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<blockquote data-quote="gcvmom" data-source="post: 52872" data-attributes="member: 3444"><p>difficult child 2 had a really rough year in 4th grade -- thank goodness it's finished. He is lucky to be blessed with a lot of smarts -- his grades were great but his behavior marks were AWFUL. His ADHD medications and mood medications have not worked, so we have stopped everything and will start from scratch next week.</p><p></p><p>In November he started having trouble with stimulants (started on Adderall five years ago and went from Concerta to Focalin XR to Daytrana) not working -- we seemed to continuously titrate up until it got too scary and the medication was acting like water, then we switched to a different stimulant. </p><p></p><p>He was also on Risperdal to help with his angry outbursts and "stuck" or "obsessive" thoughts, and for a while it seemed to help a bit, but then the rages and obsessions started getting worse . So we dropped the Risperdal and added Abilify, gradually working up to 15mg. </p><p></p><p>Started showing problems with jitteriness, nervousness during the day, and ADHD symptoms were becoming worse, along with the mood stuff (especially if he thought you would prevent him from doing something he was "stuck" on -- then he'd have a nuclear meltdown for about 20-30 minutes, no matter where you were). In May we dropped Abilify and added Tenex, but as that was titrated up he became more and more talkative and fidgety. </p><p></p><p>On Wednesday this week it peaked -- he really seemed to have the typical "flight of ideas" -- talking a bluestreak with barely a 30 second pause between disjointed verbal eruptions, and his body was constantly moving. He looked like someone on crack -- no joke. We were at the therapist's office and before going in, he told me his head felt like a beehive with lots of bees buzzing around that had eaten too much sugar! Therapist was alarmed enough to call psychiatrist to report it.</p><p></p><p>psychiatrist wanted to add Abilify back to the Daytrana/Tenex mix, as well as increase the Tenex. I felt so overwhelmed and so fed up with the list of medications we've tried over the past five years that I asked to take a break and start all over, which psychiatrist agreed was fine to do.</p><p></p><p>No one is saying BiPolar (BP) diagnosis yet -- just that it could be a possibility down the road.</p><p></p><p>I'm just so frustrated because I feel like we've spent five years spinning our wheels with trials of so many things without having found the right combo that works! Meanwhile, difficult child 2 has NO friends, and has pissed off his siblings so much even they don't want anything to do with him...and even I'm near the end of my patience and it's only day three off medications (!) Right now he's intrusive, distracted, paces or just wanders around waving his arms in the air or running them along the walls, inattentive, goofy, hyperactive, reckless, careless. He acts like he's 4 instead of 10. He is exhausted by the end of the day and falls asleep FAST (so not like he's needing LESS sleep like I read about for typical BiPolar (BP)), and in the morning he has a hard time waking.</p><p></p><p>Anyone have any similar experiences? It seems like even when they work, the stimulants make him too anxious -- he tried Zoloft in first grade with Concerta and it made him manic, so psychiatrist doesn't think that class of drug would be helpful at all. And now the stims don't last very long and when he comes off them he's horrible to be around.</p><p></p><p>psychiatrist is so dang swamped with patients we can't get enough face time to discuss this at length, so I'm left relaying messages through voicemail and his assistant. Fortunately, we've found a fairly decent therapist who is trying to help sort this out, but he's no MD.</p><p></p><p>I want to put all his rx bottles under my pillow so the psycho-pharma-pfairy will come and leave one magic pill to make it all better :wink:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gcvmom, post: 52872, member: 3444"] difficult child 2 had a really rough year in 4th grade -- thank goodness it's finished. He is lucky to be blessed with a lot of smarts -- his grades were great but his behavior marks were AWFUL. His ADHD medications and mood medications have not worked, so we have stopped everything and will start from scratch next week. In November he started having trouble with stimulants (started on Adderall five years ago and went from Concerta to Focalin XR to Daytrana) not working -- we seemed to continuously titrate up until it got too scary and the medication was acting like water, then we switched to a different stimulant. He was also on Risperdal to help with his angry outbursts and "stuck" or "obsessive" thoughts, and for a while it seemed to help a bit, but then the rages and obsessions started getting worse . So we dropped the Risperdal and added Abilify, gradually working up to 15mg. Started showing problems with jitteriness, nervousness during the day, and ADHD symptoms were becoming worse, along with the mood stuff (especially if he thought you would prevent him from doing something he was "stuck" on -- then he'd have a nuclear meltdown for about 20-30 minutes, no matter where you were). In May we dropped Abilify and added Tenex, but as that was titrated up he became more and more talkative and fidgety. On Wednesday this week it peaked -- he really seemed to have the typical "flight of ideas" -- talking a bluestreak with barely a 30 second pause between disjointed verbal eruptions, and his body was constantly moving. He looked like someone on crack -- no joke. We were at the therapist's office and before going in, he told me his head felt like a beehive with lots of bees buzzing around that had eaten too much sugar! Therapist was alarmed enough to call psychiatrist to report it. psychiatrist wanted to add Abilify back to the Daytrana/Tenex mix, as well as increase the Tenex. I felt so overwhelmed and so fed up with the list of medications we've tried over the past five years that I asked to take a break and start all over, which psychiatrist agreed was fine to do. No one is saying BiPolar (BP) diagnosis yet -- just that it could be a possibility down the road. I'm just so frustrated because I feel like we've spent five years spinning our wheels with trials of so many things without having found the right combo that works! Meanwhile, difficult child 2 has NO friends, and has pissed off his siblings so much even they don't want anything to do with him...and even I'm near the end of my patience and it's only day three off medications (!) Right now he's intrusive, distracted, paces or just wanders around waving his arms in the air or running them along the walls, inattentive, goofy, hyperactive, reckless, careless. He acts like he's 4 instead of 10. He is exhausted by the end of the day and falls asleep FAST (so not like he's needing LESS sleep like I read about for typical BiPolar (BP)), and in the morning he has a hard time waking. Anyone have any similar experiences? It seems like even when they work, the stimulants make him too anxious -- he tried Zoloft in first grade with Concerta and it made him manic, so psychiatrist doesn't think that class of drug would be helpful at all. And now the stims don't last very long and when he comes off them he's horrible to be around. psychiatrist is so dang swamped with patients we can't get enough face time to discuss this at length, so I'm left relaying messages through voicemail and his assistant. Fortunately, we've found a fairly decent therapist who is trying to help sort this out, but he's no MD. I want to put all his rx bottles under my pillow so the psycho-pharma-pfairy will come and leave one magic pill to make it all better [img]:wink:[/img] [/QUOTE]
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