I’m just wondering because my son takes it and I can’t really get inside his head to ask him how it makes him feel, etc. He was prescribed this med for aggressive behavior and it does help with that as well as helping him concentrate. Also, I can’t emphasize how much it seems to help his quality of life. By that, I mean that it helps him to focus and he’s learned to communicate much more effectively while whereas before he would be aggressive or cry because he couldn’t focus on what he needed/wanted to communicate to us.

I’m not an advocate for meds, I’m just saying why it seems to help our son.

Having said that, like you said “It’s not candy.” We’re constantly thinking about reducing his dosage to see if he still needs it or if he can be on a lower dosage. We have lowered it somewhat, with the help of his doctor.

We tried lowering it on our own and the doctor that he had at that time, gave us very bad advice and we lowered it too quickly. He developed horrible tics and stiffening up his whole body. The doctor was stupid and we were sort of blamed for wanting to lower his dose to begin with.

We found a better doctor and lowered the dosage very gradually. I think it was something like one-fourth a mg. every six weeks or something. He didn’t get tics from lowering it that way.

This is a med that we always wanted to get rid of in the long run and hope to do so at some point but don’t want to risk bringing back the aggressive behaviors – biting, hitting, etc. I could deal with these if they were only temporary and only at home, but obviously at school it’s a problem because I don’t want other students or teachers to be injured.

Sorry so long. Just wondering in your experience what exactly it helped you with and if it continued to help you if you would not be going off of it and what were the negative side effects for you?

Thanks!