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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 193481" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>Thanks, SW! I'm thinking we aren't at the best and final mix of medications yet. It's just that we found something that keeps difficult child relatively stable most of the time and we had to let that last for a while without taking even the slightest risk- legal issues, you know.</p><p></p><p>psychiatrist wasn't fond of seroquel for difficult child- I don't know exactly why but he did say that given difficult child's high sensitivity to medications, he thought it would be risky to put him through the process of getting him to a good therapuetic dose. He said difficult child could end up feeling knocked out for a week, for one thing and school has been an important factor- because of sd and the gal was involved at that point. Also, psychiatrist said he preferred risperdal for difficult child and I read that rispersdol is good for raging. Anyway, I am open- especially if it means less medications in the mix. I guess difficult child's mix isn't all that many, but lithobid only coming in 300 mg pills means that difficult child takes 6 pills a day- on a good day.</p><p></p><p>The other "option" I threw out to psychiatrist- what if, as difficult child is growing very fast and weighs more, instead of raising the depakote dosage as would normally be expected, we keep it where it is and let the growth/weight start outweighing the dosage, if that makes any sense. He said he'd leave this one up to me as a trial because it's the lithobid taking care of the major stuff.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 193481, member: 3699"] Thanks, SW! I'm thinking we aren't at the best and final mix of medications yet. It's just that we found something that keeps difficult child relatively stable most of the time and we had to let that last for a while without taking even the slightest risk- legal issues, you know. psychiatrist wasn't fond of seroquel for difficult child- I don't know exactly why but he did say that given difficult child's high sensitivity to medications, he thought it would be risky to put him through the process of getting him to a good therapuetic dose. He said difficult child could end up feeling knocked out for a week, for one thing and school has been an important factor- because of sd and the gal was involved at that point. Also, psychiatrist said he preferred risperdal for difficult child and I read that rispersdol is good for raging. Anyway, I am open- especially if it means less medications in the mix. I guess difficult child's mix isn't all that many, but lithobid only coming in 300 mg pills means that difficult child takes 6 pills a day- on a good day. The other "option" I threw out to psychiatrist- what if, as difficult child is growing very fast and weighs more, instead of raising the depakote dosage as would normally be expected, we keep it where it is and let the growth/weight start outweighing the dosage, if that makes any sense. He said he'd leave this one up to me as a trial because it's the lithobid taking care of the major stuff. [/QUOTE]
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