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Thank you all for responding so quickly. He was diagnosed at age 9 by a child psychiatrist. He started just on Strattera. At age 11 he was put on Prozac for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and depression. The prozac did seem to help the Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) alot but not the depression. He also went to counseling during this time which didn't help at all. I would try to pull him off the strattera during the summers and every summer I regretted it so maybe the medicine helped a little. We had to change doctors one year ago at age 13 because of insurance. I tried a pediatric neurologist and she recommended Mental Health due to his anxieties. He has severe sleep problems and I thought maybe neurology would help but they said the anxiety keeps him up. I then went to a new psychiatrist and tried counseling again. No help. This psychiatrist just increased his strattera and prozac 1 month ago. After one week of increase in medications his behavior got much worse. (calls from the school everyday for bad behavior which usually he would average once a month getting in trouble). I thought maybe this was due to the increase in medicine. This new psychiatrist only has an answering device to leave messages. You have to rely on them to return your calls. I also needed a f/u appointment. They didn't call back after 2 messages. I had no other medicine so I had to take him off both medications. I have no idea who to go see next. His pediatrician is not comfortable prescribing these medications. No one has ever addressed his ODD issues even tho I bring it up a lot. He does have an IEP but I don't see the school putting forth much effort. At home we can never get him to do homework or even open a book. Some problems we have been dealing with - inappropriate behavior, language, makes fun of others, bullying, utter defiance. (At a store recently we told him we wouldnt buy a box of cookies so he just opened it up in the store and started eating it so we had no choice but to buy it). I can go on and on . . .

<blockquote data-quote="jencita" data-source="post: 50017" data-attributes="member: 3803"><p>Thank you all for responding so quickly. He was diagnosed at age 9 by a child psychiatrist. He started just on Strattera. At age 11 he was put on Prozac for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and depression.&nbsp; The prozac did seem to help the Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) alot but not the depression. He also went to counseling during this time which didn't help at all. I would try to pull him off the strattera during the summers and every summer I regretted it so maybe the medicine helped a little. We had to change doctors one year ago at age 13 because of insurance. I tried a pediatric neurologist and she recommended Mental Health due to his anxieties. He has severe sleep problems and I thought maybe neurology would help but they said the anxiety keeps him up.&nbsp; I then went to a new psychiatrist and tried counseling again. No help. This psychiatrist just increased his strattera and prozac 1 month ago. After one week of increase in medications his behavior got much worse. (calls from the school everyday for bad behavior which usually he would average once a month getting in trouble).&nbsp; I thought maybe this was due to the increase in medicine. This new psychiatrist only has an answering device to leave messages. You have to rely on them to return your calls. I also needed a f/u appointment. They didn't call back after 2 messages. I had no other medicine so I had to take him off both medications. I have no idea who to go see next. His pediatrician is not comfortable prescribing these medications. No one has ever addressed his ODD issues even tho I bring it up a lot.&nbsp; He does have an IEP but I don't see the school putting forth much effort.&nbsp; At home we can never get him to do homework or even open a book. Some problems we have been dealing with - inappropriate behavior, language, makes fun of others, bullying, utter defiance. (At a store recently we told him we wouldnt buy a box of cookies so he just opened it up in the store and started eating it so we had no choice but to buy it).&nbsp; I can go on and on . . .</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="jencita, post: 50017, member: 3803"] Thank you all for responding so quickly. He was diagnosed at age 9 by a child psychiatrist. He started just on Strattera. At age 11 he was put on Prozac for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and depression. The prozac did seem to help the Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) alot but not the depression. He also went to counseling during this time which didn't help at all. I would try to pull him off the strattera during the summers and every summer I regretted it so maybe the medicine helped a little. We had to change doctors one year ago at age 13 because of insurance. I tried a pediatric neurologist and she recommended Mental Health due to his anxieties. He has severe sleep problems and I thought maybe neurology would help but they said the anxiety keeps him up. I then went to a new psychiatrist and tried counseling again. No help. This psychiatrist just increased his strattera and prozac 1 month ago. After one week of increase in medications his behavior got much worse. (calls from the school everyday for bad behavior which usually he would average once a month getting in trouble). I thought maybe this was due to the increase in medicine. This new psychiatrist only has an answering device to leave messages. You have to rely on them to return your calls. I also needed a f/u appointment. They didn't call back after 2 messages. I had no other medicine so I had to take him off both medications. I have no idea who to go see next. His pediatrician is not comfortable prescribing these medications. No one has ever addressed his ODD issues even tho I bring it up a lot. He does have an IEP but I don't see the school putting forth much effort. At home we can never get him to do homework or even open a book. Some problems we have been dealing with - inappropriate behavior, language, makes fun of others, bullying, utter defiance. (At a store recently we told him we wouldnt buy a box of cookies so he just opened it up in the store and started eating it so we had no choice but to buy it). I can go on and on . . . [/QUOTE]

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