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<blockquote data-quote="ma2sevn" data-source="post: 86697" data-attributes="member: 4056"><p>Thank you both for responding. She was diagnosis Learning Disability (LD), not otherwise specified by a pediatrician psychiatrist at a university teaching hospital. SHe said she and her collegues had a hard time distinguishing where her disability lay, she deffinatly thought difficult child had major learning problems. thus the not otherwise specified. I have the report filed away it was about 3 yrs ago. ANd we saw that doctor because difficult child was having so much stomach trouble and the pediatrician gastro wanted to add the psychiatric side to the equation. SHe has been treated for dyspepsi (stomach) since then also. We see our military pediatrician and she is great about sending us out for everything except obvious medical stuff she handles. So we have tried alot of differnt avenues. difficult child has a pyschiatrist whom is pretty good and listens to she and I. He diagnosis the anxiety disorder due to her stomach stuff, combined with skin peeling and mainly because she verbalized that she worried so much at school and was actually scared quite often. By the way , he and the pediatrician have also allowed us to try several ADD medications (Adderal, Ritalin and Dexadrine? and Strattera) Her psychiatric says there are only two actual classifications for ADD ADHD drugs and all the different ones really are in one of these two groups...a few differences but mostly the same thing. He feels like if we have tried these and it didtn improve,(she got whiney and moody and mean on them) we dont need a n ADD medication, we need to treat from a different angel so we started the Lamictal. The Prozac came about 8 mo ago and I do think it helps. She takes 20 mg in am. Then he also added Lamictal 50 mg and recently upped Lamicatal to 75 daily . I see no effect from the Lamicatal. She was in individual therapy for about a year and a half and therapist said she felt like difficult child was at a good place and we dicontinued(difficult child was doing great then..school was ending and to be honest I was glad for the chance to try another therapist. But summer was prety good and I didnt start her back until just last week. SO we are with a another therapist that I really like (and actually see myself) who has difficult child's herself. One great thing is that difficult child is pretty honest she tells therapist what she really is struggling with and is active with the therapy. As far as achool goes its a mixed bag. SHe has an IEP, and I had to fight for that. The school believed she is just lazy and too focused on her hair and social life. And I have to be honest, they have been accomadating and are trying. But now I am seeing her not trying, and I have had a few talks with school and they are begining to say well if she wont even try....I had said I would just pull back and let her fail...in an attempt to motivate her that this is her work, and her responsibility, but school said not to do that. But I am there anyway, not cause I am tired of helping her but because now she has put the breaks on and simply wont do it. SHe does what she can in the classroom but thats the end of it. I am a believer in school work belongs at school, personally. And you are right, she isnt gaining anything being up till late at night doing it. The truth is 'I' feel pressured to make sure she gets it done at home and I WAS driving her to get it done to avoid her having repercussions. SHe had a horrible yr last year....ISS often for missing assisgnments ( yes I reacted quite neg to that). I hope I am not making it hard for you to understand and pick through all this info.</p><p>I just got off phone with school. They are going to see what they can do on their end to help her get it done at school but also talk to her about making choices...either get it finished at school or get it finished at home. She has an afterschool help program but difficult child says she isnt going to do homework there cause she was in school all day doing work and then has to again when she comes home so she is not going to do it in afterschool program too. I can go with that. But there are tutors there. She also usually has v-ball practice after school(at least that is a pos. self esteem builder). Sorry so long and confusing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ma2sevn, post: 86697, member: 4056"] Thank you both for responding. She was diagnosis Learning Disability (LD), not otherwise specified by a pediatrician psychiatrist at a university teaching hospital. SHe said she and her collegues had a hard time distinguishing where her disability lay, she deffinatly thought difficult child had major learning problems. thus the not otherwise specified. I have the report filed away it was about 3 yrs ago. ANd we saw that doctor because difficult child was having so much stomach trouble and the pediatrician gastro wanted to add the psychiatric side to the equation. SHe has been treated for dyspepsi (stomach) since then also. We see our military pediatrician and she is great about sending us out for everything except obvious medical stuff she handles. So we have tried alot of differnt avenues. difficult child has a pyschiatrist whom is pretty good and listens to she and I. He diagnosis the anxiety disorder due to her stomach stuff, combined with skin peeling and mainly because she verbalized that she worried so much at school and was actually scared quite often. By the way , he and the pediatrician have also allowed us to try several ADD medications (Adderal, Ritalin and Dexadrine? and Strattera) Her psychiatric says there are only two actual classifications for ADD ADHD drugs and all the different ones really are in one of these two groups...a few differences but mostly the same thing. He feels like if we have tried these and it didtn improve,(she got whiney and moody and mean on them) we dont need a n ADD medication, we need to treat from a different angel so we started the Lamictal. The Prozac came about 8 mo ago and I do think it helps. She takes 20 mg in am. Then he also added Lamictal 50 mg and recently upped Lamicatal to 75 daily . I see no effect from the Lamicatal. She was in individual therapy for about a year and a half and therapist said she felt like difficult child was at a good place and we dicontinued(difficult child was doing great then..school was ending and to be honest I was glad for the chance to try another therapist. But summer was prety good and I didnt start her back until just last week. SO we are with a another therapist that I really like (and actually see myself) who has difficult child's herself. One great thing is that difficult child is pretty honest she tells therapist what she really is struggling with and is active with the therapy. As far as achool goes its a mixed bag. SHe has an IEP, and I had to fight for that. The school believed she is just lazy and too focused on her hair and social life. And I have to be honest, they have been accomadating and are trying. But now I am seeing her not trying, and I have had a few talks with school and they are begining to say well if she wont even try....I had said I would just pull back and let her fail...in an attempt to motivate her that this is her work, and her responsibility, but school said not to do that. But I am there anyway, not cause I am tired of helping her but because now she has put the breaks on and simply wont do it. SHe does what she can in the classroom but thats the end of it. I am a believer in school work belongs at school, personally. And you are right, she isnt gaining anything being up till late at night doing it. The truth is 'I' feel pressured to make sure she gets it done at home and I WAS driving her to get it done to avoid her having repercussions. SHe had a horrible yr last year....ISS often for missing assisgnments ( yes I reacted quite neg to that). I hope I am not making it hard for you to understand and pick through all this info. I just got off phone with school. They are going to see what they can do on their end to help her get it done at school but also talk to her about making choices...either get it finished at school or get it finished at home. She has an afterschool help program but difficult child says she isnt going to do homework there cause she was in school all day doing work and then has to again when she comes home so she is not going to do it in afterschool program too. I can go with that. But there are tutors there. She also usually has v-ball practice after school(at least that is a pos. self esteem builder). Sorry so long and confusing. [/QUOTE]
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