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Hi

 

I have a bit of a dilema in that my son's headteacher and learning assistant asked me if I'd considered medication for my son. Initially I was horrified, but we have really reached crisis point and the school are finding him incredibly challenging. We've been seen by CAMHS who are saying that he's extremely anxious and they're fully aware of reports from others too (school/specialist visiting autism teachers, etc). Thing is, last week I had a review meeting at the school and to my great surprise his psycchiatrist from CAMHS attended. I thought great, this is it, everyone's going to be 'singing from the same hymnsheet'. How wrong I was, I was really angry that the school will individually report a lot of problems and express real concern, but yet collectively in the presence of the Ed Psych and other people responsible for funding, that there seems to be some sort of gagging order! I therefore deliberately asked leading questions to force answers out of them, but am extremely annoyed I had to do that - I also expressed my disappointment to each of them that they'd clammed up.

 

My dilema is this... Whilst I believe R would benefit a great deal from medication (that's the plan - CAMHS are deliberating what to prescribe), do I be awkward and tell the school that if everything is so great, then they can get on and manage without R going on medication. I realise this is vindictive, but also, it's struck me that if R were in a special school (going to look at one today), then would we even need to consider medication - he might cope much better and be a lot calmer (then again, he might not). I'm also getting cold feet and feeling guilty about medication, despite the fact we've been repeated hit, kicked, punched, etc and Rs behaviour really has escalated massively. Lastly, even if I wanted R in a special school, there's no guarantee this will happen, so do I sit back and wait for Rs behaviour both at home and in school to get even worse - and if so, if he were to go on medication, would this simply delay what might be the inevitable and only temporarily mask his difficulties.

 

Lots of questions, but I'm sure a lot of you on this forum will have agonised and went through exactly the same. Advice welcome!

 

Caroline.

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you could try medication, but go into it with the mind set, that nothing has to be forever, maybe try it for a few months and then review it?

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O gawd my sons old school did the same whinged to me then told the cdt meeting people all is fine...id personally want to be vindictive lol....but its a hard one isnt it.....my next option is meant to be meds n im torn tbh. >:D<<'>

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What sort of medication are you considering? I think you have to ask who is the medication for. If it will benefit your son directly then I would strongly consider it especially if it will help improve his quality of life, happiness or ability to learn. If it is to make life easier for school then I would be much more reluctant. You could always trial it for a couple of weeks and see what difference it made.

 

Lx

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