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Do you feel doctors prescribe medications too fast?
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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 187929" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>I agree. I know our first psychiatrist gave me a large print version of the doctor's prescribing info. She also would suggest a medication and then make another appointment to prescribe it so that we could really THINK about it. She got the medications right, we actually came back to the medications she rx'ed after trying others.</p><p> </p><p>The current doctor is useless. He wanted to give Wiz a bipolar diagnosis but refused to do a trial of mood stabilizers. when I gave him a copy of the recommended treatment from the academy of child and adolescent psychiatrists, he was stunned, offended and said wiz could stay on his current medications. He said he would not follow that protocol period. No reason why other than "I don't want to". LOTS of psychiatrists have said that. </p><p> </p><p>So many times they want to "try" something and then tell you the side effects aren't as bad as you say they are. Wiz HAS learned to push the doctor if he is having problems. he also knows that I will get resources to back me up and then will go head to head with anyone over this if he needs me to.</p><p> </p><p>I was totally floored when they wanted to try mood stabilizers on Jess because she was "blanking out" during class. This was her pediatrician. We INSISTED on a referral to our fave neuro instead. the pediatrician did NOT want to do this, but knew I would make a big stink about it. (I am NOT her favorite mom because I am too educated on this stuff!) Jess needed an anti-seizure medication and is doing well on one, finally. It took over a YEAR to get her to the right dose. thank heavens the psychiatrist starts low and goes very very slow with any medication.</p><p> </p><p>I think an EEG (sleep deprived), and many other tests, including neuropsychologist type testing should be done on ANY child they want to rx medications for. MOST of the difficult children here went through the ADHD label at first. And that seems criminal to me - the # of kids who had that diagnosis at first and then were found to have something else.</p><p> </p><p>There MUST be a better way to handle this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 187929, member: 1233"] I agree. I know our first psychiatrist gave me a large print version of the doctor's prescribing info. She also would suggest a medication and then make another appointment to prescribe it so that we could really THINK about it. She got the medications right, we actually came back to the medications she rx'ed after trying others. The current doctor is useless. He wanted to give Wiz a bipolar diagnosis but refused to do a trial of mood stabilizers. when I gave him a copy of the recommended treatment from the academy of child and adolescent psychiatrists, he was stunned, offended and said wiz could stay on his current medications. He said he would not follow that protocol period. No reason why other than "I don't want to". LOTS of psychiatrists have said that. So many times they want to "try" something and then tell you the side effects aren't as bad as you say they are. Wiz HAS learned to push the doctor if he is having problems. he also knows that I will get resources to back me up and then will go head to head with anyone over this if he needs me to. I was totally floored when they wanted to try mood stabilizers on Jess because she was "blanking out" during class. This was her pediatrician. We INSISTED on a referral to our fave neuro instead. the pediatrician did NOT want to do this, but knew I would make a big stink about it. (I am NOT her favorite mom because I am too educated on this stuff!) Jess needed an anti-seizure medication and is doing well on one, finally. It took over a YEAR to get her to the right dose. thank heavens the psychiatrist starts low and goes very very slow with any medication. I think an EEG (sleep deprived), and many other tests, including neuropsychologist type testing should be done on ANY child they want to rx medications for. MOST of the difficult children here went through the ADHD label at first. And that seems criminal to me - the # of kids who had that diagnosis at first and then were found to have something else. There MUST be a better way to handle this. [/QUOTE]
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