Aspies For Freedom

My son has horrible aggression outbursts and to give him the chance to manage them he is on Risperdal/Risperidon on a quite low dose. I had to rise the dose recently, for he had outgrown it, I guess. When I started medication it was on half the dose (with reasurring of the doctor) the Psychologist first recommended and we have been very carefully with increasing it.

So right now we are to have about two big explosions per day and a couple of smaller ones (which is far from being in any range of a normal family), including biting his younger brother  :cry: AND this is with a reduced amount of social stress, for it's still holidays over here.

Soon he will have to start at a new school and for he already had to leave two schools in the last year, the Psychologist recommended to increase the medication again to help my son to a good start at that school.

I am not sure about it. Until now I have not seen any negative effects of the medication on him, but I (and only I, not him) don't feel comfortable with psychopharmaceutics. But I really should give him the chance to be prosperous at his new school, shouldn't I?

Sibylle

What dose of risperdal is he on?

It's about 0.375 mg per day. I got do divide a 0.5 mg pill into 3/4  :roll:  And as I can't do it exact it varies every day. So if I have the feeling it's going to be a good day, I'll give him the smaller parts.

Sibylle

That amount won't be doing much anyway. :?

In fact it is doing a lot! I just changed from 0.25 mg to that dose and we only have two big outbursts instead of continuous explosions.

I think that my son's metabolism is more sensitive to Risperidon than other peoples. About three years ago, we started with 0.125 mg and it made a big difference.

Sibylle