I feel sometimes that doctors are too fast to place your child on yet another medication. It is very hard to find the right mix that works for your child, for every child reacts differently to medication.
The other factor is the sinking feeling of is the medication prescribed really helping my child? I have found myself in this boat unfortunately or fortunately, I'm not sure which at this point.
My bp sons medication is not working again, he is still having aggression issues and severe temper tantrums. His aggression seems to be on the rise since the doctor eliminated the amantadine from his mixtures of meds. Yesterday the doctor prescribed abilify to replace resperdol, the thought of the side effects of this medication is just too scary for me to administer it to my child. John does not have suicidal thoughts and I am not going to administer a med to my child that may or may not cause these side effects.
I guess the red flag to this was when the pharmacist asked why is your doctor prescribing this medication for your son; he is not old enough to take this? The pharmacist thought I should reconsider the use of this medication.
So last night I decided to take the holistic approach and starting treating my son with natural remedies, of course I am doing this with a physician's directions.
The doctor eliminated the clonidine and the resperdol for John's medication. John is now taking the amantadine to help control the rages he is taking a 1/2 tsp. in the morning and at night. John started 1200 mg. of fish oil today and will take it daily, the doctor feels his system may have a deficiency of omega 3. We are increasing his daily vitamin of B 12 and B6 he will be taking this with his normal daily vitamins.
Sometimes are body does not have enough of vitamins or omega 3 in our diet and when this occurs it can cause the body to have unstable results such as symptoms of bipolar disease, adhd, or many other concerns.
I will be keeping a journal of how the changes effects him, I feel this is a more healthy approach for John since the medications are not helping him. We may need to add St. John's Wort to the holistic medicine, but we will do this slowly for we can monitor the changes of the vitamins added.
I will keep you posted as we journey down this road. I hope the journey is the right one.
