Posted by comftnumb on January 2, 2003, at 23:16:27
In reply to Re: Abilify is it a cure for SZ. » comftnumb, posted by Patsarus on January 2, 2003, at 10:46:22
I'm sorry to hear about your daughter. It's heartbreaking. Onset at age 11 is so rare. The onset of my schizophrenia occured at 19. I'm very lucky to take an antipsychotic that leaves me with no active symptoms or side-effects.
Have you considered giving your daughter Clozaril (Clozapine)? It has a horrible side-effects profile but it's also the most effective atypical there is.
If you want more information there is PubMed online. You can search the abstracts of the publishings of most medical journals. Many studies have been done on Clozapine and childhood onset schizophrenia. The link is http://www.ncbi.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi
Hope that helps...
> She has been on Seroquel, Zyprexa, Risperdal, Geodon, and now Abilify. She stayed on Geodon to the maximum dose of 80 mg twice daily which is unusual in an adult, much less a child. She just turned 12 on Christmas Eve. The Geodon caused tardive dyskinesia. She was first hospitalized in April 2002 and has already gone through all of these meds. She just got out of the hospital again the week before Christmas and the symptoms are already back. We wish there was something that would give her back a somewhat normal life. She was a straight A student and the school will not even allow her in the building this year.
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