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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 244776" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>Terry, this might not apply to your son at all, but I'm throwing it out because I had no idea about what it meant. When my son was removed from prozac after "going manic", psychiatrist left him off all medications for 6-8 weeks. During that time, difficult child was saying things like he didn't feel pain normally during certain long periods, and other things that I wasn't sure about. The reason it's important for a psychiatrist to be involved, in my humble opinion, is that they can distinguish which chemicals in the brain effect what and what is reaction and what is true symptom. When we discussed the "pain" comment with psychiatrist, he asked about different types of pain, because apparently, different nerves/body chemistry handle a burn different from a broken arm, for example. I didn't know that, much less what that means and how that helps diagnosis and rx, but it does. I am of the frame of mind now that maybe a MS is sometimes needed even if the kid isn't true BiPolar (BP), because maybe AD's/SSRI's can't be tolerated by their system. But, that's just my speculation.</p><p></p><p>I have had tdocs and psychiatric's involved in mine and difficult child's lives who claim they could diagnosis but that, quite frankly, scares me to death when it comes to a mood disorder. I know there is no way that they can know what a MD(psychiatrist) knows about the various body chemistry and what one type of pain vs another means when it comes to needed medications. My mother has a phd in psychiatric and she didn't have to learn anything like that and wouldn't have a clue, yet, she has said that she could diagnosis Axis 1 disorders. If you take the zoloft out and symptoms don't go away soon, but you aren't real comfortable with the psychiatrist who is rx'ing this, maybe you could get another one on board.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 244776, member: 3699"] Terry, this might not apply to your son at all, but I'm throwing it out because I had no idea about what it meant. When my son was removed from prozac after "going manic", psychiatrist left him off all medications for 6-8 weeks. During that time, difficult child was saying things like he didn't feel pain normally during certain long periods, and other things that I wasn't sure about. The reason it's important for a psychiatrist to be involved, in my humble opinion, is that they can distinguish which chemicals in the brain effect what and what is reaction and what is true symptom. When we discussed the "pain" comment with psychiatrist, he asked about different types of pain, because apparently, different nerves/body chemistry handle a burn different from a broken arm, for example. I didn't know that, much less what that means and how that helps diagnosis and rx, but it does. I am of the frame of mind now that maybe a MS is sometimes needed even if the kid isn't true BiPolar (BP), because maybe AD's/SSRI's can't be tolerated by their system. But, that's just my speculation. I have had tdocs and psychiatric's involved in mine and difficult child's lives who claim they could diagnosis but that, quite frankly, scares me to death when it comes to a mood disorder. I know there is no way that they can know what a MD(psychiatrist) knows about the various body chemistry and what one type of pain vs another means when it comes to needed medications. My mother has a phd in psychiatric and she didn't have to learn anything like that and wouldn't have a clue, yet, she has said that she could diagnosis Axis 1 disorders. If you take the zoloft out and symptoms don't go away soon, but you aren't real comfortable with the psychiatrist who is rx'ing this, maybe you could get another one on board. [/QUOTE]
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