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Our 9 year old boy was diagnosed with PDD-NOS 5 years ago. He wasn't on any medication for the first year. We were trying behavioral therapies and other methods prior to medicating him.
After those didn't work well enough we decided to medicate him. He has been on 1mg of Guanfacine for the past 4 years. His behavior started getting erratic over the last 6 months and we realized that even though he has grown in both weight and height, his dosage had never changed.
So we went to his doctor and… read more
He was put on it to help even out his ADHD.
Advice, take him off the medication now. What was the reason for starting him on this med?
my 12 yo daughter uses Concerta for ADHD...she does great on 27 mg but when the Dr tries to increase it because of her weight, its awful..she gets angry, irritable, foul mouth..so we are staying with 27mg.
Also when she was younger the Dr put her on several different medications trying to find one for ADHD, it would cause her to have rages...so that was left untreated for several years. she has since been diagnosed with Autism and doing well, without anything except the Concerta.
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