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Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) an ongoing pattern of disobedient, hostile, and defiant behavior toward authority figures that goes beyond the bounds of normal childhood behavior. When a child cannot seem to control his anger or frustration, even over what seems to be trivial or simple to others, the child will often react in violent or negative ways to his own...

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Seroquel and Children

Knottedprism
Knottedprism
I recently was told that my 9 year old step son is on Seroquel, and they mother can't seem to keep her story straight when telling me why he is on it...

Late Last year and Early into this year this child's mother was told he Had ODD... and was put on some medication that started with an "A" ( ABILIFY I believe)

This month she says she has been told that he has "Bi Polar Tones" and has been put on Seroquel (50MG of meds so far)

I am worried about him as she said he lost bowel and urine control on the "ABILIFY" and now is on this one...

The Father has limited if any visitation ( like 2-3 times a year at her discretion) .. .


Do any of you have kids that are on these meds? Can you help me understand more about them...
deleted_user
deleted_user
No I dont know any kids on seroquel. I seriously draw the line on this one, for some reason it doesnt sit right with me. I took a seroquel one time, and was so out of it, like I couldnt tell you what I did for the last 1/2 hour, out of it. Its a pretty potent anti-psychotic I believe.

When you are with him, does it seem that he needs to be that heavily medicated? Loosing bowel control on the abilify, how said, that must be tramatic for a kid that age. Sorry I am no help. I jsut think that its so sad these drugs are rx for all these young kids, I know its for a reason but its still so said. Good luck
deleted_user
deleted_user
I don't know anything about the specific meds, but you can request a meeting with the docs that are prescribing the meds. I would recommend it.
deleted_user
deleted_user
hi this is what i went and found out about the meds it is mostley used to treat phychotic disorders,such as schizophrenia and also used to treat bipolar ( manic-depressive illness) this is a list of the most common illnesses that it is used for

bipolar disorder
depression
post-traumatic stress disorder
panic attacks
stress management


It did not say anything that i could find that it is used for ODD or adhd or anything like that unless i missed it but if you click on the name of the meds you will find the same thing i did! But it sounds like it is a very strong med. Hope that helps and if not sorry for waisting your time!
mavenpaole
mavenpaole
There is no actual med designed to treat ODD. ODD is basically PTSD in children and Seroquel has many uses. My son is going to be starting it today. He is not pschizophrenic but he does have an obsession of saying violent things, i think more for attention than anything. My sons father is not really in the picture and my son was witness to domestic violence in a very early age. It sounds like your step son as well has issues with the father. And if he is very bright like my son is he may have difficulty processing such emotions of violence and feelings of abandonment. My son also is a little obsessive about things that bother him and will remember for years. His current psychiatrist thinks perhaps his left temporal lobe is affected and he may have a low level of seratonin. Seroquel is kind of there to put all brain chemicals back on track as much as possible. We are just about to start it and I am scared because of all I have read but my doctor thinks this is the next step for now. Hope that helps
also I have been a nurse for 10 years so even we get stumped on this stuff!
mavenpaole
mavenpaole
Also if you could post an update on how your step son is doing that would be great!
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