Posted 10/22/2004 1:23 PM (GMT 0)
I agree with Randy, do not discontinue meds with out speaking with doctor, abruptly taking off of meds can cause serious problems. I am new to the heallingwell site, been here about a month now, I originally joined the lupus and fibromaylgia forum for me, but I have a 5 and a half year old daughter with mild autism, and bipolar, and i have a son who is a mix of bipolar and adhd, mainly bipolar, because his attention span can be real good at times, though most teachers have written through out the years Jae neeeds to listen Jae needs to pay attention, Jae needs to stop talking in class. But his behaviour in school is pretty good, somehow he manages to manitain at school and then blows up at home, I am finding out this common with many bp children, my daughter was the same way. she wa put on staterra in may for 3 weeks made her more anxious, then we went to zoloft, these was Godsend for about 2 months, than she went manic, had to wean off zoloft, most antidepressants will bring out mania in a bipolar person if they are not on a mood stablizer as well. Kara is now on Resperdal and prozac, been about 2 weeks now, I am concerncerd about the prozac, and hope it does not induce mania agian like the zoloft ultimatley did. The resperdal has helped very much with her aggression, sh ewas hurting me, kicking me jumpeing on me, biting me etc, she is doing much better, witht the exception she is manifesting severe speration anxiety, we are hopin gthe prozac will help that, today she went o full dose, so we will see. Back to my son he will 10 in a couple of weeks, He has managed to make straight As since kindergatern, how he does it I will never know, he will rarely do his homework unless i am sitting right with him, i guess has the seperation anxiety as well? But he is very aggressive with me in the evnings, its gets worse as the evening progresses, he becomes hypersilly, then just plain out of control, he rarely shows this to the outside worls, but in the last months or so he has been slipping some and lettin ghimslef show a bit around others. Just by chance yesterday I ran in to his ped at my daighters piano lessons. Since kara has been put on a liquid resperdal now 1/2 the dose of what she was on when she was taking the tablet that i crushed up and gave her with punch, I am now left with a half a bottle of risperdal tablets, and wehn I ran into his doc, i asked if i could give it to him twice a day, she said yes, he will probably hve to be bumped up thoguh he is 100 lbs and 5ft 2 inches much bigger than my 40 lb daughter!!. Oh I forgot to mention, Jae was first put on zoloft this august, doc said she did not think he had adhd he was able pay attention to well. so she gave him zoloft, afeter 4 days i did abruptly take him off, i had too, he went completly manic, and in his own words, said mom I am going crazy, so that was a red flag right there. Than we went to stimulants, aderall this made hyper talktive, ,more than he allready is. and than he got depressed on them he tryed to knock out his teeth. so we took hi off stimulants, and tryed straterra, 60 mgs once aday, teacher saw differnce at school, but i saw no difference at home. we bumped him up to 40 mgs twice a day, he wen completley manic, so he is down to 40 mgs at night of the straterra, so I am hoping the combo of the resperdal and strateera will help the bipolar matters and the aggressivness. Sorry to go on so long, but hope it helps you to relate to someone who knows what your experiencing, do any of these behaviours sound familiar. it is very very rare for a doc to dx a 2 year old with woth bipolar, most will not dx a child til he or she is a teen, or even an adult, most doc do not belive child bp exsists, but we know otherwise!!! Take care hope info helps.....sheryl