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<blockquote data-quote="hearts and roses" data-source="post: 215765" data-attributes="member: 2211"><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: indigo">I'm glad they ruled out some things, but sure wish they'd figure it out. the first thing I thought of was when easy child was about 10 years old and had cerebellitis - swelling of the cerebellum - it throws off all gross motor skills. But a c-scan would show some of the swelling and Jess's didn't. So good.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: indigo">I wanted to just tell you that back when difficult child was on medications and we were trying Lamictal, she began having horrible gait problems, incredible tremors, couldn't walk without falling down, strong headaches and even some drooling. When I called the psychiatrist she refused to even consider that it was the lamictal because difficult child was only on the starter dose and had only been on it for 5 days. She suggested that perhaps difficult child had an inner ear infection. When I took her to the allergist, he pulled out his drug reference book and read aloud to me the *possible* side effects of lamictal. Elevene percent of people who took lamictal had difficult child's symptoms, yet when a DR considers any drug, they usually overlook many of the side effects that aren't A) incredibly life threatening, and B) that occur in less than 25% of patients. </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: indigo">I strongly urge you to go back on her dosage of that medication and just see. </span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hearts and roses, post: 215765, member: 2211"] [FONT=Century Gothic][SIZE=3][COLOR=indigo]I'm glad they ruled out some things, but sure wish they'd figure it out. the first thing I thought of was when easy child was about 10 years old and had cerebellitis - swelling of the cerebellum - it throws off all gross motor skills. But a c-scan would show some of the swelling and Jess's didn't. So good.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic][SIZE=3][COLOR=indigo][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic][SIZE=3][COLOR=indigo]I wanted to just tell you that back when difficult child was on medications and we were trying Lamictal, she began having horrible gait problems, incredible tremors, couldn't walk without falling down, strong headaches and even some drooling. When I called the psychiatrist she refused to even consider that it was the lamictal because difficult child was only on the starter dose and had only been on it for 5 days. She suggested that perhaps difficult child had an inner ear infection. When I took her to the allergist, he pulled out his drug reference book and read aloud to me the *possible* side effects of lamictal. Elevene percent of people who took lamictal had difficult child's symptoms, yet when a DR considers any drug, they usually overlook many of the side effects that aren't A) incredibly life threatening, and B) that occur in less than 25% of patients. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic][SIZE=3][COLOR=indigo][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic][SIZE=3][COLOR=indigo]I strongly urge you to go back on her dosage of that medication and just see. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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