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  1. S

    difficult child 2 hospitalized - update

    Spent almost an hour on the phone with the inpatient psychiatrist Dr. C. She is great and I am so relieved we got her. She's keeping him for at least a couple days, maybe a week. Dr. C said he was "all over the place" there and they had to give him both Klonopin and Trazadone to get him to sleep last...
  2. nvts

    Ok, I'm thinking Bipolar - difficult child 1 headed to psychiatric hospital. AGAIN!

    Alright. Here it is, in black and white. His diagnosis's are the following: Aspergers Syndrom, ADD inattentive type, mood disorder not otherwise specified, PTSD, ODD, and Anxiety. He had come out of a 5 week hospitalization where they weaned him off Seroquel onto Risperdahl. While her was in the psychiatric hospital, he went from a mens...
  3. B

    Possible Asperg., ODD, Sensory Integration Disorder (SID)

    Hello, I am new here and trying to memorize all of you terminology. This seems like a wonderful sight and makes me feel so unalone already. My difficult child (son) is 8y/o. When he was 3 I started realizing he was a little different than his peers. I was reading a mag. article about asperg. (never...
  4. J

    medication question

    hi does anyone know of a secondary medication that can be added to combat weight loss from any of the ap's that cause it? so, if we use seroquel and that works well, yet weight gain is a huge issue is there another medication that can be added to combat that and the sugar levels? I've been doing some...
  5. gcvmom

    Raise your hand if a little mania is starting to creep into your house this spring.

    difficult child 2 has been reeeally squirrelly the past few days. No changes in medications, but he has gotten taller, so maybe we need to get his Depakote levels checked again... He blows into the house after school now like hurricane. He's LOUD. He's EXUBERANT. He's GIDDY. He's INTRUSIVE. He talks to...
  6. gcvmom

    As if there ever were any doubt... difficult child 2 removed ALL of that with just one late dosing

    It's so easy to be lulled into a false sense of normalcy. medications are working, everyone's holding it together pretty well. You start to think, "Hey, maybe my kid doesn't really need to be on all these medications! Maybe this was all just a bad dream afterall!" On Friday, difficult child 2 didn't get his medications at...
  7. Wiped Out

    difficult child update

    Thought I would do a quick date on difficult child since I realized I never gave one after his psychiatrist weekend (at that point I was so upset with easy child's grades I forgot to post about difficult child) and had posted how manic and off he had been lately. At the appointment. we decided to try one last thing at home. difficult child's psychiatrist said...
  8. gcvmom

    Hope I didn't mess things up...

    Despite my ordering refills for difficult child 2's Depakote ER and Seroquel XR nearly two weeks ago, we seem to have about RUN OUT thanks to a psychiatrist's office that didn't respond to the pharmacy promptly. The Depakote is supposed to get here any day now (I just love three-day weekends when I'm...
  9. G

    Niece's 3rd psychiatric. hospitalization

    my niece is currently in the hospital on the psychiatric. floor due to a manic bi-polar episode. I told my brother and sister-in-law that I would take it to the "pros" and see if any of you have any advice. A little background, my niece is 23 years old, she always has been a difficult child, but always held down...
  10. J

    Lexapro side effects - do they go away?

    difficult child 2 has been taking Lexapro for almost 2 months, now. We started her at 2.5mg because she has had side effects to all the SSRI's in the past. We thought maybe some of the side effects were due to her chronic illness coming out and not the SSRI's so we are trying again. She took 2.5 mg for a...
  11. S

    MRI Results in already!

    I got a call a half hour ago (9:30 am) that Jessie's MRI results are already in. The pediatrician. Dr. W, called me to say that the pediatrician neuro had already read the MRI. There is "nothing wrong" with her brain. They conclude it is anxiety. Dr. W was very adamant that it is NOT "all in her...
  12. gcvmom

    Bumping medications (again) for difficult child 2

    We're still on the road towards stability with difficult child 2 -- and I guess we're not quite there yet, but I don't think it's going to take too much longer. At least I hope. Gee, he's 12 1/2 and first started medications at the age of 4 1/2... I guess 8 years of trial and error isn't so bad if it will mean he...
  13. R

    New Here, son prescribed Risperdal, can't bring myself to give it to him

    Hello, This is my first post. My son is 5 years old. Has been in Occupational Therapist (OT) since age 3 for sensory issues. Took him to a behavioral therapist - he said he was Bipolar & ADHD during his first appointment. Had him evaluated by a Neuropsychologist right before he turned 5. Her diagnosis was: ADHD - combined...
  14. crazymama30

    school problems, ADHD or Hypomanic?

    Alright ladies, help me out. difficult child started out the school year badly, very emotional about alot of things. We increased his Lamictal from 150mg to 200mg, and things got better. Now, he is sooo hyper. He is on the go, cannot sit still, cannot quit talking. But he is not defiant. If I ask him...
  15. JJJ

    Freaking out about budget cuts

    If the Illinois legislature doesn't get their collective butts in gear THIS WEEK, my children will lose: *their psychiatrists *their therapists *their prescription drug coverage *the autism family resource center *half of their adoption subsidy Kanga's Residential Treatment Center (RTC) should be fine as that is...
  16. K

    oh...help..anyone have reaction to Topomax

    difficult child has suffered such severe headaches for so long. It hurts to know I cannot help him. He has had every test possible. I refused the pediatricians request to go to a pediatric neurologist. Did that for two years. Did tests and put him on topomax for about two years. didn't help so he...
  17. klmno

    Big Thanks & another lithium question-

    My memory is not what it used to be and I can't find the posts where these things were listed, therefore, I'm not sure who (more than 1 person) to thank, but Thank you to: 1) Whoever made me aware that a medication reaction could be the cause of difficult child staying up 30+ hours in a row and being impossible...
  18. gcvmom

    Drug rashes and mood stabilizers...

    My darling difficult child 4, aka husband, takes Lamictal for simple partial seizures (which also helps his undiagnosed mood disorder TREMENDOUSLY). A few weeks after starting Lamictal, he developed a rash on both sides of his upper torso -- not a big area, maybe the size of a plum. He saw his neurologist and...
  19. P

    another medication bites the dust

    HI Just wanted to report on the latest medication trial for difficult child #2 who has Fetal Alcohol Effects (FAE), and is quite impulsive, distractable, and very inflexible when he doesn't get his way. Doesn't really fit the childhood bipolar diagnosis very well, closest thing seems to be what Smallworld talked about a while back of...
  20. gcvmom

    Got the orders for the latest medication tweak...

    for difficult child 2. So now, instead of 600mg Seroquel XR at night, and 100mg regular Seroquel at lunchtime, he's going to get 400mg XR at night and 300mg XR at lunch. Now you see why I only give the school one week's worth of medications at a time? I figured this would happen. So now I have to get another...
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