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Please Help! Is My Son's Pediatrician's diagnosis Correct?
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<blockquote data-quote="newly worried parent" data-source="post: 442122" data-attributes="member: 12314"><p>Wow, thank you all for the suggestions. This is wonderful! To answer your question Midwestmom, no I have not taken him to a neurologist yet. To be honest, this past visit we had was to see if he had ADD. That's when he gave him the current diagnosis. His pediatrician "specializes" in ADD/ADHD. What does "specialize" mean? I don't know. This has all happened so quickly and I don't really know anything about it all, so I really didn't know what steps to take or what to look up. That's why I decided to get online lastnight to see if I could get some feedback from other Moms that have been through the same things. That seemed more reliable to me than banking on whatever his pediatrician says. I guess my biggest fear is I don't want to start him on medications because this is what he "appears" to have, because then I may be medicating him for a condition he doesn't even have. I feel like messing with the chemicals of the brain when there is nothing wrong with them is just asking for something to go wrong with them. </p><p></p><p>As far as the guanfasine is concerned for the tic disorder...It's <em>kinda</em> working. Like I said earlier, at first it stopped them altogether. Then when he hurt his neck they came back worse than ever. Now that his neck is feeling better he is not doing them as much as he was originally and the throat clearing has gone away completely. However, he is still doing them some. So....</p><p></p><p>But what do you all think about the Lamictal? He took 1/2 a 25mg pill yesterday morning and 1/2 at night and 1/2 this morn. Should I stop this before he really gets into it to much? Maybe get him into a neuro 1st? Here's the thing: I know how most of these medications (such as antidepressants;stimulants;etc...) work. They from what I know any I have ever heard of always take 2-4+ weeks to see any effects from it. Well, I know this sounds crazy and it's probably just a coinsidence and not the medication, but yesterday and today have been the best days he's had since probably before all of this started! Literally! He's not cranky in the least; Is, OMG get ready for this, being super nice and patient with his little brother; Is just in a happy go lucky mood. Literally it's like I have my son back! Is it at all possible for him to be having these effects from the medications already? If this is possible and this is what we have to look forward to, then I really don't want to stop it. This is wonderful for us all!</p><p></p><p>Anyhow, please keep the suggestions coming. I'm gonna look into them all! </p><p></p><p>Thanks Again</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="newly worried parent, post: 442122, member: 12314"] Wow, thank you all for the suggestions. This is wonderful! To answer your question Midwestmom, no I have not taken him to a neurologist yet. To be honest, this past visit we had was to see if he had ADD. That's when he gave him the current diagnosis. His pediatrician "specializes" in ADD/ADHD. What does "specialize" mean? I don't know. This has all happened so quickly and I don't really know anything about it all, so I really didn't know what steps to take or what to look up. That's why I decided to get online lastnight to see if I could get some feedback from other Moms that have been through the same things. That seemed more reliable to me than banking on whatever his pediatrician says. I guess my biggest fear is I don't want to start him on medications because this is what he "appears" to have, because then I may be medicating him for a condition he doesn't even have. I feel like messing with the chemicals of the brain when there is nothing wrong with them is just asking for something to go wrong with them. As far as the guanfasine is concerned for the tic disorder...It's [I]kinda[/I] working. Like I said earlier, at first it stopped them altogether. Then when he hurt his neck they came back worse than ever. Now that his neck is feeling better he is not doing them as much as he was originally and the throat clearing has gone away completely. However, he is still doing them some. So.... But what do you all think about the Lamictal? He took 1/2 a 25mg pill yesterday morning and 1/2 at night and 1/2 this morn. Should I stop this before he really gets into it to much? Maybe get him into a neuro 1st? Here's the thing: I know how most of these medications (such as antidepressants;stimulants;etc...) work. They from what I know any I have ever heard of always take 2-4+ weeks to see any effects from it. Well, I know this sounds crazy and it's probably just a coinsidence and not the medication, but yesterday and today have been the best days he's had since probably before all of this started! Literally! He's not cranky in the least; Is, OMG get ready for this, being super nice and patient with his little brother; Is just in a happy go lucky mood. Literally it's like I have my son back! Is it at all possible for him to be having these effects from the medications already? If this is possible and this is what we have to look forward to, then I really don't want to stop it. This is wonderful for us all! Anyhow, please keep the suggestions coming. I'm gonna look into them all! Thanks Again [/QUOTE]
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