Abilify help with aggression?

[Guest guest]

Hi, just wondering if anyone has had success with Abilify. I have a 6 year old

DS with AS. He is on Tegretol for seizures and 2 mg Abilify. It seemed to be

working great for a while, then the psych upped him to 4 mg. That made things

worse so we went back down to 2. Things were better. But all of a sudden last

week, he took a turn for the worse. . . not sure whether it has been the

transition back to school, or if it has to do with the meds, but he has become

very aggressive, confrontational and just plain mean and he is withdrawing

socially. It's like he's back to where he was before he started the meds. Not

sure what to do but yesterday he hit his friend in the eye with the remote

control for his spy car and I worry so much about this kind of aggression. I

have other children and I hate to admit that I am beginning to fear for their

safety.

[Guest guest]

Abilify was a nightmare for us -- actually caused a couple of seizures.  If you are seeing an increase in aggression, I would def talk to your dr.  That being said, we have had a tough week with the transition back to school so maybe that's what it is.  We had an increase of physical aggression this week plus several general meltdowns.

HTH, E.V. Downey (Charlie, almost 9, AS, anxiety, tic disorder)On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 6:06 PM, texaslonghorns_1 <sheridacon@...> wrote:

 

Hi, just wondering if anyone has had success with Abilify. I have a 6 year old DS with AS. He is on Tegretol for seizures and 2 mg Abilify. It seemed to be working great for a while, then the psych upped him to 4 mg. That made things worse so we went back down to 2. Things were better. But all of a sudden last week, he took a turn for the worse. . . not sure whether it has been the transition back to school, or if it has to do with the meds, but he has become very aggressive, confrontational and just plain mean and he is withdrawing socially. It's like he's back to where he was before he started the meds. Not sure what to do but yesterday he hit his friend in the eye with the remote control for his spy car and I worry so much about this kind of aggression. I have other children and I hate to admit that I am beginning to fear for their safety.

[Guest guest]

Don't know if it is coincidental or not, but that also happened with my daughter and abilify. great for almost 10 months and then increased aggression, seizures, confrontational and withdrawn. At that time she was 13-14. She also gained 40 lbs. But the first 10 months she was the ideal child behaviorally. From: EV Downey <dcmusicteacher@...> Sent: Sun, January 9, 2011 8:59:23 PMSubject: Re: ( ) Abilify help with aggression?

Abilify was a nightmare for us -- actually caused a couple of seizures. If you are seeing an increase in aggression, I would def talk to your dr. That being said, we have had a tough week with the transition back to school so maybe that's what it is. We had an increase of physical aggression this week plus several general meltdowns.

HTH, E.V. Downey (Charlie, almost 9, AS, anxiety, tic disorder)On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 6:06 PM, texaslonghorns_1 <sheridacon@...> wrote:

Hi, just wondering if anyone has had success with Abilify. I have a 6 year old DS with AS. He is on Tegretol for seizures and 2 mg Abilify. It seemed to be working great for a while, then the psych upped him to 4 mg. That made things worse so we went back down to 2. Things were better. But all of a sudden last week, he took a turn for the worse. . . not sure whether it has been the transition back to school, or if it has to do with the meds, but he has become very aggressive, confrontational and just plain mean and he is withdrawing socially. It's like he's back to where he was before he started the meds. Not sure what to do but yesterday he hit his friend in the eye with the remote control for his spy car and I worry so much about this kind of aggression. I have other children and I hate to admit that I am beginning to fear for their safety.

[Guest guest]

Hi,

My psych. put my ds on Abilify 2mg to stabilize his mood swings. At first it was ok (like you say) buy quickly Dylan changed-more temper tantrums and worse ones, way more OCD and anxiety. Fighting with family seemed like all day. It was so obviously the wwrong med for him that we stopped it. Nothing has replaced it yet, but he's back at his baseline, no better, no worse.

Cathleen

From: texaslonghorns_1 <sheridacon@...> Sent: Sun, January 9, 2011 3:06:44 PMSubject: ( ) Abilify help with aggression?

Hi, just wondering if anyone has had success with Abilify. I have a 6 year old DS with AS. He is on Tegretol for seizures and 2 mg Abilify. It seemed to be working great for a while, then the psych upped him to 4 mg. That made things worse so we went back down to 2. Things were better. But all of a sudden last week, he took a turn for the worse. . . not sure whether it has been the transition back to school, or if it has to do with the meds, but he has become very aggressive, confrontational and just plain mean and he is withdrawing socially. It's like he's back to where he was before he started the meds. Not sure what to do but yesterday he hit his friend in the eye with the remote control for his spy car and I worry so much about this kind of aggression. I have other children and I hate to admit that I am beginning to fear for their safety.

[Guest guest]

Abilify also has some severe withdrawal effects when the dose is lowered or

stopped. They can go on for weeks (we saw our son's withdrawal symptoms as

defiance).

Leah

[Guest guest]

I am so sorry to hear this struggle. This is a short summary paper on medication

and autism spectrum disorders. Dr. Hollander has a more in depth book on

" Clinical Treatment of Autism " . There is all the results of clinical trials of

the major classes of medications for

ASD kids and the side effects of each.

Dr. Hollander prescribes the anti-convulstant class of meds

for ASD kids as a mood stabilzer and autism but does not seem to be a big fan of

the antipyschotic drugs. He writes that there is not

enough evidence yet in reducing autism symptoms with this class

of medications and there need to be more trials in both areas.

Pam

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> Hi, just wondering if anyone has had success with Abilify. I have a 6 year

old DS with AS. He is on Tegretol for seizures and 2 mg Abilify. It seemed to

be working great for a while, then the psych upped him to 4 mg. That made

things worse so we went back down to 2. Things were better. But all of a

sudden last week, he took a turn for the worse. . . not sure whether it has been

the transition back to school, or if it has to do with the meds, but he has

become very aggressive, confrontational and just plain mean and he is

withdrawing socially. It's like he's back to where he was before he started the

meds. Not sure what to do but yesterday he hit his friend in the eye with the

remote control for his spy car and I worry so much about this kind of

aggression. I have other children and I hate to admit that I am beginning to

fear for their safety.

>

[Guest guest]

I agree, we saw defiance go up and he started bad temper tantrums

From: mommiestgirl02 <mommiestgirl02@...> Sent: Tue, January 11, 2011 12:11:32 PMSubject: ( ) Re: Abilify help with aggression?

Abilify also has some severe withdrawal effects when the dose is lowered or stopped. They can go on for weeks (we saw our son's withdrawal symptoms as defiance). Leah