kbrand0554

With schizoaffective disorder, and pervasive developmental delay, and moderate retardation.
He was showing signs of possibly becomming violent at school, and was removed from the school by police liasons, he was made to go to court, and when he went he ws ordered to take meds as prescribed. I took him to see his psychiatrist, and she instead of following my recomendation of raiseing his risperidol,,she placed him on Oxycarbazipine.

Well he may have exibited signs of making people fear him before, but after taking the oxycarbazipine for about a week, he became so aggitated he punced his younger brother in the face, and was placed under a chapter 51.

Can anyone leave me with advice as to how to handle all that is going on with my son?

Do you think it is more important to keep his mind stablized than to worry about weight gain, and minimal breast tissue?

I feel the psychiatrist went against my wishes and placed him on something that is typically used on patients with Bi poler disorder.

I told her what his diagnosis was, and his medications only needed raising.
well now that he is out of the home they finally listen to me and raise the risperidol, and he is stablized.

Now they want to cut back on the risperidol because of its weight gain issues and causing breast tissue in my son, and he is on depotestosterone shots, and a doctor wants to discontinue them as well, as the psychiatrist thinks my sons aggitation that occurrs at the end of a shot cycle is a reason to cut back on the meds that keep his behavior in control.

He has only recently been showing signs of aggitation, that I feel is due to stress of having been attacked by another peer that caused a laceration to his upper lip with a pool cue last month, my son recieved 15 stitches to the outer lip, and more than 15 to the inner lip. the laceration was all the way through the lip.