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<blockquote data-quote="JRC" data-source="post: 706571" data-attributes="member: 21147"><p>Hi Samn2-</p><p></p><p>My son is about your son's age (he is 11) and he is also on Lamictal. He's been titrating up for the last year (as of Feb 3 of 2016) when he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. He's experienced the same plateaus as your son, I think, where he reaches a certain level of medication in the blood stream and is better, only to start the depression/hypomania cycling again after a few weeks. We switched doctors this past fall to a well known psychiatrist/researcher in the Boston area. She has him on 250mg of Lamictal at present, plus 15mg of Abilify. He was taking resperidol but we've weened him off (because of the switch to abilify). The abilify helps with depression as well as working as an antipsychotic, from what I understand. </p><p></p><p>Right now my son is sort of stable. Good days and bad days. Mostly depression with the occasional hypomania thrown in just to keep us on our toes. My husband and I are at our wits end, however, because he has missed so many days of school, and when he is there, he only stays till 11am (he's in 5th grade). My son said to me today that he is worried that he will be held back (they won't) and he's worried about going to middle school next year (he should be). I'm starting to look at alternative schools for him now because I just don't see him being able to handle regular public school in the future. It's depressing and makes my husband and I feel hopeless. </p><p></p><p>I'll be very curious to see what your doctor thinks should be the next step for your son's medications. I'll keep you posted about our son's next steps as well. </p><p></p><p>xo</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JRC, post: 706571, member: 21147"] Hi Samn2- My son is about your son's age (he is 11) and he is also on Lamictal. He's been titrating up for the last year (as of Feb 3 of 2016) when he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. He's experienced the same plateaus as your son, I think, where he reaches a certain level of medication in the blood stream and is better, only to start the depression/hypomania cycling again after a few weeks. We switched doctors this past fall to a well known psychiatrist/researcher in the Boston area. She has him on 250mg of Lamictal at present, plus 15mg of Abilify. He was taking resperidol but we've weened him off (because of the switch to abilify). The abilify helps with depression as well as working as an antipsychotic, from what I understand. Right now my son is sort of stable. Good days and bad days. Mostly depression with the occasional hypomania thrown in just to keep us on our toes. My husband and I are at our wits end, however, because he has missed so many days of school, and when he is there, he only stays till 11am (he's in 5th grade). My son said to me today that he is worried that he will be held back (they won't) and he's worried about going to middle school next year (he should be). I'm starting to look at alternative schools for him now because I just don't see him being able to handle regular public school in the future. It's depressing and makes my husband and I feel hopeless. I'll be very curious to see what your doctor thinks should be the next step for your son's medications. I'll keep you posted about our son's next steps as well. xo [/QUOTE]
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