RE: Re: Do we have a right as parents.

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How old is your daughter now?

Regards, melody

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Subject: Re: ( ) Re: Do we have a right as parents.

My AS dd was taking prozac for almost 2 yrs. She said it made her feel like

a robot and at some point she was having suicidal thoughts. She stopped on her

own. Her OCD, anxiety is high but she is trying to manage as well as she can. I

wish she would accept to try another med but she absolutely refuses.

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From: " Melody "

Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 03:26:33 -0000

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Subject: ( ) Re: Do we have a right as parents.

i this true? many psychiatrists will not

medicate a child with AS. this is the first i have heard of this. where i live

in central california, the doctors have been pushing the meds and am shocked

that i wanted to wait. i think our aspie knowlege as a community is weak,

certainly our services are. social skills groups are non-existent.

i am presently struggling with the med issue for my 12yo aspie daughter because

of her anxiety. i finally realized that she needs the help and so we gave

paxil, 10mg a go. i noticed the next day her footsteps changed from soft, light

and careful to hard, fast and loud. she began running into corners and

ultimately broke her arm on day 4. she spent the following 5 weeks sick with

flus, bronchitis, pink eye, tonsilitis, sinusitis to name a few. she had

horrible reaction to the antibiotics making healing difficult. her anxiety did

not change, or maybe there was so much else going on i couldn't notice. we

stopped the paxil after 5 weeks and the psych prescribed prozac. he felt her

changes/illness were not due to the meds. i told him i wanted to wait until

summer when she would be out of school because if the paxil contributed to her

being sick, i didn't want her to miss so much school.

please let me know. have most of your kids had similar reactions? or please

share your adverse reaction stories. is there any med in particular that seems

to work well for the our aspies?

regards, melody k.

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> > > > Do we have a right as parents to make such radical

decisions? To put an innocent child on heavy medication, mind altering drugs -

which puts them into a stupor - a good behavior stupor. so that we can manage

them and teach them, and develop into model people with model behavior. so they

can mimic the NT world? Okay, that's the negative way of looking at it. now for

the positive side: minimizing the stimming and tantrums, nit-pickiness, curt

responses and chutzpah, in order to help them focus and bring out the real true

sweet side of your child's personality.

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> > > > I'm obviously facing this fork in the road, and cannot

sleep at night! This, after 5 professional 'second' opinions! Not to mention,

fancy top-notch Manhattan doctors!

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> > > > Agggggggggggggggggggggg!

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