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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 150221" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>Thank you all for the support and well wishes!! I just got back about an hour ago from visiting. difficult child says they gave hime no medications last night and took blood at 5:00 am this morning (I hope the "no medications" last night was intentional- to monitor blood levels- and not a mistake). He said they gave him his medications this morning- including the zyprexa, which I had been giving him during the evening because it made him sleep so much. He said he took two naps today during "must stay in room time". I hope they are aware that he was in there sleeping so they don't think he can take zyprexa in the mornings then go to school and function and have normal sleeping habits at night. Let's just say- he definitely can't do it at home.</p><p></p><p>The lady at the nurse's station questioned why seroquel wasn't tried before zyprexa (by regular psychiatrist) because she says it is not as hard on the system. difficult child is very jittery but I think that is the higher dose of lithobid- which is why regular psychiatrist added zyprexa with hopes of lowering liithobid or removing it completely. </p><p></p><p>Of course, I don't think this short psychiatric hospital stay will solve all problems, but difficult child was having too difficult time functioning and with so many legal people involved, I couldn't sit here banking on it getting better the way we were going. And, hopefully, the psychiatric hospital staff can make suggestions for iep and aftercare that will be useful. I go up tomorrow for the first meeting about that kind of stuff.</p><p></p><p>Oh, it sounds like difficult child is having to explain over and over to different people that "no, he really has no intention or plan to attack or kill a cop". <em>Oops- sorry son- I tried to clarify to them last night that I really didn't think this statement was too serious. But you know, you had been walking around on the roof, and look at what you did to the landscape stuff and house.....and, think about how much you had shut down and couldn't really function..</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 150221, member: 3699"] Thank you all for the support and well wishes!! I just got back about an hour ago from visiting. difficult child says they gave hime no medications last night and took blood at 5:00 am this morning (I hope the "no medications" last night was intentional- to monitor blood levels- and not a mistake). He said they gave him his medications this morning- including the zyprexa, which I had been giving him during the evening because it made him sleep so much. He said he took two naps today during "must stay in room time". I hope they are aware that he was in there sleeping so they don't think he can take zyprexa in the mornings then go to school and function and have normal sleeping habits at night. Let's just say- he definitely can't do it at home. The lady at the nurse's station questioned why seroquel wasn't tried before zyprexa (by regular psychiatrist) because she says it is not as hard on the system. difficult child is very jittery but I think that is the higher dose of lithobid- which is why regular psychiatrist added zyprexa with hopes of lowering liithobid or removing it completely. Of course, I don't think this short psychiatric hospital stay will solve all problems, but difficult child was having too difficult time functioning and with so many legal people involved, I couldn't sit here banking on it getting better the way we were going. And, hopefully, the psychiatric hospital staff can make suggestions for iep and aftercare that will be useful. I go up tomorrow for the first meeting about that kind of stuff. Oh, it sounds like difficult child is having to explain over and over to different people that "no, he really has no intention or plan to attack or kill a cop". [I]Oops- sorry son- I tried to clarify to them last night that I really didn't think this statement was too serious. But you know, you had been walking around on the roof, and look at what you did to the landscape stuff and house.....and, think about how much you had shut down and couldn't really function..[/I] [/QUOTE]
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