Meds for Autism Not Well Understood: Study

I have Aspergers Syndrome~ there are NO MEDS for this, only pills to compensate for the anxiety I deal with. Anxiety is a big deal....I don't like drugs...and I run a half-million dollar budget. People can be intrusive and I am OCD on some things.....that is life in a nutshell....The Aspergers doesnt go away.....I have moments where I "get it " and some where I dont.

My daughter has autism, I'd rather take the chance on meds that are not approved for autism, than to have none. Without meds, she literally can't function. She couldn't stand the sensory effect of lights, could barely eat, her OCD was so bad that she couldn't leave the room without performing 45 minute rituals. She mostly sat in a dark room with a blanket over her head and cried. I did some crying myself. Now, on meds. She is happy, can go to school, play, and enjoy a whole other quality of life. Now, she was diagnosed severe, she is moderate now with functional speech, but every situation is unique. We also do special diet, and therapies.it is scary to try meds, but when you've ran out of resources, you have to make really tough decisions.

These meds are in good company; most psych meds are poorly understood and the benefits are not biologically quantifiable. Bizarre.

We've never figured out how acetominophren works yet we give that every day to children. There is much more that we don't know than do know. The human brain is the real final frontier.

omg really? ya think? If you can't understand the disease, you can't possibly understand the drugs that are being tossed out willy nilly!

So they want to treat something that they don't have a clue about even though they have been saying that it was genetic for over twenty years now.How are we to trust these so called experts when they seemingly don't have a clue.

Seriously - PEOPLE -as soon as you can explain neuroplasticity where the limibic system is and how it works, the common co comorbidities of the different "disorders/disease" of that part of the brain and how genes/environment/cognition/neurotransmitters/neurohormones interact (which they are just begining to look at 60 of the 1000s we know exist) - then you can have a MARGINALLY educated opinion on this - there is NO ONE MAGIC BULLET EXPLANATION!
Autism - as with all metal disorders/disease (this is even up for grabs - could be variation among the population) - varies from individual to individual. Some will have some symptoms (varying in severity and number) while other will have milder/fewer symptoms - Just as people with small squamous oat cell cancer have it in different parts of lung, leading to fewer/more symptoms and faster/ longer time of death. Just as the majority schizophrenics do not hear voices and are not violent - just because your kid does XYZ - does not mean their kid does XYZ - they may just do X and Z and the meds help with that.
NOT ALL Autistic people are uncommunicative, pull their hair and need to be institutionalized and NOT ALL autistic people are Bill Gates - the population falls in a spectrum. And Asperger's should STAY part of the spectrum!

If a medication isn't understood, why would you give it to children? The side-effects may be worse than the disease.

Another thing that may be a misconception that many more boys have autism than girls. Boys are dx'd more often because girls may present symptoms differently than boys.
Boys are more likely to be dx'd than girls. Autistic girls may get no dx or are dx with Bipolar or something else.

According to specialists like Dr. Bruce Cohen, a mitochondrial expert at the Cleveland Clinic and Dr. Mario Capecchi, a Nobel Prize winning geneticist, mental illnesses like autism have been linked to an underlying immune and mitochondrial dysfunction so wouldn'tt it make more sense for doctors to treat the immune system than to push SSRI drugs that noone has a clue as to what the effect will be?

I have 2 children with fragile x syndrome...which is on the worst end of the autistic scale...there are no meds to cure my children.. ...and most doctors refuse to even treat them. I will NEVER allow my children to be used as human guinea pigs for medications ....I am actually very ANTI drugs...all it does most times is mask the illness, and dope the kids to high heaven....which is more for parental convenience than a help to the actual child.

Every person I have known personally had worse side effects with these drugs than the problem they were attempting to treat. I have two children with autism and have never used drugs on them, and probably never will. I personally had serious adverse effects from psychological drugs and don't trust them being used on my children.

We opposed untested adult psychiatric medications for our son's Asperger's and ADHD. He does take a 12 hour generic concerta, but ritalin category medications have a proven track record with kids who have ADHD. There is nothing for autism spectrum disorders. If our son only had Aspergers and did not have severe hyperactivity he would not even be on concerta.

I learned I had ADHD as an adult and I see many behaviors that used to get me in trouble in my son, but he's growing out of many just like I did. Stimulants don't work alone and therapy and good parenting skills do not always work alone. Some kids need medication, but why use antipsychotics or antidepressants when there is no evidence that they work outside of the specific conditions they were developed for?

Medication cannot fix my son with Asperger's, he is who he is, and he deals with the hand he was dealt.

Yes...we need more studies...to show us how smaller classrooms and more emphasis on helping out the teachers..oh, wait, that does not make pharmaceutical companies rich. Before anyone gets the wrong idea...I am autistic and we have 4 other family members with it. i have had life-threatening reactions to abilfy and lamictal. My family states I am better off all meds...the meds only made things worse, that's not to judge other's choices. But, to me, pharmaceuticals should come low on the list.

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Also, I'll say that infantile autism and asbergers are so completely different.

Psychiatrists are the worst garbage. They lie, expect your kid to take meds, and think that any change in behavior is sickness. If they had to take meds, then they would be worried about the side effects. But otherwise, they are fine quite literally shoving their agenda down our throats.

We already knew we don't have a clear understanding of meds for autism. I'm so glad they did a study to confirm this.

Up next: A study confirms that we don't know why money is spent on these studies. A follow up study will be done to see if monkey have any idea.

My son did terribly on meds during the brief time he was on them. When I researched and found that many of our kids have chronic neuroinflammation, in the GI and brain, I put my son on Lutimax (Luteolin) a natural anti-inflammatory and on probiotics. When it comes to autism, natural treatment is the way to go b/c there are no bad side effects or the side effects are minimal. Much safer IMO for addressing underlying problems. associte wih autim