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My son (11) has been on rispiridone for 4 weeks now to curb his violent behaviour towards my me and my wife and his younger brother who is as normal as he can be considering. I never thought I would ever experience him trying to punch me in the face and at that point knew we had to try a different drug. He was on 300mg of carbomazepin twice a day which did not seem to work - we think he just outgrew and became immune to it as the dosage kept being increased. Since he has been on rispiridone there has been an improvement in his agressive streak although it still rises to the surface occasionally but he seems to be able to control it a little better. We have also put a big punch bag in his bedroom to take out his anger on rather than us! this is also good for me as well to release my pent up frustrations!! The only down side is he is constantly hungry and become a bit more fussy with food saying the things he likes taste funny. One of the side effects we were told about was weight gain but to date he hasn't put on any as he keeps fit through playing football for a local team. Good luck

Interesting comments on this subject. My son was delivered in 4 hrs, the last past part using forceps due to him becoming distressed. He is 11 now and I can plainly remember the consultant having one foot up against the delivery bed asking my wife to give it some welly whilst trying to pull the little fella out! Of course you don't question what they are doing as they are trained people (alledgedly!). Due to this he had a strange shape head with a ridge which runs longitudally down to between his eyes although physically it is not noticeable. After one of his aggressive outbursts his usaully complains of a headache and cannot remember anything. He did have a skull xray when he was about 18mths and we were told there was nothing unusual.......... makes me wonder now - this is something I definately will look into Woodstock