Guest guest Posted December 16, 2006 Report Share Posted December 16, 2006 I was wondering if anybody could help me here. My son whois 7 has been on prozac for the past few weeks. We are trying to help reduce his self stimulatory behaviors among other things. We started at a very low dose and have been increasing it slowly since we were seeing no positive reactions and perhaps some more cstimming. Now we upped it today to 10 mg's and he is just crazy, very hyper,stimmy, seeking sensory imput like crazy. I was just wondedring what is thenormal dose to be on to see if this will work? isd this a normal way things should progress? Is there still hope that it would help? When do we say that its enough and this medicine doews not work? thanks for your help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 17, 2006 Report Share Posted December 17, 2006 How often is prozac dosed and what time of day to be most effective? Also, has anyone had success with it or another SSRI for an ASD kid who has great difficulty being able to " process " and function in an overly stimulating environment, like a regular pre-school, my son gets all hyped up and unable to focus in larger groups with more noise, more sensory input, but functions much more normally in small groups of 2 or 3. He also has OCD tendencies, in that, he gets attached to certain items, (current one is cell phones, cameras, gadgets of this sort), he demands to look at everybody's, its really difficult to have him anywhere as these items are on everybody. Thanks for any comment, Re: prozac >Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 07:16:18 -0000 > >Hi -- My son has been on the entire range of SSRI's, including prozac. > It sounds to me like Prozac is not the right SSRI for your child. > >It's normal to see some temporary spaciness and a temporary increase >in *OCD-type* behaviors and/or speech when a child starts an SSRI, and >each time the dose is increased, but hyper-ness and crazy >self-stimming behavior is NOT good. Believe me, we went through the >exact same thing you're describing, only it was with Zoloft. We went >through all the SSRI's until settling on Celexa. SSRI's are very >tricky to get " just right " . I would ask for a change ASAP. > >HTH, > >Donna > > > > > > > I was wondering if anybody could help me here. My son whois 7 has been > > on prozac for the past few weeks. We are trying to help reduce his > > self stimulatory behaviors among other things. We started at a very > > low dose and have been increasing it slowly since we were seeing no > > positive reactions and perhaps some more cstimming. Now we upped it > > today to 10 mg's and he is just crazy, very hyper,stimmy, seeking > > sensory imput like crazy. I was just wondedring what is thenormal dose > > to be on to see if this will work? isd this a normal way things should > > progress? Is there still hope that it would help? When do we say that > > its enough and this medicine doews not work? thanks for your help. > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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