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<blockquote data-quote="Steely" data-source="post: 139364" data-attributes="member: 3301"><p>Sounds like you had some excellent testing - and although it seems like you did not get much out of it today - in the future you will be glad you have all of that information the tests provided. However, the tests can only rule out things that are actually neurological, tangible disorders - they cannot prove one has a specific mental illness diagnosis or another - it is still a guessing game on the doctors part.</p><p></p><p>Therefore if you do not feel comfortable with the doctors analysis of the situation, you can take the testing that was done, and give it to another dr for another opinion. However, I can also tell you that at age 8 doctors are still hesitant to use the bi-polar diagnosis. Forever, difficult child had the diagnosis of mood disorder not otherwise specified - because all of the doctors could had one reason or another why he did not exactly fit the bi-polar criteria. Which is fine - it did not really bother me - as long as we were using medications and therapy that worked for him.</p><p></p><p>If this dr has decided your daughter is depressed, and she needs medications - but she has horrible reactions to SRIs - what is the doctors plan for treating her?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steely, post: 139364, member: 3301"] Sounds like you had some excellent testing - and although it seems like you did not get much out of it today - in the future you will be glad you have all of that information the tests provided. However, the tests can only rule out things that are actually neurological, tangible disorders - they cannot prove one has a specific mental illness diagnosis or another - it is still a guessing game on the doctors part. Therefore if you do not feel comfortable with the doctors analysis of the situation, you can take the testing that was done, and give it to another dr for another opinion. However, I can also tell you that at age 8 doctors are still hesitant to use the bi-polar diagnosis. Forever, difficult child had the diagnosis of mood disorder not otherwise specified - because all of the doctors could had one reason or another why he did not exactly fit the bi-polar criteria. Which is fine - it did not really bother me - as long as we were using medications and therapy that worked for him. If this dr has decided your daughter is depressed, and she needs medications - but she has horrible reactions to SRIs - what is the doctors plan for treating her? [/QUOTE]
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