re: what is the main symptom you are trying to contro?

[Guest guest]

Has your son been diagnosed with ADHD? Picking up all the energy from a group of kids and poking and touching and annoying other kids sounds like ADHD. Our son is like that and we have found that Concerta works really well for him. It calms him down and helps him with self-control. He is also very defiant and oppositional and after many trials of drugs we finally found one that has produced some improvement in this aspect – Abilify. The types of drugs that help with defiance and/or irritability are anti-psychotics and mood stabilizers. Ability is an anti-psychotic. Other drugs that may help with defiance and irritability are Lamictal, which is a mood stabilizer and Namenda, which was originally prescribed for Alzheimer’s. However, you should only start with one drug at a time; otherwise you don’t know which is causing what. Kay