Autism, ADHD and presciption medicines.  

Hi Sky,

You have to find the right physician in order to have the
good treatment for your son, but unfortunately we can not confirmed
that all the physician are more talent and has the good ability to
treat the dis order or diseases. But in general there are several
physician has different skills and different method of treatments and
also it would varied from physician to physician, so as a parents we
have the responsibility to find the suitable physician with high skills
and talents for our kids in order to have the good and useful treatment.
Basically all the doctor are good in nature and they are following their
ethics in the treatment and would thoughts about the well beings of the
humans. So try to find the right doctor for your kids in order to have the
good treatments.

Have a nice day.

My son is four. They suggested I might want to put him on medication because he wakes up in the night. That medicine was more for me than him. So I said no. I feel that I can deal with him waking up.

It has to be a personal choice as to whether or not you think your child would benefit from the drug. You have to remember all medications have side effects and medicine effects different people differently. What made your friend's son crazy may work for your son. What is working for your friend's son may make your son crazy. It is not a guarantee that medications will work the same in everyone. When you are dealing with mind diseases, it's even more iffy about how it will effect the mind.

My father in law is severe diabetic. He takes shots and is supposed to regulate his sugar. It sounds easy enough. They had a heck of a time getting him the right dosage and the right kind of medicine. I guess that is why the doctors just practice medicine, there is no exact science.

The medicines weren't wrong, the dosage was. If you feel he does fine without the medication, then that's fine too. Just don't take the idea of medications completely out of the picture.
My daughter was on medications but she also has several issues that included Autism, ADHD, anxiety disorder, OCD, and chronic tics. For her, the medications were a necessity but we never looked at them as being lifelong. She's been off all medications for the past few years and has chewed the collars of her shirts but as long as we can deal, I'll leave it be.
Far worse than the medications are the quack cures everyone is raving about. The crazy diets and all that is pure quackery. Then there's the big mouths like Jenny McCarthy who should be gagged. These kids aren't getting better because of the quack cures, they are getting better because of the attention being paid to them.

I have no experience with medicating my son. I just have a very strong prejudice against using pharmaceuticals unless there is absolutely no other option. For one thing, there are the side effects that one of the other responders mentioned. For another, there are often natural remedies that have benefits without the side effects. Sadly, a lot of alternative types of practitioners (such as Naturopathy) aren't covered by most insurances. But if you can afford to see a Naturopathic doctor who has some experience with children with Autism and ADHD, I'd recommend giving it a try. We have somebody here on myLot, Hornswaggled, who has a lot of knowledge about herbs and other natural remedies also. You might want to give her a holler. Good luck!

I refuse to medicate my autistic son just because he's autistic. It makes me angry as well as sad when someone says he should be medicated. Why should he be medicated? Because he's different? Because he's not "normal"? What the hell is normal anyway? We are all different in our own way. It's what makes us unique.

Okay, so I know that isn't exactly the same thing as autistic people don't function the same way as most people do. But still, they shouldn't have to be medicated because of it.

It's great that your friend found meds to help her son and all, but personally I wouldn't want my son to go through all that and just to find the right combination of drugs. Plus I'm not interested in drugs fixing the "problem". I think that's what's wrong with society. As soon as there is any kind of "problem" drugs are the solution. Well, I have to say this girl isn't into that sort of thing. There are many valid reasons to use drugs, but to me medicating an autistic child isn't one of them.

As it is a lot of drugs can do more harm than good. It would kill me if something were to happen to my son all because he was on some drug. I'd never be able to forgive myself.