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<blockquote data-quote="buddy" data-source="post: 467813" data-attributes="member: 12886"><p>Welcome, so glad you found this board. I wish I would have found it 10 years ago! My only advice really is to stick with this group because even if you receive posts that dont fit, you will receive posts! People here really care and it has been a life line for the past couple of weeks that I have been here. </p><p></p><p>I would second the re-evaluation/complete evaluation suggestion. For sure there is childhood bi-polar and it can look very different from the adult form. I am no expert, just have had students and friends dealing with it. My son has mood swing issues and for him it is a brain trauma thing. medications are super tricky. </p><p></p><p>When it comes to chaning medications, do what you feel is right for her but many of us have some little routines to do it....Like for me, he will never have a medication CHANGE during school time unless it is an emergency. I wait for long breaks. If it includes going off a medication and starting another I wait till summer (again, if not an emergency). If it is an increase or decrease, I do it on the weekends... you get the idea. I wouldn't have thought it such a big idea until my son had a psychotic reaction to a medication. This has happened once since about 7 years after the first. Found out he has an enzyme issue and can't process many medications so I am ultra careful and only stick with very conservative docs when it comes to dosing.</p><p></p><p>You sound like a really great family. She is lucky to have you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="buddy, post: 467813, member: 12886"] Welcome, so glad you found this board. I wish I would have found it 10 years ago! My only advice really is to stick with this group because even if you receive posts that dont fit, you will receive posts! People here really care and it has been a life line for the past couple of weeks that I have been here. I would second the re-evaluation/complete evaluation suggestion. For sure there is childhood bi-polar and it can look very different from the adult form. I am no expert, just have had students and friends dealing with it. My son has mood swing issues and for him it is a brain trauma thing. medications are super tricky. When it comes to chaning medications, do what you feel is right for her but many of us have some little routines to do it....Like for me, he will never have a medication CHANGE during school time unless it is an emergency. I wait for long breaks. If it includes going off a medication and starting another I wait till summer (again, if not an emergency). If it is an increase or decrease, I do it on the weekends... you get the idea. I wouldn't have thought it such a big idea until my son had a psychotic reaction to a medication. This has happened once since about 7 years after the first. Found out he has an enzyme issue and can't process many medications so I am ultra careful and only stick with very conservative docs when it comes to dosing. You sound like a really great family. She is lucky to have you. [/QUOTE]
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