jackyah333

we come back from a paediatric neurologist yesterday with a prescription for risperdal for our 2 year old girl ourselves! we went to see this much respected professor because our daughter has been having seizures. while in consultation she was being very busy, uncooperative, and screamed and shouted at the student ot and physio (who came into the room to assess her development). but i knew it was going to be a difficult consultation as we had to sit and wait for 3 hours for our appointment and our girl was overstimulated, tired and irritable. the neurologist asked us if this was normal behaviour and we said well, when she's tired she acts out, but yes she does have a very annoying high pitched scream lately that drives us up the wall, and that she is normally a little hyper and she often hurts herself, falling off things (she has a low muscle tone due to the condition), and sometimes it seems as if she doesn't understand the consequences so she would go and climb on the very same table minutes after she fell off. the professor said the screaming must be very annoying for us and we said well sure.... and then she said she was going to prescribe "a little something" to help with her behaviour. we asked what it was and she didn't really say much, but we deduced it was a little relaxant, or something to help her sleep better. when we got the medication we saw that it was a schedule 5 and i thought that was rather high and that's when i read the pamphlet that comes with the meds. i almost fell of my chair when i read that it's normally used to treat schizophrenia and symptoms of bipolar disorder and autistic children to treat symptoms of irritability! no way am i giving her this stuff! and i will def be getting a second opinion before i will ever give her this medication! [color=#003399]