It's been a many weeks since I've updated my difficult child's status.
We just finished up our prek year at school. The last few weeks were tough but teachers say all kids were "bad" towards end of the year. First week in May he had a really bad ear infection which resulted in yet another course of antibiotic, cough/cold medication and this time prednisone. Yep. You guessed it. It's been down hill ever since. Finally insisted and got a referral to an ENT and at our first visit he put difficult child on Singulair and Flonase nasal spray with a recheck in 3 weeks to see if the fluid was out of his left ear.
The Singulair lasted 4 days and difficult child's behavior was so out of control that I took him off myself. ENT changed it to Claratin. One week after taking difficult child off Singulair, we had a regularly scheduled appointment with psychiatrist and therapist. difficult child did everything in his power to get out of the room, kicked at the therapist, picked up a toy and held it up as if to throw it at my head if therapist had not interveniened. As bad as it was, it was such a relief for someone else to be on the receiving end for a change. When psychiatrist came in he immediately said he needed some help in the "mood medication" department. He is uncomfortable increasing his lithium since the level can be such a fine line between good and toxic. His approach is to add Depakote 125 mg in the morning to take with his lithium carbonate 300 mg and then at night take the Abilify 15mg, lithium carbonate 300mg and Depakote 250mg.
So we started all of this and one week later went for ear recheck. Now both ears are infected with fluid. ENT took him off Claratin and put him on Augmentin and Dehistine syrup with recheck in 3 weeks. Said if we get the chest congestion cleared up he would schedule tubes and take adnoids out. Of course he threw the Augmentin up and ENT changed to Ceclor. So far it is day 3 of absolute H E L LLLLLLL here. I am about to go out of my mind. He is so very bad and awful to be around.
I have no experience with Depakote, does anyone have any words of wisdom about this medication? As far as the other stuff, I think we should just shoot for clearing congestion and do the surgery. I'm not so sure there is any antihistimine medication he will be able to take. Will update my profile in a bit, gotta go tend to difficult child for now.
Donna
We just finished up our prek year at school. The last few weeks were tough but teachers say all kids were "bad" towards end of the year. First week in May he had a really bad ear infection which resulted in yet another course of antibiotic, cough/cold medication and this time prednisone. Yep. You guessed it. It's been down hill ever since. Finally insisted and got a referral to an ENT and at our first visit he put difficult child on Singulair and Flonase nasal spray with a recheck in 3 weeks to see if the fluid was out of his left ear.
The Singulair lasted 4 days and difficult child's behavior was so out of control that I took him off myself. ENT changed it to Claratin. One week after taking difficult child off Singulair, we had a regularly scheduled appointment with psychiatrist and therapist. difficult child did everything in his power to get out of the room, kicked at the therapist, picked up a toy and held it up as if to throw it at my head if therapist had not interveniened. As bad as it was, it was such a relief for someone else to be on the receiving end for a change. When psychiatrist came in he immediately said he needed some help in the "mood medication" department. He is uncomfortable increasing his lithium since the level can be such a fine line between good and toxic. His approach is to add Depakote 125 mg in the morning to take with his lithium carbonate 300 mg and then at night take the Abilify 15mg, lithium carbonate 300mg and Depakote 250mg.
So we started all of this and one week later went for ear recheck. Now both ears are infected with fluid. ENT took him off Claratin and put him on Augmentin and Dehistine syrup with recheck in 3 weeks. Said if we get the chest congestion cleared up he would schedule tubes and take adnoids out. Of course he threw the Augmentin up and ENT changed to Ceclor. So far it is day 3 of absolute H E L LLLLLLL here. I am about to go out of my mind. He is so very bad and awful to be around.
I have no experience with Depakote, does anyone have any words of wisdom about this medication? As far as the other stuff, I think we should just shoot for clearing congestion and do the surgery. I'm not so sure there is any antihistimine medication he will be able to take. Will update my profile in a bit, gotta go tend to difficult child for now.
Donna