Ot - anyone using depakote spr
Has anyone used Depakote SPR medicine with their child? I wouldappreciate any experience you could share. We are having a VERY hardtime with violent tantrums and aggression with my 8 year old withAspergers. We have a lot of things in place that are helping but seemto be in a very bad cycle with the physical outburst and have decidedto use medication to try and break the aggression cycle. The doctoralso gave us Ativan to give to him when a crisis comes up.
For those of you who have these problems, what else have you used?Did it help?
Please no lectures about medications, things are pretty desperate andgetting worse right now or we wouldn’t consider it. It has been a badfew months and a very very bad week.
This post tagged as: aspergers, tantrums, asperger
Federico Purington said,
Wrote on April 8, 2007 @ 4:09 am
My 7yo son had lots of bizzare tantrum behaviors on Dilantin,neurontin, clonidine, zonegran, tranxene and tegretol - we’ve triedall of these at one time or another. None helped with seizure controleither - we had to keep increasing the dosage because he metabolizedit so quickly. What has helped immensely is depakote sprinkles - a lowdose (I guess) - he’s 60 lbs and takes 1 125 mg sprinkle 3x daily.This has controlled the seizures - we saw behavior problems beforewhen this med was mixed with other seizure control meds - but alone,its working. We recently added Straterra (again, a low dose 25mg 1xdaily) to help with focus at school.
Our experience has been 1 med at a time - combos always have turnedour boy into a little monster. If your neurologist is not sensitive tothe quality of life issues that the current meds are causing - SWITCHdoctors- I’ve done this - it is possible to have both seizure controland a functioning child as well. I have always kept a detailed log ofmeds/seizure activity/meds to use for justification/documentation fordocs as needed.
Virgen Kretzer said,
Wrote on April 9, 2007 @ 5:49 am
a neighbor of mine has a 6 y/o girl on depakote. The reason is because shehas “A” seizures! Something to do with her spacing out. According to thedr. this will bring her daughter to where she is supposed to be mentally!She has been on it for over 6 months and I have not seen any changes in her.She still has behavior issues, meltdowns, ect., and no she is not on thediet. Her mom does not believe in it. Even though she had seen first handwhat it had done for my lil one. I am curious also about adding caritinetoo.