Is your aspie child medicated?

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If so, with what and what does it do for him/her?

My son is autistic and not medicated.

Ritalin 10

One tablet in the morning and one at lunch. It seems to work well, helps him to concentrate (stay still) in class.

We tried Ritalin 30 all day variant but it seems to give him tics, so we've stopped it now.

We also tried DEX but it had other negative effects - forgot what now.

He's 7, and quite tall but thin.

No medication for my son.

Son is 12 years, on Adderall once in the morning (10 mg). We're still waiting to see if it's truly effective.

He has been on Strattera, which didn't work

Concerta, which didn't work.

He took Metadate for about 2 years, and it worked for the first 1-1/2 years, but lost it's effectiveness, which is why we're trying the Adderall now.

I definitely think there will come a time when our son is NOT on meds.

Kris

son is aspie & 16. we've tried paxil in varying doses, depakote, prozac, wellbutrin, and seroquel. currently he takes: prozac, wellbutrin, seroquel, melatonin & a daily vitamin.

hubby is aspie and he takes prozac & klonazapam.

daughter is ADHD, but suspected aspie. she takes Tenex for anxiety

NO--although the school would like him to be. Every day his report says he had a hard time focusing and paying attention and following routines. But, he's keeping up with work--haven't heard otherwise--papers are coming home 100's. I guess he's understanding it all--all that dry dull work.

Not yet. He is going on 5 but has lots of (understandable) anxiety toward medical treatments and some types of performance in the classroom.

My grandsons aged 8 and 9 are not on any medication. They have responded well to cognitive training

No! My son J is 9 was originally dx'd with adhd about 3 years ago, his pead at the time wanted to put him on meds, I refused. He was diagnosed aspie with a visual memory disorder a little over a month ago. J's behaviour is odd, however he only appears hyper in unfamiliar surroundings (ie the peads office, OT etc) and when there is to much sensory stimulation( he gets very excited and is all over the place.)

My 15 yr old Aspie is on Strattera and Lexapro. More for his ADD and anxiety than the Aspergers

We've played around with the doses. We started with Adderall XR and that was a nightmare. Literally. He was on Paxil for awhile, too, but with all the controversy with that, we switched to the Lexapro.


I wanted to have a drug free summer - just to give his body a break, but by the time the meds are out of him, it would be late and not enough time to get them back up to the levels he needs to function in school.

I had thought about switching him to Focalin, but the docs say Strattera is working, why change it?

My 6 1/2 year old Aspie is unmedicated. I want to try more behavioral changes for my son before moving to medication, since he was only recently diagnosed.

My son is 4.5 and has PDD-NOS. Recently we started considering meds as a way to support his feeding therapy. He eats three things, only one of them possibly considered food, and otherwise literally survives on supplements slipped into his milk. His anxiety about putting any other food in his mouth is so severe that I feel like we have to try something med-wise. His ped is currently looking into Paxil right now, but I'm very nervous and I'd like to hear more from those who've used it. Also, please tell me more about this controversy.

we slowly weaned our son off of Paxil, as it wasn't very effective .......actually, when he first started on it, it was going pretty well