My son is 8 and started havin fits at 3 months, he came off is meds but is now h!
Question: His intellectually disabled and now is acting even more weird, granted his off his medication.
I want to try him on something else which wont affect his personality as I believe other anti-fit meds caused him to have ADHD as before he started them he was a good baby and toodler, and I didnt have much problems with him other than his developmental delay.
Answers: His intellectually disabled and now is acting even more weird, granted his off his medication.
I want to try him on something else which wont affect his personality as I believe other anti-fit meds caused him to have ADHD as before he started them he was a good baby and toodler, and I didnt have much problems with him other than his developmental delay.
Sounds like you have it tough. Try another medication, something with less side effects. Have you tried concerta for the ADHD its meant to work for 12 hours rather than just a couple like ADHD drugs such as ritalin. Epilepsy isn't the type illness one can treat without medication. Take him to a Pead and ask for a review. Sometimes one medication might stop another from working.
MEDS ARE BAD! Try taking him to therapy for his problems.
I've heard (on TV) that classes such as Judo or Karate seem to help. They learn self control and self protection at the same time. They are required to focus and this will help in the classroom, at home and throughout his lifetime.
Search google for martial arts and ADHD, I'm sure it's listed out here.
"Developmentally delayed" often refers to autism, however you want to phrase it. It would have helped had you provided information about the process/time period of taking him off the meds: most any psycho-active drug needs to be carefully reduced over time to wean someone off it such that they don't have major withdrawal symptoms. If you suddenly took him off it, or it was too fast, it's not much different than trying to force a crack addict go cold turkey suddenly, and it's not the remotest wonder that he may act wilder than you remember.
Another thing to remember is that it's likely he has sensory issues, and for the longest time, the drugs dragged down his neurochemistry in such a way that he didn't experience them as severely as now, now that he's off the drugs. He may very well be dealing with sensory overload, something you may have never been aware of. He was on drugs at 3 months? When you're saying "fits" just what do you mean, epileptic seizures? If that's the case (otherwise, someone prescribing such strong drugs to a 3 month-old baby should be taken out back and shot, because they're more likely to cause far more harm than good, if not to control epilepsy or a seizure disorder) then it's entirely probable he's still subject to epileptic seizures, and even if they aren't gran-mal seizures, and don't result in a visible loss of consciousness, behavior can be very strangely affected. Been there, done that, (to some degree) on both accounts, and also I've been weaned off of an anti-convulsant drug when young after going into febrile seizures at 2.5 years old, because my parents and I didn't like what the drugs did to me.
Your son may never fully recover from the side-effects of drugs used for that long, which is something doctors rarely tell you going in, assuming they actually know that much about a given drug when they prescribe it.