momster
10-08-2006, 09:07 PM
Hi everyone - glad to be back!!!!
This summer was a very tough one for my son. He had been put on STraterra in the early spring. After several weeks he started to get nasty. Although there was a poster on this forum who said that he had expereinced this side effect and improved, my son just got nastier!!!! We took him off when he completely lost control in June. Spent the summer letting it get out of his system. 3 months later, he was impulsive, inattentive, moody and had a lot of tantrums.....I was disappointed because I was hoping to get the same kid back that I had before we tried this med! Needless to say, his primary care provider was very concerned about BPD, as was his developmentalist. SHe referred us to a study which said he didn't meet BPD criteria but maybe was depressed. Well, I'm just figuring out that, in responding to the Straterra crisis, we created a spoiled kid! It was very clear that, at the end of STraterra, he was having tantrums and could not control himself. After a 2 hour tantrum the other day, he admitted that he had control of them, and so I realized that I need to treat this as a discipline problem. :(. So not I'm sending him to his room if he wines or is foul. It's helping, and I'm hoping to get the same dangerously impulsive, but endearing boy back.
Hope everyone else is doing well!!!!
- momster
This summer was a very tough one for my son. He had been put on STraterra in the early spring. After several weeks he started to get nasty. Although there was a poster on this forum who said that he had expereinced this side effect and improved, my son just got nastier!!!! We took him off when he completely lost control in June. Spent the summer letting it get out of his system. 3 months later, he was impulsive, inattentive, moody and had a lot of tantrums.....I was disappointed because I was hoping to get the same kid back that I had before we tried this med! Needless to say, his primary care provider was very concerned about BPD, as was his developmentalist. SHe referred us to a study which said he didn't meet BPD criteria but maybe was depressed. Well, I'm just figuring out that, in responding to the Straterra crisis, we created a spoiled kid! It was very clear that, at the end of STraterra, he was having tantrums and could not control himself. After a 2 hour tantrum the other day, he admitted that he had control of them, and so I realized that I need to treat this as a discipline problem. :(. So not I'm sending him to his room if he wines or is foul. It's helping, and I'm hoping to get the same dangerously impulsive, but endearing boy back.
Hope everyone else is doing well!!!!
- momster