Guest guest Posted December 22, 2008 Report Share Posted December 22, 2008 Hi Laurie, Our son is on celexa, only 20mg, but I know they can go as high as 60mg with kids and 80mg with adults. Often it's the higher doses that impact the OCD most. Also say three months at the optimal dose once it's reached gives most results. The contamination stuff can be harder to challenge we found. Need to start small and work up to big stuff usually. Although ours got so fed up at one point he just flooded himself with these fears. Once they reach a level of stability with medication,and if they understand the CBT and are ready it seems they can more easily work on it. Often takes time though. Hope the increase helps this. Warmly, Barb > > 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 > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 22, 2008 Report Share Posted December 22, 2008 was on Celexa in 9th and 10th grades. It was around 50mg. If I recall correctly, he's 19 now. I know we upped it 10mg and didn't see any more improvement after a month or so, so went back down to previous dosage. It was really about the 16th week that I began to see it really kick in. And another person on Celexa (in a Celexa yahoo group) had said the same thing for them. So maybe if your son will be patient a bit longer? However, " to each his own " on dosage, we are all so individual in how we respond and the dosage needed, etc. It does look like a lot, my son took the liquid too. > > 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 > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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