Zoloft & children

Posted By Anna on May 13, 1999 at 08:06:35
My 13 year old son (who is bigger than I am) was diagnosed with irritable bowel earlier this year.  The pain has been almost constant.  He has become depressed (talking about suicide)about it but along the way the old psychiatrist thought anxiety might be aggravating it so he was taking Bentyl for the cramping, a minimal dose of Valium (2mg per day) for anxiety and muscle relaxing and just started Wellbutrin for depression.  We went to see a "holistic" psychiatrist yesterday and he said to drop the Wellbutrin and start Zoloft and Adderal (he also has mild ADD).
He is to keep up the Valium for the time being.  My son says he will not really kill himself and using Zoloft (he also mentioned Prozac, but I said "no") really scares me.  Also, school is almost over so I'm not sure why we need Adderall (adderrall).  The PDR says becareful mixing Valium and Zoloft so that makes me nervous too.
Any thoughts?  He is also seeing a pain/stress management psychologist whom he likes very much.  










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