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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 392476" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Has he been better on the Celexa as far as his mood and behavior? I know that Prozac and Zoloft both made me nuts. I ended up in ER on Zoloft. Prozac made me so depressed, I was suicidal. If you see an improvement then you know it is working. If he is worse, it is obviously not working. I don't know how long he has been on it, but it only took two weeks of my taking Zoloft to end up in ER. I know I'm in the minority, but I'd give the kid a hearing. Some of the medications that doctors prescribed to me made me way worse. Since I was an adult, I was able to articulate that to the doctors and refuse to take them when I knew they were harming me. Kids can't do that. You can force him, I'm sure, but I don't know if that's a good thing. I have gotten toxic reactions to a few drugs for taking them for too long. I noticed warning signs, but, like people here said, wanted to give the drug more time. Amitriptylene almost choked me to death...my throat was closing up and I had to drink water all the way to ER. Also, I was hallucinating like people do on LSD trips. It was scary. The drugs psychiatrists give to our kids, are not antibiotics that save our lives. They are pretty much "hit or miss" with no knowledge of how each drug will affect the particular child. I finally found a great drug combo that didn't make me feel worse. I took me ten year! This is a lot of experimentation.</p><p></p><p>These medications are serious drugs. I think many doctors hand out too many too fast and don't tell us what to look for in the way of side effects. I also don't think they listen to kids (or sometimes adults). I had a kid once on medications and I saw some pretty horrible side effects, like movement disorders and, with my teenager, a suicidal attempt brought on by Prozac. Doctors aren't infallible. JMO</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 392476, member: 1550"] Has he been better on the Celexa as far as his mood and behavior? I know that Prozac and Zoloft both made me nuts. I ended up in ER on Zoloft. Prozac made me so depressed, I was suicidal. If you see an improvement then you know it is working. If he is worse, it is obviously not working. I don't know how long he has been on it, but it only took two weeks of my taking Zoloft to end up in ER. I know I'm in the minority, but I'd give the kid a hearing. Some of the medications that doctors prescribed to me made me way worse. Since I was an adult, I was able to articulate that to the doctors and refuse to take them when I knew they were harming me. Kids can't do that. You can force him, I'm sure, but I don't know if that's a good thing. I have gotten toxic reactions to a few drugs for taking them for too long. I noticed warning signs, but, like people here said, wanted to give the drug more time. Amitriptylene almost choked me to death...my throat was closing up and I had to drink water all the way to ER. Also, I was hallucinating like people do on LSD trips. It was scary. The drugs psychiatrists give to our kids, are not antibiotics that save our lives. They are pretty much "hit or miss" with no knowledge of how each drug will affect the particular child. I finally found a great drug combo that didn't make me feel worse. I took me ten year! This is a lot of experimentation. These medications are serious drugs. I think many doctors hand out too many too fast and don't tell us what to look for in the way of side effects. I also don't think they listen to kids (or sometimes adults). I had a kid once on medications and I saw some pretty horrible side effects, like movement disorders and, with my teenager, a suicidal attempt brought on by Prozac. Doctors aren't infallible. JMO [/QUOTE]
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