Posted by Mr. Scott on February 10, 2002, at 15:17:46
In reply to Re: Son - autism and bipolar, posted by e503 on February 10, 2002, at 11:23:28
> I'll try to answer some questions. Autism vs. bipolar? Ben has been like this as long as I can remember. Over the years we never knew what the deal was (he is adopted). He was obsessive and got agitated, so of course, we tried the SSRI's. One thing I do remember was when we put him on anafranil. It was new and the pdoc kept on raising the dosage. Ben was jumping all over the house and was bruised and I remember thinking maybe he had leukemia (my daughter had it when she was a baby). OF course, it was the anafranil. Over the years we have tried everything. Mellaril, prozac, ritalin, dexarine, luvox, etc. A few years ago, he was on risperdol and zoloft. FOr some reason, we tried to add seroquel to the mix. Well,,,,Ben got totally wild and out of control. My pdoc was out of town and the doc on call told me to put him on tegretol. That was it. It was a miracle. So....is it bipolar or autism? I dont know, but whatever it is, he does get help from the mood stabilizers. So, anyways, he was on tegretol, 1 mg. risperdol and 75 mg. zoloft for probably abut 2 or more years. Quite stable. Life was great! In the last few months we have had to increase his tegretol. Now it is at 1400 mg. day/level was 8.4. 1 mg. risperdol and night only. (seems when i gave it to him during the day, he got more agitated, and cut back to 50 mg. zoloft. He is still cycling somewhat and i feel horrible for him. I don't know when my pdoc will be back in town. i will call tomorrow. on the bipolar kids sites it says to get him off ssri's, but i really don't know what to do.
> Sorry for the ramble, but just wanted to give the details. Anyone help? PLEASE??????Cut the zoloft back to 25mg and 25mg down to a total of 50mg... Or go even lower to 25mg a day and see what happens. Nothing crazy will happen. Worst comes to worse he'll be more obsessive and you'll just have to re administer the Zoloft and try a new approach.
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