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My heart broke for difficult child last night
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<blockquote data-quote="somerset" data-source="post: 486823" data-attributes="member: 13320"><p>First, I want to say that my daughter is almost exactly like yours. She's 14 and failing all of her classes her first semester of high school due to poor attendance. She's got a history of sleep problems and being exhausted prior to being depressed, and the neurologist (who she sees for migraines) suggested a sleep study earlier this year, but difficult child refused and I relented. Now I'm going to press the issue again. I know you're considering it too, and I think you should. It's so hard to get doctors to really check for physical causes. They just want to blame everything on the depression. But how can <em>we </em>be confident that it's only the depression unless they thoroughly rule other things out? And how do we know they're not depressed because they're exhausted and feel horrible? I wish I knew Dr. House. He'd figure it out! </p><p></p><p>I wonder why the psychiatrist is making her wean off the Zoloft before she starts the new medications. That, in my opinion, guarantees her depression will worsen and she may have withdrawal symptoms. My psychiatrist has me gradually reduce the dose of the old medications while gradually increasing the dose of the new. That way I'm always covered. I'm on Wellbutrin now and it's activating - it gives me more energy. It sounds like she could really use that right now. Maybe the doctor could get her on it sooner?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="somerset, post: 486823, member: 13320"] First, I want to say that my daughter is almost exactly like yours. She's 14 and failing all of her classes her first semester of high school due to poor attendance. She's got a history of sleep problems and being exhausted prior to being depressed, and the neurologist (who she sees for migraines) suggested a sleep study earlier this year, but difficult child refused and I relented. Now I'm going to press the issue again. I know you're considering it too, and I think you should. It's so hard to get doctors to really check for physical causes. They just want to blame everything on the depression. But how can [I]we [/I]be confident that it's only the depression unless they thoroughly rule other things out? And how do we know they're not depressed because they're exhausted and feel horrible? I wish I knew Dr. House. He'd figure it out! I wonder why the psychiatrist is making her wean off the Zoloft before she starts the new medications. That, in my opinion, guarantees her depression will worsen and she may have withdrawal symptoms. My psychiatrist has me gradually reduce the dose of the old medications while gradually increasing the dose of the new. That way I'm always covered. I'm on Wellbutrin now and it's activating - it gives me more energy. It sounds like she could really use that right now. Maybe the doctor could get her on it sooner? [/QUOTE]
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