Re: Risperdal/Liz & Marina

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started taking Risperdal 1 yr ago and only at night at .75 ml

now he takes 1.00 ml broken into 2 doses. .25 ml in the morning

and .75 ml at night. The first thing I notice is he understands much

better cognitively, he sleeps through the night and now he tries to

communicate more.We of course do not mean he is chatty but his

speech is picking up.Now the risperdal has helped with the bads

behaviors too but he still has them. Some of 's behaviors are

OCD or Obssesive Compulsive Disorders and we may put him or try him

on another med for OCD.Most people think with medicine you will see

overnight success but you must be patient and give it a couple of

months. Because when they put our kids on these meds they put them

on such a lose dose just to make sure they tolerate the meds and can

increase the meds each stage/level as long as no side effects. I am

always amazed when someone says I took a medicine for 2 weeks

without results because mind altering meds usually take longer and

possibly need to be increased to see any results. Hang in there and

keep working on the communcations but as we give our children more

of a way to communicate this to lesson the negative behaviors. I

hope I have helped. Cyndi

> Luca is on it, too, but we give it to him at night. Maybe we also

should change to the morning... Did Dr. Capone suggest it?

> Marina

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> Liz D <liz.desantis@r...> wrote:Well, this is our second try with

it in the AM. She has been taking it at

> night for a few months now. The first time we tried her on it in

the AM, it

> was disastrous. All she wanted to do is sleep.

>

> Liz

> Re: Risperdal

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> > In a message dated 9/22/2005 3:46:40 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,

> > liz.desantis@r... writes:

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> >

> > Perhaps we are finally onto something?? We can only hope.

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> >

> > Liz, it took us two weeks before we saw HUGE changes in Maddie.

> > However,

> > that being said, if I saw real bad stuff, I would have stopped.

Hope

> > it's

> > all good news for you.

> > Donna

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