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<blockquote data-quote="Otto von Bismark" data-source="post: 465983" data-attributes="member: 12905"><p>Thank you all so much. I have so much to reply to and so many questions, I may not hit all of them in one post. In fact, I will use this to give you an update on where we are. We have been busy -- my son got out of hospital on Thursday night. They did no testing of any kind...it seemed to be a crisis mgmt. place. We were not allowed to leave until we had psychologist and psychiatrist appointments set up. Kind of like not leaving with your new baby unless you have a car seat.</p><p></p><p>He has been very strange since he got back, partly because of the medications and partly because he learned that it was okay for him to talk about his feelings -- We have tried for years to make sure he knows that he can safely talk about his thoughts with us, but now he knows, I guess, since he said the worst of the worst and we still love him and haven't rejected him). Every night he tells us how much he wants to kill himself. It is heartbreaking.</p><p></p><p>It could be medications, in part. He was prescribed 25mg of zoloft, not 100. The 100 was the dose the hospital doctor would like to see him at. Started at 25.</p><p>Our new psychiatrist, not the hospital one, told me briefly, after informal consult, that he would never had but him on Zoloft, and that the butchers at the hospital we were in can't be trusted. Nice. Until he can see him (late October) he told me to cut the zoloft in half, to minimize side effects.</p><p></p><p>Zoloft side effects: mania, hyper by day, suicidal by night. Strange replies to conversations, answers really fast and in a weird tone, talking about how much he wants to play sports (he has strength and coordination problems and has always hated sports), when searching for my cell phone, which I told him would be around the kitchen, I found him searching through all the drawers in my bedroom! He also is up until midnight, and wakes up around 7 am. He has always needed 9-10 hours of sleep. Add this to a few hours at a time where he is completely silent. This is a chatty child who is never silent. </p><p></p><p>One thing I like to see is that he will also sits in his room with his radio on and reads comic books, and occupy his own time. This is a child who usually will do NOTHING unless I suggest it, and he follows me around the house constantly, unless I give him a direction to do something else.</p><p></p><p>I do not like Zoloft. He talks about suicide every day, which could be autism and him getting fixated on something, or it could really be his feelings, or it could be the medication. We have to assume that they are very real feelings and we are treating it as such. I don't know what good going into the hospital again would be. This is difficult. <span style="color: #ff0000">Is it possible to have a suicidal kid who just has feelings and will not act on it? </span> We have removed knives, vitamins and medicines, and he is supervised 24-7. <span style="color: #ff0000">Is that doing enough until we can see the next doctor on Wednesday?</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000"></span></p><p>Thank you for your help, people. I have learned so much from these posts, and am grateful.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Otto von Bismark, post: 465983, member: 12905"] Thank you all so much. I have so much to reply to and so many questions, I may not hit all of them in one post. In fact, I will use this to give you an update on where we are. We have been busy -- my son got out of hospital on Thursday night. They did no testing of any kind...it seemed to be a crisis mgmt. place. We were not allowed to leave until we had psychologist and psychiatrist appointments set up. Kind of like not leaving with your new baby unless you have a car seat. He has been very strange since he got back, partly because of the medications and partly because he learned that it was okay for him to talk about his feelings -- We have tried for years to make sure he knows that he can safely talk about his thoughts with us, but now he knows, I guess, since he said the worst of the worst and we still love him and haven't rejected him). Every night he tells us how much he wants to kill himself. It is heartbreaking. It could be medications, in part. He was prescribed 25mg of zoloft, not 100. The 100 was the dose the hospital doctor would like to see him at. Started at 25. Our new psychiatrist, not the hospital one, told me briefly, after informal consult, that he would never had but him on Zoloft, and that the butchers at the hospital we were in can't be trusted. Nice. Until he can see him (late October) he told me to cut the zoloft in half, to minimize side effects. Zoloft side effects: mania, hyper by day, suicidal by night. Strange replies to conversations, answers really fast and in a weird tone, talking about how much he wants to play sports (he has strength and coordination problems and has always hated sports), when searching for my cell phone, which I told him would be around the kitchen, I found him searching through all the drawers in my bedroom! He also is up until midnight, and wakes up around 7 am. He has always needed 9-10 hours of sleep. Add this to a few hours at a time where he is completely silent. This is a chatty child who is never silent. One thing I like to see is that he will also sits in his room with his radio on and reads comic books, and occupy his own time. This is a child who usually will do NOTHING unless I suggest it, and he follows me around the house constantly, unless I give him a direction to do something else. I do not like Zoloft. He talks about suicide every day, which could be autism and him getting fixated on something, or it could really be his feelings, or it could be the medication. We have to assume that they are very real feelings and we are treating it as such. I don't know what good going into the hospital again would be. This is difficult. [COLOR=#ff0000]Is it possible to have a suicidal kid who just has feelings and will not act on it? [/COLOR] We have removed knives, vitamins and medicines, and he is supervised 24-7. [COLOR=#ff0000]Is that doing enough until we can see the next doctor on Wednesday? [/COLOR] Thank you for your help, people. I have learned so much from these posts, and am grateful. [/QUOTE]
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