distractability and fidgeting - could Zoloft cause this?

[Guest guest]

My son was diagnoses with ocd last year. It started when 2nd grade

began. His 2nd grade teacher described him as the model student.

This year he behaves hyper-kinetic, distracted, and a little bit

goofy/irritating. His third grade teacher is very understanding and

knowledgable about OCD(family member has it). She says if she didn't

know better she would have pegged him as an ADD kid but finds it

difficult to seperate his OCD/anxiety from attentional issues. He has

been on Zoloft for 14 months. Could the med be responsible for this

change of behavior? My husband even notices the difference at Boy

scout meetings. He suffers no more from intrusive thoughts or any OCD

thanks to 50mg of Zoloft and CBT so we are lucky in that respect...but

we worry about what else the meds may be doing? I've searched the

literature and found nothing...but thought someone might have some

anecdotal evidence that this may happen.

[Guest guest]

Hi, my daughter had many OCD issues at 7 so the first med we tried was

Zoloft. She felt better and happy within 5 days and seemed so much more upbeat,

however,...it activated her. She appeared ADHD as all of a sudden she was

blurting things out, jumping up and down on her bed at nightime and couldn't

settle down. We knew it was the zoloft. So we switched to Lexapro and combined

with CBT, she has no OCD symptoms currently and she has been on Lexapro for 1

1/2 years. People react so differently to meds that what works for 1 person

doesn't for another and it is a lot of trial and error. Sue

[Guest guest]

My 11 year old was diagnosed w/ocd 1 year ago and then put on

Zoloft. It seemed to help w/the depression on the low dose (25mg)

but then as we upped it he became actived by it. He would get out of

control, run around the house harrassing people. He had a crazed

look in his eyes. Then he started cutting himself with knives. The

p-doc took him off the Zoloft (he was on 100mg by then) cold turkey

and had him take abilify as needed for agitation(he took it 3 0r 4

times).

That all happened in June of this year. He has not been back on any

meds and is doing well. Sometimes he gets a little out of control

but it's easier to get him back.

>

> My son was diagnoses with ocd last year. It started when 2nd

grade

> began. His 2nd grade teacher described him as the model student.

> This year he behaves hyper-kinetic, distracted, and a little bit

> goofy/irritating. His third grade teacher is very understanding

and

> knowledgable about OCD(family member has it). She says if she

didn't

> know better she would have pegged him as an ADD kid but finds it

> difficult to seperate his OCD/anxiety from attentional issues. He

has

> been on Zoloft for 14 months. Could the med be responsible for

this

> change of behavior? My husband even notices the difference at Boy

> scout meetings. He suffers no more from intrusive thoughts or any

OCD

> thanks to 50mg of Zoloft and CBT so we are lucky in that

respect...but

> we worry about what else the meds may be doing? I've searched the

> literature and found nothing...but thought someone might have some

> anecdotal evidence that this may happen.

>

[Guest guest]

Wow Laurie! I don't have any answers for you but I thought I was

reading my own post for a minute! We're going through the SAME EXACT

thing right now. My son is also in 3rd grade and has been described

as a model student every year until this one. His teacher actually

suggested having him tested for ADHD at fall conferences. She also

has an immediate family member with OCD so she has a good grasp on

how anxiety can make kids behave. I was caught so completely off

guard by her marking him down so much in everything because he

is " distracted and fidgety " I didn't even know how to respond. I

know he's been worried about germs and kids going home sick, coming

back the next day and then touching things he has to touch. So it

very well could be that he's just anxious. Or just wigglier this

year because he is a boy and he is eight! so hard to know!! He has

also been on 50 mg of zoloft for about 18 months, I was wondering if

it could be that the ssri just makes him " not care " as much about

being a " model student " ? We upped his zoloft to 75 mg a few weeks

ago and so far I've seen no difference (good or bad!). He has an

appt with his pdoc tomorrow so I'll ask her if there could be a

relationship between the distractability and zoloft. I'll let you

know what she says!

Let me ask you this - are you seeing the same behavior at home? I

don't!

le

[Guest guest]

2nd grader here - dd- no meds though and sounds the same lately?????

Quoting dmbodziak <dmbodziak@...>:

> Wow Laurie! I don't have any answers for you but I thought I was

> reading my own post for a minute! We're going through the SAME EXACT

> thing right now. My son is also in 3rd grade and has been described

> as a model student every year until this one. His teacher actually

> suggested having him tested for ADHD at fall conferences. She also

> has an immediate family member with OCD so she has a good grasp on

> how anxiety can make kids behave. I was caught so completely off

> guard by her marking him down so much in everything because he

> is " distracted and fidgety " I didn't even know how to respond. I

> know he's been worried about germs and kids going home sick, coming

> back the next day and then touching things he has to touch. So it

> very well could be that he's just anxious. Or just wigglier this

> year because he is a boy and he is eight! so hard to know!! He has

> also been on 50 mg of zoloft for about 18 months, I was wondering if

> it could be that the ssri just makes him " not care " as much about

> being a " model student " ? We upped his zoloft to 75 mg a few weeks

> ago and so far I've seen no difference (good or bad!). He has an

> appt with his pdoc tomorrow so I'll ask her if there could be a

> relationship between the distractability and zoloft. I'll let you

> know what she says!

> Let me ask you this - are you seeing the same behavior at home? I

> don't!

>

> le

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

I had posted about dd being the same jumping on the bed lately and

everything! I was thinking the inositol maybe????

eileen

Quoting sbwesterfield@...:

> Hi, my daughter had many OCD issues at 7 so the first med we tried was

> Zoloft. She felt better and happy within 5 days and seemed so much

> more upbeat,

> however,...it activated her. She appeared ADHD as all of a sudden she was

> blurting things out, jumping up and down on her bed at nightime and couldn't

> settle down. We knew it was the zoloft. So we switched to Lexapro

> and combined

> with CBT, she has no OCD symptoms currently and she has been on

> Lexapro for 1

> 1/2 years. People react so differently to meds that what works for 1 person

> doesn't for another and it is a lot of trial and error. Sue

>

>

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