Hi,

My 11 year old son is severely autistic and has been taking risperdone medication for 10 wks now. He needs to have some bloods taken. Ive been really stressed out about it as ive prepared him with a social story of what will happen when we go the hospital but as soon as he seen the pictures he started getting anxious and shouting "no hospital" and i could definitely see him raging about this before we even get out the door. Ive shown him and told him after the hospital he can have a choose.... well that just makes things worse and i really cant see him complying at all. He has never had to have any injections for anything so i dont know what to do but we have not gone today.

Psychiatrist appointment is tomorrow for check up and see how he is doing on the med. He takes 0.5mg daily.

Just to ask could the injections been done at a later time if his check up- weight, heart rate and blood pressure are fine?

Any advice appreciated.

Thanks