Guest guest Posted March 8, 2004 Report Share Posted March 8, 2004 I have a 4 year old son who has Bi-Polar. He is currently on Adderal, AdderalXr and Serequal. I don't like him being on these medicines, but he is very difficult to manage without them. He becomes very hyper, and violent. Through actions and words. Does anyone have any experience in this and give me some pointers on alternative methods to medicine? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 10, 2004 Report Share Posted March 10, 2004 There is no easy answer for you. Ther are answers but they will require some effort. I believe that you are either going to have to educate yourself or go to a very good natural doctor. Either a naturopath or an orthomolecular MD. A lot of what your son may be acting out could be a direct result of these drugs especially when they start to wear off. These are very strong drugs for an adult let alone a child. They may make him outwardly managable when the dose is high in his bloodstream, but you need to learn what they do inside. You may have put your son in a very serious position. (Seroquel is especially dangerous). Please be careful and to go very slowly in any changes. I am very surprised that they would put someone so young on these strong drugs. It isn't just a matter of substituting some natural product for an unnatural one. There are now two areas to consider. Being on these drugs is a seperate problem in itself. Coming off these drugs is a problem. You cannot just stop them cold as it can cause great harm to the person. Once off you can expect a lot of symptoms as these drugs cause major changes in the brain's biochemistry. Adding another drug will not cure the problem but mask it and further disrupt the biochemistry. It may take some time for the brain to right itself with the needed nutritional supplements. I think that you should start by reading our back articles. Input into the search function on our home page to search our archives. Search on these medications each and bipolar too. Read all of the articles. We have many links on our links page also. Read the ones about alternative mental health and the ones about drugs. Read the PDR on all of these drugs especially the side effects. Use an online dictonary to explain medical terms. One of many that you should go to is Safe harbor Project http://www.alternativementalhealth.com (I think that is correct) It is also one of the links on our links page. Go to our message boards and read all the articles under mental health section. The address is on the bottom of all our messages from this group. Most mental health problems usually start out as either a nutritional deficiency, a reaction to toxic exposure, or the result of some invading organism. With some research for self education and some time and effort most mental health issues can be corrected. You will need someone who is very knowledgable about getting someone off these drugs without harm and someone to correct the situation that caused the brain to be biochemically imbalanced. (and no, none of the psychoactive drugs advertised to correct brain chemicals does anything like correct anything, but usually make any imbalance worse.) Frank In , " dancedemon1 " <dancedemon1> wrote: > I have a 4 year old son who has Bi-Polar. He is currently on > Adderal, AdderalXr and Serequal. I don't like him being on these > medicines, but he is very difficult to manage without them. He > becomes very hyper, and violent. Through actions and words. Does > anyone have any experience in this and give me some pointers on > alternative methods to medicine? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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