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<blockquote data-quote="Christy" data-source="post: 170563" data-attributes="member: 225"><p>Thanks everyone,</p><p></p><p>Shari your suggestion is a good one. I do this anytime I must take difficult child to the grocery store. It may have helped in this istance as well.</p><p></p><p>We see the psychiatrist pretty regularly, our next appointment is July 10th I believe. We will probably wait it out until then unless we have more violent episodes.</p><p></p><p>I don't think he is stable and really has never been to the point where he was tantrum/meltdown free for a reasonable period of time. The best we have gotten is to eliminate the violence and destructive behaviors for a period of time and unfortuantely, we are starting to see this again. Not regularly but enough that I don't want to take him in public unless necesaary and this is not an easy way to live.</p><p></p><p>Small, He's currently taking a total of 825 mg trilleptal (divided in 2 doses), 200 mg serequel, 100 mg geodon, and .05 mg clonidine (divided in two doses). The most recent adjustment was to raise trilleptal 75 mg (2 wks ago). We have hopes of tapering off the geodon as it was intended for the trilleptal to replace it but have not become stable enough to do this. The clonidine was lowered from a dose of .05 (3xs/day) to .05 (2xs/day) to .0025 (2xs/day) because it may have been contributing to an agitated, depressed mood we were seeing. I think I am going to ask the for the serequel to be raised at our next visit. Some other medications we have tried and they either worked then stopped working or had no effect are depakote (never had much effect), risperdal & lamictal (worked pretty well for about two years then stopped being effective even at higher doses), abilify (sme improvement but not much, felt bad while taking it, drooling problem and eneurisis) and many stimulant medications, straterra, and wellbutrin for ADHD (ALL BAD! for difficult child)</p><p></p><p>As for the trigger, he was probably thirsty. He has no ability to delay gratification and is very intense when it comes to having his needs met immediately. In retrospect, I should have got him the dumb water bottle but it doesn't matter. Even if he felt I was being mean or unfair or he felt discomfort due to his thirst, physical violence is not acceptable. He does not get this.</p><p></p><p>Thanks for your kind words and suggestions.</p><p>Christy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Christy, post: 170563, member: 225"] Thanks everyone, Shari your suggestion is a good one. I do this anytime I must take difficult child to the grocery store. It may have helped in this istance as well. We see the psychiatrist pretty regularly, our next appointment is July 10th I believe. We will probably wait it out until then unless we have more violent episodes. I don't think he is stable and really has never been to the point where he was tantrum/meltdown free for a reasonable period of time. The best we have gotten is to eliminate the violence and destructive behaviors for a period of time and unfortuantely, we are starting to see this again. Not regularly but enough that I don't want to take him in public unless necesaary and this is not an easy way to live. Small, He's currently taking a total of 825 mg trilleptal (divided in 2 doses), 200 mg serequel, 100 mg geodon, and .05 mg clonidine (divided in two doses). The most recent adjustment was to raise trilleptal 75 mg (2 wks ago). We have hopes of tapering off the geodon as it was intended for the trilleptal to replace it but have not become stable enough to do this. The clonidine was lowered from a dose of .05 (3xs/day) to .05 (2xs/day) to .0025 (2xs/day) because it may have been contributing to an agitated, depressed mood we were seeing. I think I am going to ask the for the serequel to be raised at our next visit. Some other medications we have tried and they either worked then stopped working or had no effect are depakote (never had much effect), risperdal & lamictal (worked pretty well for about two years then stopped being effective even at higher doses), abilify (sme improvement but not much, felt bad while taking it, drooling problem and eneurisis) and many stimulant medications, straterra, and wellbutrin for ADHD (ALL BAD! for difficult child) As for the trigger, he was probably thirsty. He has no ability to delay gratification and is very intense when it comes to having his needs met immediately. In retrospect, I should have got him the dumb water bottle but it doesn't matter. Even if he felt I was being mean or unfair or he felt discomfort due to his thirst, physical violence is not acceptable. He does not get this. Thanks for your kind words and suggestions. Christy [/QUOTE]
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