me, I have had doctors tell me so many things that I know don't sync up with my own common sense or experience - or sync up with what some of the research says - that is makes me wonder too. All I can say is that our difficult children are not within the bell shaped curve of the kids they usually help, so they don't really have a lot of experience. Most of these doctors are used to giving hyper kids Rhitalin, and depressed kids Prozac, and they are not experienced with trying to create a balanced multiple medication mix with an out of control child.</p><p></p><p>So I always made it more my role (helpful or not) to question every thing, every decision, do my own research, and then once a medication was chosen go with my gut on how it was helping. For instance they gave Matt Abilify and he was up three whole days in a state of mania. The Dr told me that was impossible, that medication doesn't do that. Whatever - it evidently DID - so we can't take it. Choose another one.</p><p></p><p>The turning point for me was when I found a Dr who wanted my input, listened to me, and did not dismiss my intuition. She got us through the roughest of times - and was amazing. She was always on call, and if there was an emergency I could call her anytime. We truly <u>collaborated</u> on getting his medications straight - and I think that made a <strong>huge</strong> difference.</p><p></p><p>Good luck.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steely, post: 423028, member: 3301"] Well the therapist truly has no business giving you medication advice. It is not his expertise! And it verges on unethical. As for the Dr., believe me, I have had doctors tell me so many things that I know don't sync up with my own common sense or experience - or sync up with what some of the research says - that is makes me wonder too. All I can say is that our difficult children are not within the bell shaped curve of the kids they usually help, so they don't really have a lot of experience. Most of these doctors are used to giving hyper kids Rhitalin, and depressed kids Prozac, and they are not experienced with trying to create a balanced multiple medication mix with an out of control child. So I always made it more my role (helpful or not) to question every thing, every decision, do my own research, and then once a medication was chosen go with my gut on how it was helping. For instance they gave Matt Abilify and he was up three whole days in a state of mania. The Dr told me that was impossible, that medication doesn't do that. Whatever - it evidently DID - so we can't take it. Choose another one. The turning point for me was when I found a Dr who wanted my input, listened to me, and did not dismiss my intuition. She got us through the roughest of times - and was amazing. She was always on call, and if there was an emergency I could call her anytime. We truly [U]collaborated[/U] on getting his medications straight - and I think that made a [B]huge[/B] difference. Good luck. [/QUOTE]
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