Posted by Dinah on February 27, 2005, at 19:41:34
I started at 50 mg but went quickly to 100 mg (at bedtime for what the psychiatrist wrote in his chart as night terrors) and was on it for nearly a year. I was 12, I think. I was pretty compliant about taking it, except for pretending to take one of the two pills some days and hoarding it until I had quite a stash on hand. My grades dipped from straight A's to mostly A's with an occasional A- or B. I still stayed in the top percentile in the class easily. They told me it was Valium, and I didn't find out differently until I got my pediatric chart a few years ago.
Was it really a big deal?
I admit I don't go around telling everyone, because of the stigma. But I don't remember the medication itself being so bad.
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