Hi Christine, we used to post on the BP board too remember?!!
Amy knows far more than she realises. It's called experience, sigh!
Liam was dx with mood disorder-nos at age 4 (finally after breaking an acoustic guitar over his Dad's back with no antecedent). He was put on trileptal (antiseizure med) with minimal affect, then abilify which worked but he had immense weight gain (unusual with abilify but it can happen), then geodon and finally lithium. The latter two caused weight gain, bed wetting and extreme sleepiness; Liam just wasn't Liam anymore.
I had always suspected Autism with Liam (family history and I read) but was poo pooed by a dev ped and neuropsychologist, and EI (found out later where the latter two practised ADHD was the dx of choice for HF kids many times anyway-which is what he got from them).
We stuck with the private ped pdoc and after we moved out of state the school had Liam dx with ASD within 6 weeks; I am not kidding! I had been begging for a real psych eval from the schools in MD, but it took suburban Atlanta to get it right. It turns out Liam is comorbid, HF Autism/ADHD/BP-NOS. He needs med for the latter two, and right now focalin xr works for the adhd and seroquel for the bp (risperdal funked out after a year and caused weight gain again).
He was on straight ritilin briefly but had absent seizures on it; he was on it for 3 days.
Unfortunately, comorbid dx are part and parcel of ASD. Now though, on seroquel and focalin xr he's pretty stable. Still we still see some cycling, just not nearly as bad, kwim?
Hi,
Well I am not Amy and I don't believe my boys have Bi-Polar but they do have mood disorders definetly.
We started Chris out with Risperadol, he did well for so many months with it.
Christina-
You have a great memory!
Hi Christine,
we used to post on the BP board too remember?!!
Amy knows far more than she realises. It's called experience, sigh!
Liam was dx with mood disorder-nos at age 4 (finally after breaking an acoustic guitar over his Dad's back with no antecedent). He was put on trileptal (antiseizure med) with minimal affect, then abilify which worked but he had immense weight gain (unusual with abilify but it can happen), then geodon and finally lithium. The latter two caused weight gain, bed wetting and extreme sleepiness; Liam just wasn't Liam anymore.
I had always suspected Autism with Liam (family history and I read) but was poo pooed by a dev ped and neuropsychologist, and EI (found out later where the latter two practised ADHD was the dx of choice for HF kids many times anyway-which is what he got from them).
We stuck with the private ped pdoc and after we moved out of state the school had Liam dx with ASD within 6 weeks; I am not kidding! I had been begging for a real psych eval from the schools in MD, but it took suburban Atlanta to get it right. It turns out Liam is comorbid, HF Autism/ADHD/BP-NOS. He needs med for the latter two, and right now focalin xr works for the adhd and seroquel for the bp (risperdal funked out after a year and caused weight gain again).
He was on straight ritilin briefly but had absent seizures on it; he was on it for 3 days.
Unfortunately, comorbid dx are part and parcel of ASD. Now though, on seroquel and focalin xr he's pretty stable. Still we still see some cycling, just not nearly as bad, kwim?
Let me know if you have any other questions?
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Edited 2/26/2008 9:50 pm ET by roanmom