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5 year old about to be medicated, I think
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<blockquote data-quote="pepperidge" data-source="post: 55868" data-attributes="member: 2322"><p>You have been given some great advice.</p><p></p><p>I would strongly suggest you read the book the Bipolar Child particularly the chapter about medications. It has a lot of great information.</p><p></p><p>Given your family history, I would hope that you ahve a psychiatrist who is sympathethic to the notion that your child may have bipolar. And while I think neuropsychologist testing is great--particularly if you have any issues with school and learning--given what you have described re family history and such I would be looking more to the psychiatrist angle at this point. Given family history I would definitely want a board certified child psychiatrist. neuropsychologist testing might well come later. </p><p></p><p>While my very moody child has been helped by stimulants, he realled has responded well to mood stablizers + Risperdal. Not to say at all that is what your chid should have, but I again would push your psychiatrist on the mood stabilizer question. I think what many of us have found here is we have needed to trial a number of medications before getting a combination that helps so don't give up. Make sure you get up to a therapeutic level before you give up unless there are bad side effects. </p><p></p><p>If you don't like what Focalin does, tell your psychiatrist immediately. My second son did a bit better on it than on Ritalin, but in about five days it was obvious that it was only exacerbating his whininess and tendency to fall apart over everything.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pepperidge, post: 55868, member: 2322"] You have been given some great advice. I would strongly suggest you read the book the Bipolar Child particularly the chapter about medications. It has a lot of great information. Given your family history, I would hope that you ahve a psychiatrist who is sympathethic to the notion that your child may have bipolar. And while I think neuropsychologist testing is great--particularly if you have any issues with school and learning--given what you have described re family history and such I would be looking more to the psychiatrist angle at this point. Given family history I would definitely want a board certified child psychiatrist. neuropsychologist testing might well come later. While my very moody child has been helped by stimulants, he realled has responded well to mood stablizers + Risperdal. Not to say at all that is what your chid should have, but I again would push your psychiatrist on the mood stabilizer question. I think what many of us have found here is we have needed to trial a number of medications before getting a combination that helps so don't give up. Make sure you get up to a therapeutic level before you give up unless there are bad side effects. If you don't like what Focalin does, tell your psychiatrist immediately. My second son did a bit better on it than on Ritalin, but in about five days it was obvious that it was only exacerbating his whininess and tendency to fall apart over everything. [/QUOTE]
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