Posted by mom on April 12, 2002, at 21:10:13
My daughter, who is 15, was diagnosed 7 months ago with major depressive disorder. She tried to commit suicide. She was originally prescribed Zoloft 100mg. this made her extremely tired, and they added Buspar to help her sleep. She was later taken off of both and put on Wellbutrin 100mg 2x day, and risperadal .05 mg We than began seeing a psychiatrist that d/c'd those meds also. She prescribed effexor 75mg and trazadone 5mg. Well, this was one month ago. A week after the med changes she informed me that she was feeling really suicidal and having thoughts of cutting herself (something she had previously done). I took her to her therapist that day, and she ended up being admitted to the adolescent psyc unit. She is still there today, it has been almost 3 weeks. They have increased her effexor to a total of 300 mg, 150XR am and pm. They also have switched her from trazadone to zyprexa 5mg 6 days ago. Three days ago she had a very out of control episode where she felt like she wanted to hurt someone or herself,and having hallucinations she had a hard time explaining exactly what happened, other than she felt totally out of control. They gave her 2.5mg of zyprexa to "calm" her down. The next day she had another one of these episodes, this time she did become violent, trying to hit hospital workers and punching the wall along with various other things. They had to restrain her and gave her 2.5mg of zyprexa again, along with 1 mg of ativan. She has never had any episodes like this in her life. She is a very calm, relaxed person. I talked with the doctor over concern of her medications and the coincidence in the timing of adding zyprexa, increasing the effexor, and these episodes happening. I was basically told I was an idiot, even though I gave reference info from Mosby's drug book... It was insisted to me that neither drug could cause this behavior. The drug book list Zyprexa of having side effects of agitation, hostility. It also says to assess for hallucinations. For effexor it list side effects of emotional lability hallucinations, hostility, psychosis, it says to assess psychiatric symptoms and suicidal tendancies.
I am truly lost as to what to do as her mother. I have never seen this behavior and it scares me to death. To me she seems no better than when she entered the hospital 3 weeks ago. I need advice on what to do... Has anyone else experienced anything like this when taking either of these drugs, or these drugs in combo? I need help fast! Thanks for any info
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