neednewtechnique
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Somehow, I managed to land our 13 year old and our 5 year old at their psychiatrist appointments on the SAME DAY, and only had to take ONE day off work this month!!! Luck of the draw, yes!!! Anyway, so I already posted about my 5 year old's first appointment with her psychiatrist, and now to talk about our 13 year old.....
She started the Lamictal a while ago, with GREAT results as I have already mentioned, but psychiatrist still wanted to try to increase, at least to try to even her out a little more. She said if not much changes, we can go back to the 25, and both difficult child and I were fine with trying it out to see what happens.
The strange thing was, I thought that Lamictal was to be a 1x/day thing, and she wants us to try to stay with 25mg in the morning, and then have her take the other 25mg after school...
Have any of you ever heard of this?? Splitting up the Lamictal dosages to two different parts of the day?? Since I thought this medication lasted ALL DAY, I was wondering if any of you know WHAT this is supposed to help with, and if I should have any concerns about sleep, etc... I know, I should have asked these questions when we were there, but somehow I managed to draw a COMPLETE blank in her office and couldn't think of anything at all to say!!!!
Other than that, I guess all good things to report, except for the things going on with her bio mom right now, everything else is going well for her. She has been almost an entire month without cutting herself, which is a GREAT accomplishment for her. ESPECIALLY considering everything going on with bio mom right now. She is convinced that her mom doesn't love her anymore. I just tried to explain that with mom JUST getting out of rehab, that if things might be different this time, mom probably just needs some time. She has been through a lot, and although it for her now, it might be better in the long run, because if things are so different this time, maybe that means she is taking steps in the RIGHT direction, and hopefully rehab will STICK this time, and she will keep herself clean...I told difficult child to just try to give her some time and see what happens. Also tried to re-assure difficult child that her mom DOES love her, she is just going through a lot right now and maybe she just needs to focus on her for a while.
I don't really know at all ANYTHING about what it's like to be in prison, jail, or drug rehab, so maybe that is all a pile of cr@%, but it sounded good, and without making any promises as to the future of their relationship, was able to help difficult child feel better. Hopefully I did the right thing there??? Only time will tell...
She started the Lamictal a while ago, with GREAT results as I have already mentioned, but psychiatrist still wanted to try to increase, at least to try to even her out a little more. She said if not much changes, we can go back to the 25, and both difficult child and I were fine with trying it out to see what happens.
The strange thing was, I thought that Lamictal was to be a 1x/day thing, and she wants us to try to stay with 25mg in the morning, and then have her take the other 25mg after school...
Have any of you ever heard of this?? Splitting up the Lamictal dosages to two different parts of the day?? Since I thought this medication lasted ALL DAY, I was wondering if any of you know WHAT this is supposed to help with, and if I should have any concerns about sleep, etc... I know, I should have asked these questions when we were there, but somehow I managed to draw a COMPLETE blank in her office and couldn't think of anything at all to say!!!!
Other than that, I guess all good things to report, except for the things going on with her bio mom right now, everything else is going well for her. She has been almost an entire month without cutting herself, which is a GREAT accomplishment for her. ESPECIALLY considering everything going on with bio mom right now. She is convinced that her mom doesn't love her anymore. I just tried to explain that with mom JUST getting out of rehab, that if things might be different this time, mom probably just needs some time. She has been through a lot, and although it for her now, it might be better in the long run, because if things are so different this time, maybe that means she is taking steps in the RIGHT direction, and hopefully rehab will STICK this time, and she will keep herself clean...I told difficult child to just try to give her some time and see what happens. Also tried to re-assure difficult child that her mom DOES love her, she is just going through a lot right now and maybe she just needs to focus on her for a while.
I don't really know at all ANYTHING about what it's like to be in prison, jail, or drug rehab, so maybe that is all a pile of cr@%, but it sounded good, and without making any promises as to the future of their relationship, was able to help difficult child feel better. Hopefully I did the right thing there??? Only time will tell...