Re: Med Increase

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Hi, Laurie, our son is on 60 mg. He has been on that for about 2 years

now. He is now 16, but was taking that dosage at 14.

He also had HUGE contamination issues. The CBT/ERP was amazing

concerning his contamination stuff. It got it under control for the

first time in his life. The medication did not get rid of the

contamination issues, just made them less anxiety producing. But ERP

made them seemingly disappear.

If your son is doing okay with the anxiety at 50 mg, and is able to do

the CBT/ERP, without too much upset. . If it were me, I would let the

therapy try to work at that point. But, if the anxiety related with

trying to do the therapy is hindering the process, you might have to

go up a bit more to be able to do the ERP exercises. You can always

lower it again later, once he gets past some of the worst of it

through therapy.

When our son worked on contamination stuff, it was probably the

hardest for him, at first, but once he got over the initial " stuff " of

it, he, amazingly, moved right along. Towards the end, he was placing

his hand in the garbage and not washing his hands. That sort of

freaked me out a little, but I kept my mouth shut and let him do the

work he needed to do. lol

BJ

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> Hi - my 13 yr old son's dr wants to increase his 50 mg of Celexa to 60

> mg but he is reluctant as he thinks it will be a lot of medicine (he

> takes the liquid form so it does look like quite a bit). I'm also a

> little concerned about the high dosage and just wondering if anyone

> else has a child that takes this dose of Celexa? He's been on Celexa

> for about 2 months (starting at 10 mg working up to the 50 for the

> past 3 weeks). We've seen a change and the thoughts have slowed down

> some allowing him to see some success in working on his CBT and

> challenging and stopping some arranging & counting rituals, but his

> contamination fears are still a bit high.

>

> Thanks,

> Laurie

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