Zoloft and Tenex use

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If you have any feedback, good or bad, on the use of Zoloft and Tenex, please let me know. My son had been on Risperdal for about 4 years. The doctor recommended taking him off and we put him on Tenex. That didn't go over too well and he was extremely hyper, constantly jibber-jabbering video dialogue and becoming somewhat aggressive. Doctor referred us to a psychiatrist and we chose Dr. Cabrera after researching the posts on 's List. He recommended starting him on the lowest dose of Zoloft and eventually weaning him off of Tenex. He recommended giving him the Zoloft in the evening. Things were okay for the first 2 weeks, then the nightmare began. He was not sleeping. One day/night he was up for 26 hours before he went to sleep and that was with giving him melatonin and a drop of Risperdal. We called the doctor and he said to give it to him

in the morning instead and also to give him some Benedryl if he wakes up. It worked for the first 3 days and now again he is up all night. I am not an advocate of medication and do not want to be giving him Benedryl everynight. Even if I do give him the Benedryl he only sleeps about 3 hours. If no Benedryl, he doesn't fall asleep at all. Last night he was up until 3AM. I finally gave him the Bendryl (because I was at my wits end!) and he fell asleep somewhere between 4AM-5AM and he was up again at 8AM. Another thing he started doing is getting up and leaving his room and running around the house at all hours of the night because he is not asleep. I will be calling the doctor again tomorrow hopefully to make some changes. Has anyone else had this experience? Thanks in advance for your responses. RM