Someone at the chat was apparently more content with his use of Risperdal. He said that it basically slows down the brain's prosesses, and that way get rid of overprosessing. I guess meltdown due to sensory overlaud could be called overprosessing. He also said that the drug when used on avarage-joe autistics is in very small doses. When I mentioned a parent who believed that risperdal helped his daughter he said that the parents probably didn't have much clue as to what he was talking about.
http://pediatrics.about.com/od/autism/a/...perdal.htm
According to this site a common side effect of risperdal is constipation. I remember that the parent I mentioned earlier had told that his daughter had chronic diarreah until she began on a GF/CF diet.
May I speculate a connection?
Could it be that all the talk about GI issues in autistics is really about something that is caused by drugs children have been given?
This is pure speculation I and don't expect that I'm on to something.
I think it's stupid to suggest that one psychoanalytical drug should work for a large population. I also know my psychatrist, and other psychatrists would agree largely.
Everyone has different chemical levels floating about in their brain. One drug might level off those chemicals, while another one might put them even more out of whack than before. It's not like prescribing a Antibiotic in other words. You know though, these parents who want a quick fix for their Autie child.
I was prescribed Zyprexa for anxiety and although I didn't take it for very long it pretty much made me into a zombie (and this was on the lowest available dosage) and made me dizzy all the time. I had to stop taking it.
It frustrates me that anti psychotics are used for things that actually aren't psychosis.
As for sensory overload - my perspective is still that this is a social moded of disability issue rather than a medical model - i.e. I don't see my sensory issues as a defect that need to be cured- I think that in the same way that many public places now have ramped access, there should also be more emphasis on low arousal environments.
This is just my opinion - please don't tear me to pieces for it.
I wasn't aware the FDA had approved risperdal for treatment of autism alone
Wonder if I've done abit of misinformation there. It could seem as if it is approved for irritability and aggression found in autistic children and adolescents, but I'm not sure what the different uses of words means for what risperdal actually is approved for.
This is possibly interesting:
Keep in mind that it is only approved for autistic children who are between the ages of 5 to 16 years old right now.
Source: http://pediatrics.about.com/od/autism/a/...perdal.htm
While older children were more likely to take medications than younger children, it was noted that “use was quite common” in children aged 0 to 2 years (18%) and 3 to 5 years (32%). And,
Among 0- to 2-year-olds, sedatives were most common; among 3- to 5- and 6- to 11-year-olds, both neuroleptic drugs and stimulants were most common; and in the oldest 2 age groups, neuroleptic drugs were most common.
The researchers acknowledge certain limitations to their finds, due to the children all being enrolled in Medicaid:
Use among the Medicaid population may be higher than in the general ASD population because Medicaid typically has less restrictive formulary and copayments than private insurance. Also, Medicaid-eligible children may be more severely affected than the general population of children with ASDs; that 70% of children in this study qualified for Medicaid because of their disability provides some evidence of this.
Source: http://www.autismvox.com/is-medication-u...ncreasing/
I have to agree with everyone else, I really don't think antipsychotics should be prescribed for anything but psychosis, I have known a few people who were on the stuff, and they all hated it.
It seems to be prescribed a lot these days for the most minor of things, one of my friends (NT) was given it for trouble sleeping FFS, needless to say, he only took it once.
I might add, that I have very little memory of the time when I was given Ritalin and Risperdal.
Think that first person I mentioned telling a negative experience told something like that aswell.
Hey dogbrain, way to bite aliengirl's head off her shoulders, struck me as a bit OTT there.
I think dogbrain meant aripiprazole, which is indeed a partial D2 agonist.
Antipsychotic is a fairly appropriate term, given that they do suppress to some extent the positive symptoms of psychosis, and are used to treat psychotic conditions, neuroleptic, antipsychotic, we all understand what is meant by the term, as far as I can tell its just semantics between the two, the end use and end result is the same, there really wasn't any need to give aliengirl all that beef was there?
Now while I still actually remember why I came to the thread in the first place, oxytocin, it appears, that there are companies now selling the nasal spray, promoting it as 'liquid trust'
This really can't be good.
Often sounds like there's sometimes a lack of checks and balances when it comes to psychiatric medication.
From what I've seen DB pretty much always flame regardless of who is the messenger behind the message he objects to.
I wouldn't condemn it if he doesn't see it reasonable to work with it.
Last paragraph would seem illogical I guess, would change it to:
I wouldn't condemn it if he tried to work with it, isn't aware when he does it or didn't see it reasonably possible to work with it.