celexa

difficult child had his 1st dose of Celexa today. 5 mg of Citalopram at 12:45 (he forgot to take in the morning) with 50 mg Vitamin B-2. He also started a multi-vitamin (for teens) and Vitamin D tonight (both psychiatrist suggested) along with a calcium chew and the Vitamin B-2 (neurologist had suggested the...

Here we go again ... difficult child does not tolerate stimulants well and has severe tics on them and his neuropsychologist suggested Wellbutrin which made him break out in a rash. Now he suggests Lexapro ... I just feel so bad for difficult child and all these medications worry me. In my heart I know he needs "something" to...

I am new here, so I'll try not to make this too long. Here's our background. We have a 10 year old non verbal autistic child. During the summer he started having horrible fits of rage all day long. We finally decided to take him to a psychiatric dr. He was being incredibly aggressive at school...

My son has been diagnosed with idiopathic chondrolysis. Does anyone know anything about this disease?

Several months ago, after trying my 10 y.o. daughter (difficult child 1) on Prozac, it was a disaster. Her meltdowns, which were bad, got out of control at home and school. Took her off the Prozac and they didn't stop. Now after having her heavily medicated on Risperdal, Concerta and now Zoloft, she's...

As you know, my difficult child is a big LIAR. Why am I reminding you? Because I have to keep reminding *myself*! She's a liar...she's lying....the things she says are not true... difficult child has been mouthing off to school personnel. She's already received detention for it this year because she refused to...

Back about six years ago, difficult child was diagnosed with a 'mood disorder', but we were never given a very good description of what that meant to her specifically. At the time, her psychiatrist had switched her from celexa to lexapro, which subsequently sent difficult child into a hypo manic state, which eventually led to...

Does anyone have experience with Celexa? difficult child was just prescribed Celexa. He was diagnosis with depression. What are the pros and cons of Celexa?

Does anyone else's kids fight getting ready for school? Its only week two and I'm already exhausted and SO SO tired of this fight. My difficult child doesn't seem to mind school itself, but hates the getting ready process. He fights eating breakfast, getting clothes on, putting shoes on, walking to the...

difficult child fell asleep on the couch at 6:00 last night, and I got her upstairs at 9:45. No shower of course. Woke her up at 6 this morning, to see if she wanted to wash her hair as she planned. Too tired. It is like she has only had 4-5 hours of sleep. Can't even keep her eyes open. She is...

Hi there. It's been a while since I've updated. Here's where things are and I am hoping the collective wisdom will have some words or advice or comments to help educate me. Really hoping to hear some positive stories of their difficult child's successfully coming off Risperdal. Please tell me how it's...

difficult child has a history of insomnia (insists there is no problem now) and of waking up on school mornings feeling sick. She's missed a huge amount of school in the last few years and was off for a whole month before Christmas vacation for various ailments. She has failed the entire first semester of...

Hi, My little girl is 6 1/2 and has had issues since birth. After lots of early intervention and therapy she/we have gotten through most things but it is clear she suffers from an anxiety disorder. She has been seeing the same psychologist since 2 years old it has helped tremendously. I had not...

For us it was Risperdal, Zyprexa, Depakote, Lithium, Remeron, Trazadene and Paxil/Paroxatene

Carson started taking Celexa on Monday of last week. Friday was his first "good" day at school. He got most of his work done in class. He didn't show defiant behaviour. He didn't hide under his desk. He didn't show anger or have "attitude". He had a good weekend. Told his 10 year old sister he...

An update.... After the police came and had a stern talking-to with difficult child on Wed., Thursday afternoon rolls around and he proceeds to throw a chair at his sister. She protected herself with her legs (she was sitting on the edge of the bed) and is okay. After many calls to counselors, crisis...

Eeyore is completely off the rails. I have a call into the local PHP and we are waiting to find out if the doctor will accept him. Please pray very hard that she will. I think we are just a hairs breath away from a psychiatric admit and I do not think that he will do well if he can't sleep in his own bed.

The good news is that I don't see any bad side effects. At first he was slightly activated and more hyper but that's abated back to a "normal" level for him. I think that the anxiety is slightly better but I'm not sure. Do you all think that giving it 2 more weeks will make a difference or is...

Are we looking at major side effects? The psychiatrist is pitching a huge fit that difficult child would like to see if she can go off of some if not all of her medications. Tdocs are behind difficult child, and so are we. I am just wondering at the time frame we are looking at, and what if any side effects will we see? I just want...

We had the parent meeting for difficult child 2 to go over all the test results with-the neuropsychologist today. She really didn't shed too much new light on anything. She added nothing to our diagnoses of ADHD and anxiety. She felt his learning, etc... is fine, which we knew already. She feels the biggest...