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I will have to talk to my son's psychiatrist about this. Since he's moved away from home, he's become more violent and he's even attacked his caregivers. He never did that at home. If marijuana helps him hold it together, why not?
In my estimation, it's the difference between taking a pain killer when you're in excruciating pain, vs when you take one when you're fine (for the effect). If you're in pain, the medication relieves the pain, essentially bringing you back up to 'normal.'
So if somebody starts from rage, then the med won't get them high. It will bring the rage down to a manageable level.
Well, the idea with Andrew is not to let him get up to rage. The pills he has now, either they're not administering them properly or they're not working well. The need to be administered when he starts getting over stimulated. Then again, maybe that's something you have to learn to see, I can tell when he's getting overstimulated because I'm his mom. I don't think his caregivers really have a clue, or just don't pay attention. Then again, things have calmed down recently.
The American Academy of Pediatrics has circulated a resolution that opposes the use of medical marijuana in children. Dr. Sharon Levy, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Boston's Children's Hospital and chairwoman of the AAP's committee on substance abuse, told FOX 12 marijuana is toxic to children's developing brains. She also said enough isn't known about the drug's long-term effects.
Marijuana might be making him worse. The more marijuana the worse he gets, the more marijuana he needs to mask the effects.
What part of TOXIC do liberals not get? In my grandmother's day babies were quieted with a sugar tit. It was a cloth soaked in sugar water and whiskey. The infant would suck on the cloth. The alcohol would make the babies sleepy. Today giving alcohol to an infant would be child abuse.
This is a family in denial. They have a violent child. The child needs care. They don't want to give the child the care he needs because it would make them feel guilty, like "he wasn't part of the family". Instead they are going to rely on marijuana to control him. Why would anyone think something could go wrong?
The American Academy of Pediatrics has circulated a resolution that opposes the use of medical marijuana in children. Dr. Sharon Levy, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Boston's Children's Hospital and chairwoman of the AAP's committee on substance abuse, told FOX 12 marijuana is toxic to children's developing brains. She also said enough isn't known about the drug's long-term effects.
That is true. The connecting tissue between the left and right hemispheres of the brain is the corpus callous, and it's development can be negatively effected by the chronic use of MJ in the teenage years. I don't know that any research has been done where MJ is prescribed to tweens or teens under strict medical supervision.
Marijuana might be making him worse. The more marijuana the worse he gets, the more marijuana he needs to mask the effects.
What part of TOXIC do liberals not get? In my grandmother's day babies were quieted with a sugar tit. It was a cloth soaked in sugar water and whiskey. The infant would suck on the cloth. The alcohol would make the babies sleepy. Today giving alcohol to an infant would be child abuse.
This is a family in denial. They have a violent child. The child needs care. They don't want to give the child the care he needs because it would make them feel guilty, like "he wasn't part of the family". Instead they are going to rely on marijuana to control him. Why would anyone think something could go wrong?
http://www.usmessageboard.com/health-and-lifestyle/275316-my-son-may-have-adhd.html#post6728469For caffeine I was thinking coffee not red bull! lol
My thoughts on the caffeine was that it's a stimulant (as is Ritalin) but without the awful side effects. We tried Kevin on Ritalin for a very short period of time ... oh yeah, it reduced his outrages and out of control behavior and turned him into a completely unanimated zombie who hyperfocused on things. I remember vividly on Saturday he spent hours upon hours looking for a toy or book or something throughout the house. He just wandered around and around not doing anything but not able to stop looking and wandering. It freaked us out. He also wouldn't eat, lost a lot of weight and sleeping was troublesome.
He was on Risperdal for about a year and a half. At first it seemed like it may have helped but then that stopped and the doc wanted to increase in the dose. Uh, no thanks. We then noticed that about 45min or so after he took it (usually after dinner) he got really, really angry and his behavior went south. We decided that the drug route was just not safe and not worth it. Looked into alternatives, changed his diet ... his childhood was freakin' hard. His behavior ... omg, can't even really describe it. Puberty was a God-send. Something 'shifted' within him and the out of control destructive behavior slowly but surely stopped.
My son has never bashed his head on the floor, well he did once, but never did it again. But he for sure has the destructive behavior, especially when tired. He usually spends a half an hour at night running around destroying things, jumping off things, tonight he tried to slide down the stairs in a box. Good thing I caught that.
At first they diagnosed him with a sensory perception disorder aka high pain tolerance. Which he does, and I noticed it when he was a baby. He didn't cry, he was always happy, and stuff that should hurt him wouldn't. I pinched him when was eight months old, when I really started to wonder about it. He didn't even flinch.
When he learned to walk, he was running the next week, but didn't care if he fell. Which meant we had problems with the stairs etc.
I think I might start another thread on ADHD, so we don't hijack this one..I think I will just try plain coffee no sugar etc on him one day.
Please link it in this one so I can go to that one, thanks.
