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<blockquote data-quote="TiredSoul" data-source="post: 378846" data-attributes="member: 3930"><p>Hi Barneysmom,</p><p>Thanks for your reply. Our pediatrician-doctor is young and not super experienced, but she is very thorough and knows my son well. The p-doctor we saw was just one time. He basically just met with us and our son and confirmed the diagnosis he had. Then he gave us a list of suggestions we could try (the first being Intuniv) and said he could manage the medications or he could work with our pediatrician and she could manage them. That was the extent of his involvement, other than our pediatrician calling and asking for his advice on the Tenex. Yes, Tenex is guanfacine. Intuniv is guanfacine. Tenex is short acting and used off label for ADHD. Intuniv is long acting and used for ADHD. Our pediatrician has even mentioned she has some kids on Clonidine which is very similar to Tenex but is more sedating and we don't want that.</p><p></p><p>I don't know what to do. We even said fine then, write the script for Intuniv and we will bite the bullet - but then she said you'd be better off spending that money on counseling. She thinks he has anxiety, but the behaviors we see when he is not medicated do not appear to be anxiety. They seem uncontrollable, and downright belligerent at times. Sometimes he acts as if he is drunk. Getting him to get dressed for school he is floppy and hanging all over the place and flopping on the floor and then I have to pull him up and he just laughs like a drunk laugh and thinks it's funny or something. By the time I get him to school I am ready to hit the bottle (j/k, but geeeez!).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TiredSoul, post: 378846, member: 3930"] Hi Barneysmom, Thanks for your reply. Our pediatrician-doctor is young and not super experienced, but she is very thorough and knows my son well. The p-doctor we saw was just one time. He basically just met with us and our son and confirmed the diagnosis he had. Then he gave us a list of suggestions we could try (the first being Intuniv) and said he could manage the medications or he could work with our pediatrician and she could manage them. That was the extent of his involvement, other than our pediatrician calling and asking for his advice on the Tenex. Yes, Tenex is guanfacine. Intuniv is guanfacine. Tenex is short acting and used off label for ADHD. Intuniv is long acting and used for ADHD. Our pediatrician has even mentioned she has some kids on Clonidine which is very similar to Tenex but is more sedating and we don't want that. I don't know what to do. We even said fine then, write the script for Intuniv and we will bite the bullet - but then she said you'd be better off spending that money on counseling. She thinks he has anxiety, but the behaviors we see when he is not medicated do not appear to be anxiety. They seem uncontrollable, and downright belligerent at times. Sometimes he acts as if he is drunk. Getting him to get dressed for school he is floppy and hanging all over the place and flopping on the floor and then I have to pull him up and he just laughs like a drunk laugh and thinks it's funny or something. By the time I get him to school I am ready to hit the bottle (j/k, but geeeez!). [/QUOTE]
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