This may sound crazy but here it goes.
My son has been doing VERY well. Honor roll at school (school for special needs), compliant for the most part and able to get past things easier when things start to escalate.
He has asked a lot about his medications. Why? When will I get off of them? Can I take less since I am in control? and so on.
We talked to his doctor about maybe, slowly reducing a medication and see how it goes. psychiatrist agreed to try and decided to try to reducing the depakote. He has been taking 250 ER in the morning and 250 ER at bedtime. We decided to change the morning dosage to the 125 sprinkle and we started this on yesterday (Friday).
OMG he has been incredibly emotional. He cried A LOT today. At one point he cried for 45 straight minutes. We have not seen this in SOOO long.
So the question is, could this change in dosage make such a difference already?
I feel stupid for even playing with his medications since he has been doing so well. I sort of think, "If it ain't broken, don't fix it".
Any thoughts or experiences regarding weaning depakote would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Bugsy's mom
My son has been doing VERY well. Honor roll at school (school for special needs), compliant for the most part and able to get past things easier when things start to escalate.
He has asked a lot about his medications. Why? When will I get off of them? Can I take less since I am in control? and so on.
We talked to his doctor about maybe, slowly reducing a medication and see how it goes. psychiatrist agreed to try and decided to try to reducing the depakote. He has been taking 250 ER in the morning and 250 ER at bedtime. We decided to change the morning dosage to the 125 sprinkle and we started this on yesterday (Friday).
OMG he has been incredibly emotional. He cried A LOT today. At one point he cried for 45 straight minutes. We have not seen this in SOOO long.
So the question is, could this change in dosage make such a difference already?
I feel stupid for even playing with his medications since he has been doing so well. I sort of think, "If it ain't broken, don't fix it".
Any thoughts or experiences regarding weaning depakote would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Bugsy's mom