CBI said:
"Kimmer" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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I wish I could, but since I never saw the kid in question at his
worst I
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:can't give you specifics.
Didn't think so.
This isn't my child I'm talking about, and unlike some people I don't
pry into just what happens in people's lives. I'm not the kid's doctor
or his parent, so it's none of my damn business.
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:All I know is that this is a kid who was
diagnosed with ADHD, dyslexia, a few other learning disabilities,
and
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:was okay until more medications started to be added, mostly to
counteract side effects of the first medications. He attacked his
mother with a knife, which is what prompted them to send him away to
get
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:him straightened out. He was on a whole list of different
medications,
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:and the first thing the facility did was get him off of everything
to
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:see what his baseline behaviors and learning problems were. Then
they
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:dealt with those. He's now only on a couple of medications and is
attending regular high school and is active in other activities, and
is
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:functioning normally. A lot of the more serious problems started
when
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:more medications were added, which leads me to believe that drug
interactions were causing more problems.This anecdote doesn't support your claim.
What part doesn't support my claim? According to the boy's mother, the
most serious behavior problems started after more medications were piled
on top of what he was already taking. To me, that says interactions
between the new meds and his old ones were causing the problems.
Quoted message said:All you know is that he was
getting meds, got out of hand, was sent to a specialty center, was
given
Quoted message said:fewer and presumably different meds, and now is better. For all we
know he
Quoted message said:just needed his regimen changed and the meds that he was originally
taking,
Quoted message said:other then not being effective, had nothing to do with it.
Excuse me, but he was merely "out of hand" before the extra meds were
added, and things got worse by orders of magnitude - to most people,
trying to kill his mother was pretty extreme, especially in a child who
had never exhibited that kind of behavior before - when the new ones
were added without any change in his other ones.
I got my information from the kid's mother, who stated in no uncertain
terms that the more serious behavior problems, including coming after
her with a knife, started after new medications were added to his
already lengthy list of meds. If that isn't good enough for you, I'm
sorry. I tend to take the word of the boy's mother, who was closer to
the problem than I could ever be, that whatever treatment he was getting
obviously wasn't working. If he only "needed his regimen changed,", why
didn't the doc change it instead of merely piling on more meds, as
happened in this case???
Overmedication is a huge problem in this country, and maybe some people
should get out of the medical profession if they're just gonna take the
"easy way out" and treat side effects with more drugs that cause more
side effects instead of doing the hard work and trying to figure out
what would work.
Kimmer