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Darn! Zoloft seems like failure for difficult child. Weight loss and maybe other side effects
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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 593467" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>I know SSRIs tend to show their true colours both in good and bad slowly. And four weeks is a short time with them. For difficult child there has clearly already been some positive effects, but lack of appetite doesn't seem to be going away (and I think it is like Nerf described and really makes it difficult for him to eat enough) and difficult child doesn't seem to be ready to take a risk he looses more weight. I have to say that I would hope that he would be ready to try to tweak a dose and wait and see if it gets better, but I'm not the one who has lost all gain of countless hours at gym from the last year and who will be redoing it to get there he was just a month ago. </p><p></p><p>I would also wish that he would be little bit more patient with trials of these medications. That August will come awfully quickly when you consider the times one has to test one medication before you know if it works or not and are side effects going away or not. But I'm also ambivalent with that. Because it is a boundary he has drawn after listening experts and making compromise. It may not be a boundary I'm thrilled of, but I'm thrilled that he is drawing boundaries. I mean, I'm sure he expressed it to his psychiatrist with something like: "Okay, I will try these if you say I have to, but at least I will not try anything new after August and mess my season." And lots of pouting, but even if the way to express it may have been immature (at least how he told me about it, was), it still is proactive boundary he has drawn after listening advice and making decision about his own medical care from his point of view. And that is almost bigger than any medication. </p><p></p><p>He did meet a team MD today, but I don't know what he said or what was decided. When I called difficult child to ask, he didn't have time to talk with me, he was playing golf. <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/Graemlins/1010hammer.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":hammer:" title="hammer :hammer:" data-shortname=":hammer:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 593467, member: 14557"] I know SSRIs tend to show their true colours both in good and bad slowly. And four weeks is a short time with them. For difficult child there has clearly already been some positive effects, but lack of appetite doesn't seem to be going away (and I think it is like Nerf described and really makes it difficult for him to eat enough) and difficult child doesn't seem to be ready to take a risk he looses more weight. I have to say that I would hope that he would be ready to try to tweak a dose and wait and see if it gets better, but I'm not the one who has lost all gain of countless hours at gym from the last year and who will be redoing it to get there he was just a month ago. I would also wish that he would be little bit more patient with trials of these medications. That August will come awfully quickly when you consider the times one has to test one medication before you know if it works or not and are side effects going away or not. But I'm also ambivalent with that. Because it is a boundary he has drawn after listening experts and making compromise. It may not be a boundary I'm thrilled of, but I'm thrilled that he is drawing boundaries. I mean, I'm sure he expressed it to his psychiatrist with something like: "Okay, I will try these if you say I have to, but at least I will not try anything new after August and mess my season." And lots of pouting, but even if the way to express it may have been immature (at least how he told me about it, was), it still is proactive boundary he has drawn after listening advice and making decision about his own medical care from his point of view. And that is almost bigger than any medication. He did meet a team MD today, but I don't know what he said or what was decided. When I called difficult child to ask, he didn't have time to talk with me, he was playing golf. :hammer: [/QUOTE]
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