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Mom? What's a difficult child?
OK so we finally got a call back from psychiatrist3... after over 2 weeks, after calling him and leaving a message that K was manic and Hallucinating and up over 24 hours during Thanksgiving... No apologies... We saw him last Thursday. Meeting was bad. He said well it seems like she has been manic or hypo-manic going on a month or so and she is cycling and doing worse... YES!!!
So he wants to hospitalize her for 2 weeks... "To see is she is really doing these things" He said she can't hide these things at the hospital, if she truly is BiPolar (BP)... He will see it... I said well what about Honeymooning? He said "NO way"
I also said well what then, so then you believe us... what then...
We still have horrible schools, we still don't have a "team" we still are going weeks with no return calls... we are still not getting the medications that we think she needs... He still thinks she is "just" ADHD...
We said NO... While I think someone watching her and really seeing her, in all of her glory is maybe a good ideas, I think that person needs to understand Mental Illness, in children. And be a part of a teaching hospital, with access to others!!!
Not someone who specializes in ADHD...
So he Kind of agreed with us in a standoffish way... and said he would suggest Topamax... gave us a script and said see you in 3 weeks.
We will stick with him until we can get our apt to AZ... I think in FEB.... I mean the head of the pediatrician psychiatric dept called us personally... she had to leave for family stuff to India and said she will calls us in Jan.
But I was just curious about the honeymooning... K does wonderful in new situations... sometimes it takes a month or so for her to show her true colors... and really let it out... he totally called BS on me when I said that.
He said if she is Manic she will not be able to hide it... I thought about it , maybe if she is in 24 hours??? But I have never been away from her for days... can a child hold it together for a time at a hospital? I have read they can...
I told him I could... He said well then your not BiPolar (BP)... I said yes I am...
I just shut up at that point.... But then I thought about it and was thinking well if I was truly manic could I hide it??? From an expert??? I guess part of me feels he is not an expert on BiPolar (BP)!!!
I guess I have covered and hid it from so many common folk...
I am just so disappointed... by it all. I just want someone who cares.
And should we try Topamax???
I don't even feel that great about Lamictal right now??? This would all be temp. until we got to Tucson... I would want a medication wash and to start over....
So he wants to hospitalize her for 2 weeks... "To see is she is really doing these things" He said she can't hide these things at the hospital, if she truly is BiPolar (BP)... He will see it... I said well what about Honeymooning? He said "NO way"
I also said well what then, so then you believe us... what then...
We still have horrible schools, we still don't have a "team" we still are going weeks with no return calls... we are still not getting the medications that we think she needs... He still thinks she is "just" ADHD...
We said NO... While I think someone watching her and really seeing her, in all of her glory is maybe a good ideas, I think that person needs to understand Mental Illness, in children. And be a part of a teaching hospital, with access to others!!!
Not someone who specializes in ADHD...
So he Kind of agreed with us in a standoffish way... and said he would suggest Topamax... gave us a script and said see you in 3 weeks.
We will stick with him until we can get our apt to AZ... I think in FEB.... I mean the head of the pediatrician psychiatric dept called us personally... she had to leave for family stuff to India and said she will calls us in Jan.
But I was just curious about the honeymooning... K does wonderful in new situations... sometimes it takes a month or so for her to show her true colors... and really let it out... he totally called BS on me when I said that.
He said if she is Manic she will not be able to hide it... I thought about it , maybe if she is in 24 hours??? But I have never been away from her for days... can a child hold it together for a time at a hospital? I have read they can...
I told him I could... He said well then your not BiPolar (BP)... I said yes I am...
I just shut up at that point.... But then I thought about it and was thinking well if I was truly manic could I hide it??? From an expert??? I guess part of me feels he is not an expert on BiPolar (BP)!!!
I guess I have covered and hid it from so many common folk...
I am just so disappointed... by it all. I just want someone who cares.
And should we try Topamax???
I don't even feel that great about Lamictal right now??? This would all be temp. until we got to Tucson... I would want a medication wash and to start over....