Prozac

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> Do you use a fat burner while taking prozac? I am wondering cause I

> take wellbutrin SR and was wondering if you had any side affects. I

> haven't had any so far.

Hi , I don't use any fat burners or supplements right now. But that

is a good question! You may check with your doctor.

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> Do you use a fat burner while taking prozac? I am wondering cause I

> take wellbutrin SR and was wondering if you had any side affects. I

> haven't had any so far.

Hi , I don't use any fat burners or supplements right now. But that

is a good question! You may check with your doctor.

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Since prozac is a selective serratonin reuptake inhibitor, try doing a

websearch on serratonin. You'll find quite a bit of info on it's role in brain

function, behavior, health and emotions and could possible see if those apply to

your child. I was amazed at the wide range of symptoms.

Gaylen

[Guest guest]

Since prozac is a selective serratonin reuptake inhibitor, try doing a

websearch on serratonin. You'll find quite a bit of info on it's role in brain

function, behavior, health and emotions and could possible see if those apply to

your child. I was amazed at the wide range of symptoms.

Gaylen

[Guest guest]

Theresa has a good point on the importance of knowing what you are targeting

with a med or any treatment for that matter but I did want to mention that my

son's experience with a SSRI was actually surprisingly different than what we

had expected. In addition to other lesser symptoms, the problem we were

targeting were his periods of " stuck brain " where he'd want to ask the same

question or make the same comment over and over again. It did help that some

but it

had a remarkable affect on his racing thoughts. He has said that since

starting Paxil, his brain is " quieter " so he can concentrate better. Now,

things we

thought were due to hyperactivity (difficulty sitting still and

concentrating, leaping from subject to subject, poor attention span) appear to

have been

more due to his racing thoughts. It has also helped signifcantly with overall

comprehension and fine motor and made him less sensorily over stimulated.

Gaylen

[Guest guest]

Theresa has a good point on the importance of knowing what you are targeting

with a med or any treatment for that matter but I did want to mention that my

son's experience with a SSRI was actually surprisingly different than what we

had expected. In addition to other lesser symptoms, the problem we were

targeting were his periods of " stuck brain " where he'd want to ask the same

question or make the same comment over and over again. It did help that some

but it

had a remarkable affect on his racing thoughts. He has said that since

starting Paxil, his brain is " quieter " so he can concentrate better. Now,

things we

thought were due to hyperactivity (difficulty sitting still and

concentrating, leaping from subject to subject, poor attention span) appear to

have been

more due to his racing thoughts. It has also helped signifcantly with overall

comprehension and fine motor and made him less sensorily over stimulated.

Gaylen

[Guest guest]

My son (5yo) has been on a Prozac & Conserta combo for about 8 months. We

love it. The prozac targets the anxiety. How do we know he had anxiety? We

guessed and chose to give it a try and see if it worked. It did for us We saw

and improvement in his behaviors (the behaviors that seem to come out of

frustration decreased) and an improvement in his speech. That improvement, we

believe, was because he isn't so anxious, he is able to slow down a little bit

and his mind has time to put it together. We new what we were targeting from

the get go, so we were able to evaluate the results.

If you decide to try it talk to your doc., and together work out specifically

what your targeting. Then keep a behavior log and you will be able to evaluate

weather or not you are seeing results. So many times Dr's just delve out meds

without sharing with the parents what they are targeting and no one ever knows

if it's working or not. I'm also very happy with the conserta. was on it

many months before we added the prozac. Don't try both at the same time, as you

will not know which med is causing results.

Bright Blessings to you and yours,

Theresa Cutler

theresa.cutler@...

480-969-7800 phone

480-969-7900 fax

May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you

strong, enough sorrow to keep you human, enough hope to make you happy. The

happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make

the most of everything that comes along their way.

prozac

does anybody in this group tried prozac for your children? i have a

10 year old autistic boy and my doctor recommended this treatment,

any information that you can give me would be greatly appreciated.

thanks

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[Guest guest]

My son (5yo) has been on a Prozac & Conserta combo for about 8 months. We

love it. The prozac targets the anxiety. How do we know he had anxiety? We

guessed and chose to give it a try and see if it worked. It did for us We saw

and improvement in his behaviors (the behaviors that seem to come out of

frustration decreased) and an improvement in his speech. That improvement, we

believe, was because he isn't so anxious, he is able to slow down a little bit

and his mind has time to put it together. We new what we were targeting from

the get go, so we were able to evaluate the results.

If you decide to try it talk to your doc., and together work out specifically

what your targeting. Then keep a behavior log and you will be able to evaluate

weather or not you are seeing results. So many times Dr's just delve out meds

without sharing with the parents what they are targeting and no one ever knows

if it's working or not. I'm also very happy with the conserta. was on it

many months before we added the prozac. Don't try both at the same time, as you

will not know which med is causing results.

Bright Blessings to you and yours,

Theresa Cutler

theresa.cutler@...

480-969-7800 phone

480-969-7900 fax

May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you

strong, enough sorrow to keep you human, enough hope to make you happy. The

happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make

the most of everything that comes along their way.

prozac

does anybody in this group tried prozac for your children? i have a

10 year old autistic boy and my doctor recommended this treatment,

any information that you can give me would be greatly appreciated.

thanks

Unlocking Autism

www.UnlockingAutism.org

Autism-Awareness-Action

Worldwide internet group for parents who have a

child with AUTISM.

SeekingJoyinDisability - Prayer support for those touched by Disability:

SeekingJoyinDisability/

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In a message dated 1/31/2004 1:26:27 PM Central Standard Time,

alegarza2004@... writes:

does anybody in this group tried prozac for your children? i have a

10 year old autistic boy and my doctor recommended this treatment,

any information that you can give me would be greatly appreciated.

thanks

We tried switching to Prozac for our daughter (8) for a few months this past

fall. We were unhappy with the results and switched back to her old med.

Her diagnosis falls between Asperger's and PDD/NOS. She has been on another

SSRI (Luvox) since age 5 1/2. We were targeting very high anxiety levels that

caused her to develop Obsessive Compulsive Disorder severe enough to

interfere with her ability to function, and caused her to have nightmares 5-6

times a

night.

The Luvox worked well for 2 years with no side effects, but for several

months recently she had slowly increasing insomnia. The psychiatrist (he did

his

fellowship in Asperger's Syndrome) thought that maybe she was becoming

depressed. He recommended switching to Prozac because it has a tiny difference

in

formula that targets depression along with anxiety. (Prozac generic is

fluvoxatine, Luvox generic is fluvoxamine) After 3 months we looked at our

behavior

log, got input from her teachers, and we decided to switch her back to

fluvoxamine (Luvox). Once she calmed down we were able to correct the insomnia

with

behavior modification.

BAD OBSERVATIONS:Our daughter experienced extreme mood swings on Prozac, lots

of emotional outbursts and a tendency to cry uncontrollably. Then her

insomnia began to increase badly. Also increased were incidents of temper,

stimming, and opposition to authority. The doctor had her on a Prozac dosage of

20

mg/day.

GOOD OBSERVATIONS: Use of creativity and imagination obviously increased.

During this period she wrote 2 of the funniest stories she's ever done, and was

able tor the first time to brainstorm ideas without stopping at the first one

she had and refusing to try for more.

If you would like more info on Luvox and its effect on our daughter you're

welcome to write me privately. I hope this helps, good luck!

Sandi

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In a message dated 1/31/2004 1:26:27 PM Central Standard Time,

alegarza2004@... writes:

does anybody in this group tried prozac for your children? i have a

10 year old autistic boy and my doctor recommended this treatment,

any information that you can give me would be greatly appreciated.

thanks

We tried switching to Prozac for our daughter (8) for a few months this past

fall. We were unhappy with the results and switched back to her old med.

Her diagnosis falls between Asperger's and PDD/NOS. She has been on another

SSRI (Luvox) since age 5 1/2. We were targeting very high anxiety levels that

caused her to develop Obsessive Compulsive Disorder severe enough to

interfere with her ability to function, and caused her to have nightmares 5-6

times a

night.

The Luvox worked well for 2 years with no side effects, but for several

months recently she had slowly increasing insomnia. The psychiatrist (he did

his

fellowship in Asperger's Syndrome) thought that maybe she was becoming

depressed. He recommended switching to Prozac because it has a tiny difference

in

formula that targets depression along with anxiety. (Prozac generic is

fluvoxatine, Luvox generic is fluvoxamine) After 3 months we looked at our

behavior

log, got input from her teachers, and we decided to switch her back to

fluvoxamine (Luvox). Once she calmed down we were able to correct the insomnia

with

behavior modification.

BAD OBSERVATIONS:Our daughter experienced extreme mood swings on Prozac, lots

of emotional outbursts and a tendency to cry uncontrollably. Then her

insomnia began to increase badly. Also increased were incidents of temper,

stimming, and opposition to authority. The doctor had her on a Prozac dosage of

20

mg/day.

GOOD OBSERVATIONS: Use of creativity and imagination obviously increased.

During this period she wrote 2 of the funniest stories she's ever done, and was

able tor the first time to brainstorm ideas without stopping at the first one

she had and refusing to try for more.

If you would like more info on Luvox and its effect on our daughter you're

welcome to write me privately. I hope this helps, good luck!

Sandi

[Guest guest]

My personal thoughts are to try without the meds if he is not in crisis mode.

At least this way, you will know. The meds will always be there if you decide

they are in your son's best interest, but it may be possible he doesn't need

them.

My son, age 12 had his first ocd symptoms at age 7. He was in counseling for

2 yrs, every other week, but after just a little bit his ocd symptoms subsided 9

(stayed in counseling for anxiety/social skills). Again, at age 10 he had a

flare up for about a month, then it tapered off. He is now 12 and is

asymptomatic. He has never been on meds, though they were prescribed. Will he

ever need them? possibly, but we have dodged five years of him not being

medicated and doing just fine. If he had been on the meds, we would have

attributed his wellness to the meds, when in reality for him, he just seems to

peak with the symptoms once in a while.

Good luck!

in TN

uberdawn <karen.schanck@...> wrote:

Just took our 7 y/o son (just diagnosed w/OCD a month or so ago) for a

med. eval.today. The child psychiatrist prescribed Prozac (10mg).

's OCD symptoms have decreased over the past week or so and he's

definitely not in the same crisis mode he was during the 1st couple of

weeks. I don't know whether we should just continue w/the therapy

(weekly w/OCD child psychologist) alone without the meds since he's not

actively in crisis or if we should do the meds plus the therapy. (He

also recommended that we have a CPT evaluation to assess for ADD in

addition to the OCD.) Any thoughts re: Prozac?

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In a message dated 5/16/2007 10:28:33 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,

karen.schanck@... writes:

The child psychiatrist prescribed Prozac (10mg).

's OCD symptoms have decreased over the past week or so and he's

definitely not in the same crisis mode he was during the 1st couple of

weeks. I don't know whether we should just continue w/the therapy

(weekly w/OCD child psychologist) alone without the meds since he's not

actively in crisis

I haven't posted much lately (too much going on in life right now), but I

have still been lurking & checking out subject lines. Absolutely - if your

child is doing well with therapy alone, there is no need for meds at all. Meds

are there for when therapy alone isn't working & your child is having a hard

time getting through the day - school - etc. Also, don't necessarily think

of meds as a permanent thing. If, one day, your son needs meds to help ease

the anxiety & help him function - that doesn't mean he'll be on them forever.

My dd 16yrs now (14 when diagnosed) went on Prozac (also 10mg/day to start

out) about 2 months after we found out it was OCD. Unfortunately, it was

another 6 months or so before we actually found a therapist trained &

experienced

in ERP & CBT. So she went without proper therapy for quite a while. During

that time, we continued to up the Prozac by only 10mg each appt.... about

every 6-8 weeks. Going slowly is the key with Prozac. Let their little bodies

adjust to the meds & be sure they aren't going to encounter any side

effects.... anyway, she capped out at 50mg/day. That was the magic level for

her.

Practically every sign of OCD had virtually disappeared at that level. We

noticed improvements along the way.... but that all but wiped it out. Of

course, by that time, we only had a couple appts with the therapist we found.

By

the 3rd appt, she said there were really no symptoms for her to work with any

more due to the meds working so well.

We all decided to slowly back off the meds... again, 10mg each visit &

monitor her. If/when symptoms started to return, we would pick up with

therapy.

She's still on 20mg/day..... but with no return of symptoms. Our therapist

said it's not unusual for this to happen, but not too common either. We're

blessed. I'm waiting to keep her at 20mg through the summer & start of school

- lots of emotional things going on the next few months, so I just thought a

little extra help in dealing with stress can't be bad, right???

I hope this information helped.

LT

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[Guest guest]

A nice low dose of Prozac (10 mg. is low) would probably help to take the

edge off so he can focus more on doing some of the exercises. I've got 2 kids

on meds. My 12 y.o. is on 40 mg of prozac (she started at 10 mg. when she

was 10; also on trazadone, busbar, and risperdal), and my 15 y.o. used to be

on prozac but switched to Luvox. Having gone thru my share of OCD crises,

including 3 hospitalizations with my 15 yr old when she was 11 -- I'm all for

doing what you can to AVOID another crisis!! Good luck! Suzanne in CA

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Hello -

Has anyone found that Prozac (or any other SSRI) has helped their children with

autism? My son was on 30 mg of Prozac and we increased it to 40 mg. to see if

we see any improvement with his anxiety, OCD, etc. He's been on the increased

dosage for about a month now and I can not say that I've noticed any

improvements...he still runs around the house closing all the doors, drawers,

cabinets (he has to have things closed) and he still is very impatient when it

comes to waiting..still some meltdowns, etc - .no improvements that I can see.

I honestly don't like having him on this medication.

Thanks,

Debbie

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They say if there is no wow factor...then it's probably the wrong med. If you take him off of it...you should wean him slowly off of it.From: warwick51197 <dmwarwick@...>Subject: Prozacautism Date: Tuesday, January 17, 2012, 9:55 PM

Hello -

Has anyone found that Prozac (or any other SSRI) has helped their children with autism? My son was on 30 mg of Prozac and we increased it to 40 mg. to see if we see any improvement with his anxiety, OCD, etc. He's been on the increased dosage for about a month now and I can not say that I've noticed any improvements...he still runs around the house closing all the doors, drawers, cabinets (he has to have things closed) and he still is very impatient when it comes to waiting..still some meltdowns, etc - .no improvements that I can see. I honestly don't like having him on this medication.

Thanks,

Debbie

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We have had a great deal of success using Catapris  as an anti anxiety Kate MyersOn Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 11:55 PM, warwick51197 <dmwarwick@...> wrote:

 

Hello -

Has anyone found that Prozac (or any other SSRI) has helped their children with autism? My son was on 30 mg of Prozac and we increased it to 40 mg. to see if we see any improvement with his anxiety, OCD, etc. He's been on the increased dosage for about a month now and I can not say that I've noticed any improvements...he still runs around the house closing all the doors, drawers, cabinets (he has to have things closed) and he still is very impatient when it comes to waiting..still some meltdowns, etc - .no improvements that I can see. I honestly don't like having him on this medication.

Thanks,

Debbie

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Hi My son takes Sertraline (Zoloft). It helps a little with his OCD - but makes

him much more aggressive. Thats why we have to manage on 50mg. If he takes 100mg

his violence becomes much worse.

>

> Hello -

> Has anyone found that Prozac (or any other SSRI) has helped their children

with autism? My son was on 30 mg of Prozac and we increased it to 40 mg. to see

if we see any improvement with his anxiety, OCD, etc. He's been on the

increased dosage for about a month now and I can not say that I've noticed any

improvements...he still runs around the house closing all the doors, drawers,

cabinets (he has to have things closed) and he still is very impatient when it

comes to waiting..still some meltdowns, etc - .no improvements that I can see.

I honestly don't like having him on this medication.

>

> Thanks,

> Debbie

>