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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 77377" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>The cave thing is pretty typical, though the extreme to which she carries it may indicate otherwise. Follow your instincts. Does she have allergies? Atarax is an older allergy medication. We used it with Jess for anxiety, and for allergies. It might take some private consulting with her doctor, but a scrip for this might help. And it would get you around the no medication hurdle.</p><p></p><p>Is it possible to suggest, gently, that by continuing to face up to a problem she just might be acquiring some difficult child behaviors? Not sur ethis is appropriate, but it might be possible.</p><p></p><p>Around here, until age 18 medications are not something any of htem have the choice to refuse. They have a say. Their questions, concerns and input are listened to very closely and weighed appropriately for the child, the situation, and the reason to consider the medication. But medication refusal isn't happening in this household. </p><p></p><p>I will pill them like I pill hte cat. It only takes one session of me with an angry cat and the needle-nose pliers to stick the pill back as far as possible into the cat's mouth to make the point. But this has been our line in the sand for as long as I have had kids. (I watched a cousin go into convulsions from a fever because his parents couldn't talk him into taking his medications for the fever. Cousin of mine was 2, I was 20. It became a personal line in the sand. husband agrees with me.)</p><p></p><p>I hope she can get some help. Will turning off her internet until she agrees to talk openly with the psychiatrist or whomever about anxiety medications? Is she afraid of addiction? IF she won't talk, you can't help her. </p><p></p><p>Would she consider taking the medications on a trial basis, then if they work she could take a break from therapy if she stayed on them as prescribed?</p><p></p><p>Not all anxiety medications are addictive, or like valium, or even SSRI's like prozac and paxil. As I mentioned, some of the older antihistamines will act like this also. Would benadryl help? I have no clue whether it would have this "side effect" but your pharmacist might (esp if she has a doctorate in pharmacology).</p><p></p><p>Hugs to both of you!</p><p></p><p>Susie</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 77377, member: 1233"] The cave thing is pretty typical, though the extreme to which she carries it may indicate otherwise. Follow your instincts. Does she have allergies? Atarax is an older allergy medication. We used it with Jess for anxiety, and for allergies. It might take some private consulting with her doctor, but a scrip for this might help. And it would get you around the no medication hurdle. Is it possible to suggest, gently, that by continuing to face up to a problem she just might be acquiring some difficult child behaviors? Not sur ethis is appropriate, but it might be possible. Around here, until age 18 medications are not something any of htem have the choice to refuse. They have a say. Their questions, concerns and input are listened to very closely and weighed appropriately for the child, the situation, and the reason to consider the medication. But medication refusal isn't happening in this household. I will pill them like I pill hte cat. It only takes one session of me with an angry cat and the needle-nose pliers to stick the pill back as far as possible into the cat's mouth to make the point. But this has been our line in the sand for as long as I have had kids. (I watched a cousin go into convulsions from a fever because his parents couldn't talk him into taking his medications for the fever. Cousin of mine was 2, I was 20. It became a personal line in the sand. husband agrees with me.) I hope she can get some help. Will turning off her internet until she agrees to talk openly with the psychiatrist or whomever about anxiety medications? Is she afraid of addiction? IF she won't talk, you can't help her. Would she consider taking the medications on a trial basis, then if they work she could take a break from therapy if she stayed on them as prescribed? Not all anxiety medications are addictive, or like valium, or even SSRI's like prozac and paxil. As I mentioned, some of the older antihistamines will act like this also. Would benadryl help? I have no clue whether it would have this "side effect" but your pharmacist might (esp if she has a doctorate in pharmacology). Hugs to both of you! Susie [/QUOTE]
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