@A MyAutismTeam Member please forgive my ignorance...I am still new to this. What is a TSS?

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Audrey is correct; Abilify is not a good drug. My son was on it & he became more aggressive & ill tempered. We cannot just stop it but my son's doctor changed his drug to Intuniv. My son is a therapist for his aggressive behavior & was moved to an autism support class at school where he has paraprofessionals to work with him. He now has a TSS that comes to our home after school to help him transition from school to home. My son has ADHD which is the root cause of his aggression & it is the lest understood of what ADHD does to a person's brain. My son also takes Clonidine at night to assist him in sleeping. There is no drug that will eliminate aggression. Therapy & the right medication will help the most & getting the right schooling is a big plus.

Thanks Audrey for your advice about Abilify. My son has been on it for 2 weeks and I am already thinking of stopping it. Whenever he has been on risperdal, clonidine and now abilify, he has not been able to sleep and seems more hyper, things that were suppost to be helped with the medication. I will take your advice about the Magnesium cream and stop giving him the baths. I am so confused about what to do to help my son with his aggression. What if anything do you give your son now?

Please, please, PLEASE do NOT go down that Abilify or drug road! You will be so sorry once your child is addicted/dependent on Abilify (and all the other mind-altering and SSRI drugs) and then changes their behavior to much worse. The doctors then run the other way when their behavior becomes monstrous and completely out of your control. The only help that doctor will ever offer when your world has completely fallen apart from the horrific side effects of Ability (and the rest) is to add more drugs to counteract the side effects of the first. You are with the WRONG doctor! If your child is having behavioral issues, I can guarantee you those behaviors are NOT because of a deficiency of any drug. When my son went off the deep end at age 13 (very long story), instead of medicating him as the doctors want you to, I went on a massive hunt for the cause(s) of his pain---because the bad or unwanted behaviors are NOT because of the autism, but because of PAIN and frustration of their pain not being recognized or dealt with. Ability and all the other drugs do not address the pain, but instead add to it because it's just one more thing to detox for a kid that already has a huge problem getting rid of toxins. So FIRE any doctor that recommendeds mind-altering addictive drugs and find one that will help you change your childs diet and environment to a chemical-free life, including stopping ALL sources of fluoride and fluoridated water (even the shower/bath). And then talk to your child about pain and teach them how to tell you when their pain intensifies or what helps make them feel better. Just knowing that you know what they are going through can help them calm down. Put into words what they themselves cannot. Make sure they know that YOU UNDERSTAND that the behavior is out of frustration and pain, and that you need their help figuring out how to fix it. This is how I did it with my 225 pound severely autistic son. It just doesn't work to drug them or force them to do anything. If you haven't already done so, order some Magnesium Sulfate cream (epsom salts) from Kirkman Labs and slather it on the red places for best absorption. Do not give epsom salt baths---they help reduce pain in the short run, but guarantee pain later from the fluoride intake. Also, NEVER EVER give Tylenol nor any products containing it as it will produce mind-blowing pain in the long run. With our ASD folks, prescription drugs and over-the-counter medications and pain relievers should be entirely avoided. Avoidance of the pain triggers is the best, but when that fails, use Magnesium Sulfate cream, homeopathics and lots of empathy. Most of our folks with ASD have PST enzyme deficiency which makes them unable to detoxify---this is why drugs and chemicals of all kinds are more dangerous to our folks than most of the population. I have counseled too many parents who found themselves and their child in an irreversible Hell after going down the Abilify road. Just don't do it. It might work for the first few months, or even years for some, but you won't know that you've built your "house" right over a sink hole until it is too late and the foundation of your life is ripped away. There are so many stuck in that hole because not only do these mind-altering drugs then become the CAUSE of 90% of the behavior problems, but they are so addictive that the very behaviors that were originally trying to treat become intensified 20 times and go entirely off the charts when you try to remove or even reduce those drugs. This addiction is exactly what the BigPharma goal is---to keep those prescriptions flowing for a lifetime. Sorry I have ranted, but it makes me sick to my bones what prescription-happy doctors are doing to our kids.

My son was on this around 6yrs old & didn't do what the doctor wanted to it to do so he changed it. What works for my son today is Intuniv.