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<blockquote data-quote="FredGeorge" data-source="post: 442003" data-attributes="member: 12301"><p>Interesting response about 1 mg of Abilify. It has been our first week, and we were given a sample pack of 7 2mg tabs and told to try him at 1mg/day to see how he tolerated it, then consider upping to 2mg. I'll be calling in tomorrow to check in and see where we go from here.</p><p></p><p>He's on 40mg of Vyvanse a day and 50mg of Zoloft a day. He's 7 and is scrawny, though eats all the time--weighs 39 lbs. Sometimes hard to explain to 11-yr-old easy child why he and other difficult child (12 and also scrawny) can have all the milkshakes they want but she can't--though we've explained that, with their medications, it's important for them to get some extra calories.</p><p></p><p>Had an interesting talk with difficult child in the car today. He volunteered that he has frequent talks with his brain, where it tells him "Alex, do this," or "Alex, take that." I asked him if it was easy or hard to say no to his brain, and he said he didn't know because he'd never done it. I explained that the new medicine was supposed to make it a little easier to say no when he didn't want to do what his brain wanted him to do, and I asked if he could tell any difference in the last week. He said (very seriously), "I think there's some difference, but I think there's still some ways to go (holding up his thumb and index finger to indicate how far he thought he still had to go).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FredGeorge, post: 442003, member: 12301"] Interesting response about 1 mg of Abilify. It has been our first week, and we were given a sample pack of 7 2mg tabs and told to try him at 1mg/day to see how he tolerated it, then consider upping to 2mg. I'll be calling in tomorrow to check in and see where we go from here. He's on 40mg of Vyvanse a day and 50mg of Zoloft a day. He's 7 and is scrawny, though eats all the time--weighs 39 lbs. Sometimes hard to explain to 11-yr-old easy child why he and other difficult child (12 and also scrawny) can have all the milkshakes they want but she can't--though we've explained that, with their medications, it's important for them to get some extra calories. Had an interesting talk with difficult child in the car today. He volunteered that he has frequent talks with his brain, where it tells him "Alex, do this," or "Alex, take that." I asked him if it was easy or hard to say no to his brain, and he said he didn't know because he'd never done it. I explained that the new medicine was supposed to make it a little easier to say no when he didn't want to do what his brain wanted him to do, and I asked if he could tell any difference in the last week. He said (very seriously), "I think there's some difference, but I think there's still some ways to go (holding up his thumb and index finger to indicate how far he thought he still had to go). [/QUOTE]
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