The results have been phenomenal in terms of his classroom participation and improvement in his language skills. However, he gets incredibly sad while on the medication and loses about a pound a week. We tried 5 mg, and he was fine in every way except he was so irritable that we had to go back to the 10 mg.
More information is available to more people than ever before in the history of the world.
A reasonably literate, intelligent person can search the Internet and mine sources previously available only to professional specialists. And she can then bring a report or an idea, which has direct bearing on her own situation, to the attention of a psychiatrist. She has a good chance of bringing something up that the doctor hasn't heard about. Doctors are just going to have to learn to be non-defensive and gracious about it. The starting does of Prozac could be 5 mg a day or less.