Kaylia is on two medications .... one that controls stimming and allows her to concentrate (Risperdal) .... and one that controls her anxiety levels (Lovan). Lovan doesn't seem to have any side effects for her but Risperdal has a big impact on appetite and weight gain. Over the past two years, Kaylia has gone from a slim, trim thing to a chubby thing. The added weight is not good for her.
We have two options ....
We could ignore the weight factor and use Risperdal till it is no longer needed .... hoping that her normal growth will bring the weight and BMI into proportion.
Or we can try to reduce Risperdal ASAP.
So .... over the past few days we have been reducing the dose of Risperdal .... trying to test whether the drug is still needed for her learning. If the reduced dose has no observable effect and we get no comments from school etc ....then it means that Risperdal has completed its task and we can live with out it. Her usual dose is 0.75ml per day .... since Wednesday it has been 0.5ml per day - 4 days. If after a further 10 days we can see no adverse effect, we can try a further recuction to 0.25ml per day ....
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