Risperdal is officially approved for adolescents

[hedgehog]

Get ready for all the posts explaining that we're over medicating our kids.

[mopinko]

1. wow, it wasn't?

my daughter ended up in the hospital on this stuff.

[hedgehog]

2. It was a miracle for our family. That's not to say that it is the right drug for

every patient.

[mopinko]

6. oh, i know.

mostly, it was the way that it was handled, more than the drug. kiddo's first pdoc turned out to be in the early stages of alzheimers, i think. he put her on ad without taking a family history, and saw her once a week, didn't talk to us. every week she came in and said it didn't make any difference, so he cranked it up, then started adding drugs. she ended up in the psyche ward.

[no name no slogan]

3. Everybody knows the only "miracle drug" is

one of the following:

Paxil
Wellbutrin
Effexor
Cymbalta
Zoloft
Lithium
Lamictal
Geodon
Trileptal
Cytomel

And possibly several more that I may get the pleasure of trying in the next couple weeks.

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. Lamictal gave me a rash, geodon made me weaker than a kitten and

Cymbalta made me flat out looney tunes.

But for those people that found their miracle drugs among those three, bless them and hallelujah. :)

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

5. I cannot get off Paxil.

I tried once. I detoxed clean, did well for about a year, then I had a decompensation/endless anxiety event that was like the worst acid trip imaginable, without the pretty colors and groovy music, much less the willowy Deadhead princess with the flowing hair.

Seems Paxil is one of those medications that you just cannot get off, as it will tend to come back to bite you, somewhere along the way. I read this, and then had to drag the confirmation out of my psych: "Well, in raaaare cases..."

I am rare, when I wanted to be medium well. Oh well, looks like it's Paxil till I die.

[no name no slogan]

7. First time off: panic attacks. Second time off: major depressive episode

I could't work for a month after the second time.

I also gained 80lbs when on it. This was back in the mid-90s when they didn't know how totally toxic it was. I was on it for three years and looking back on it I can say it sucked.

[Larissa238]

8. Paxil detox was horrible for me

I had these random spasms of pins and needles, felt flu-like, weak and just generally horrible. Not to mention that it did nothing for me.

And am I reading your post right by thinking it was the Paxil that sent you into that anxiety event, or was it just because you were not on the Paxil and that happened?

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

10. It was because...

I had been off it for a year and interestingly, a number of folks have celebrated their one-year anniversary off Paxil with a huge decompensatory event, like an anxiety attack or recurrance of debilitating depression. It is hardly rare. It seems it is one of those nasty, yet undocumented things that happens with Paroxitine. Funny how you'll have that.

[no name no slogan]

9. I just got prescribed Risperdal this morning

But I'm not getting it filled. We "negotiated" that I'm going to up the Geodon instead.