BlueInanna, I'm glad you care enough to find help for him. I'm sorry for what you and your son have been going through. Is this his first med? I ask because I wish in the past I had asked for the 'first line of treatment', and tried all those before they jumped straight to the meds they are pushed to prescribe the most. I feel like that is often the first med given by docs that don't care. I think it can be found on the net, or make them show you. It's not right to treat people like they are stupid. Once I was given one that made me very suicidal, and I knew it was the med, they didn't care and kept upping it, 3 times, and it'd get worse every time, till i said i stopped taking it. Then they said, omg you can get a rash and die if you just stop that, its dangerous for you to be on since you did that! And took me off of it. I doubt they even took the time to look up from their paper. I hope you are able to find a good doc and meds that work well for him soon. -Keeping you in my thoughts.