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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 156823" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>I, agree, Smallworld. We never had a problem with his medication compliance before (2+ years), so even though I am watching closer and handling things differently now, I still encouraged difficult child to discuss how this medication was making him feel with psychiatrist. From that regard, I think it might have been good that psychiatrist changed to a different AP. Inspecting difficult child's mouth can only last until he's 18, at the longest. Him learning that he needs medications to function appropriately and that if one is making him feel worse, to discuss it with the doctor is a lesson that he'll need for the rest of his life. And, one I will support. If a medication made him feel that bad then it wasn't the right answer. He has hung in there pretty well in the past. </p><p></p><p>Every increase in lithium caused him stomach flu-like symptoms for several days and he withstood that. When it got to a point of lasting several weeks, he still took the lithium but I said we would discuss it with psychiatrist because it wasn't an acceptable solution. psychiatrist then switched him to lithobid, which solved the problem. So, I will just keep an extra eye to see if there is a remaining problem or if this does it. Of course, there will be times in the future when he thinks he can come off medications for a while, I'm sure.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 156823, member: 3699"] I, agree, Smallworld. We never had a problem with his medication compliance before (2+ years), so even though I am watching closer and handling things differently now, I still encouraged difficult child to discuss how this medication was making him feel with psychiatrist. From that regard, I think it might have been good that psychiatrist changed to a different AP. Inspecting difficult child's mouth can only last until he's 18, at the longest. Him learning that he needs medications to function appropriately and that if one is making him feel worse, to discuss it with the doctor is a lesson that he'll need for the rest of his life. And, one I will support. If a medication made him feel that bad then it wasn't the right answer. He has hung in there pretty well in the past. Every increase in lithium caused him stomach flu-like symptoms for several days and he withstood that. When it got to a point of lasting several weeks, he still took the lithium but I said we would discuss it with psychiatrist because it wasn't an acceptable solution. psychiatrist then switched him to lithobid, which solved the problem. So, I will just keep an extra eye to see if there is a remaining problem or if this does it. Of course, there will be times in the future when he thinks he can come off medications for a while, I'm sure. [/QUOTE]
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