and Cari; Re: Downs and OCD

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Hi and Cari,

Great discussion. I haven't heard of Lexapro before but am

interested in it. My daughter Angel, 12 years old, has a dual

diagnosis of T21 and autism. We currently have her on dexadrine

because our pediatrician attended a conference in Canada where

another pediatrician showed results of a study she had done using it

with kids with the same dual diagnosis, as it aides in the

development of communication. It made a vast difference with

Angel's communication abilities, she's now asking questions, forming

sentences and doing so well with it. But she still does major

stimming things, like folding and refolding clothes and packing and

unpacking, etc and has a very hard time moving on from something

she's stimming on. I'll have to search for info on Lexapro to see

if it would be of benefit to her as well.

many thanks for sharing,

Cheryl

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> Nick takes Lexapro 10 mg. for his OCD tendencies.? One of Nick's

main issues revolved around shoestrings.? He obsessed about them

being tied and it wasn't just his (perfect strangers were included

in this obsession).? Since he started taking the Lexapro we have had

an easier time redirecting this obsession.? Some of his other quirks

we do what your husband is suggesting.? (We did with the shoestrings

too, but sometimes even that didn't work.)? On one hand I agree that

sometimes the OCD habit is just that a habit that has grown into an

obsession and as a habit it can be redirected.? Sometimes that

redirection requires a boost to take and that is where the meds come

into play.

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> My son had been diagnosed with OCD years ago. Was started on

Celexa

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> to help control. His OCD was REEEAALLLY bad. Would spend hours, if

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> not a whole day folding and refolding clothes, rearranging his

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> pulling on a tiny string till the garment was no longer wearable,

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> other behaviors. The celexa helped GREATLY!!! Most all of his

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> compulsions disappeared. BUT, about 1 1/2 wks. ago, out of the

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> bam! There they are again. He is obsessing about folding clothes

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> again, rearranging things, etc. It interferes so badly!! Like we

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> him for dinner at 5, and at 8:30, sometimes we are still trying to

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> get him up for dinner. This is happening often. So...my husband

and I

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> are having this " discussion " ...lol, about it. What are your

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> opinions/thoughts on this: is it " cruel " to give him a limited

time

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> and then say " dinner is over? " I struggle with this whole thing

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> because I feel it's like punishing someone for something they

can't

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> help/control. But my husband makes the point that it is our job to

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> help him learn to control it the best he can...and that he has to

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> have some " repurcussion " for not complying. I get that...I just

need

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> to hear others' thoughts, ideas, etc. Oh, and also, when I called

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> Dr. (Dr. Capone) about this, he gave me the choice of either

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> switching him to Lexapro (which I have no knowledge of) or

increasing

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> the celexa. I said let's just try an increase for now, since we

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> already have that med here at home. Still no improvement on the

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> increase, so next step will be to try Lexapro...but for now....and

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> hopefully we will get it back under control, but if we regress

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> again...I just wanted to hear other opinions on it...

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> , mom to w/ds, Angel w/ds, & Caitlyn, ADD crazy pre-

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