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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 296682" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>I hope you are meaning some doctor other than her pediatrician to dispense medications. Pediatricians are way over their heads with Aspergers. Our pediatrician always wants an update on my aspie, but unless he is between docs will not write prescriptions. Those prescriptions are given if we suddenly have a doctor stop taking insurance, or move or whatever. They are exactly the same as whatever he is on, no changes.</p><p></p><p>Check out the urinary tract infection. It may even be painful. Often with my Aspie something would hurt but he could not tell us exactly what hurt. Often he had an overall grumpiness and would rub or tug on whatever hurt but could not look at me and say "Mom my elbow hurts". Part of this is that the pain is so obvious to him that surely we know about it. We are the adults, the ones in charge and of course he doesn't know more than we do. He was 14 before we finally got him to realize he had a migraine at the onset of symptoms. He would suffer and suffer with them until we realized that he had one. He has had them since age 2 but after the toddler years simply could NOT tell us what was wrong. It made it hard to treat with medicines.</p><p></p><p>Kids do NOT report urinary tract infections/problems the way adults do. There may be some issue other than infection that is causing pain on urination. She may be holding it in until it gets past her. IF at all possible, work with her to watch the signs she may have to potty and have her go sit on the potty right away. She may have bad pottying habits, which mean you will have to "retrain" her. At home she should take her underwear off, sit down on the potty with a small footstool and have her legs spread wide. Just like in driver's ed wehre your hands go at 10 and 2, her legs should be at 10 and 2. Run some water in the sink, have her put her hand in warm water, even work with her on consciously relaxing her back and abdominal muscles. </p><p></p><p>All of these will help her relearn effective bathroom practices. She also must be coached on how to wipe - front to back and then use new paper if she needs to wipe again.</p><p></p><p>If she is like one of my little cousins and cannot stand the idea of holding the paper as she wipes with it, get some cheap disposable gloves in the drugstore area of Walmart. She can use the gloves to hold the paper and then throw them in the garbage can. My cousin couldn't stand having "germy" hands to pull up her pants with. </p><p></p><p>There is a lot of hope for Asperger's. But there are a lot of challenges to overcome also.</p><p></p><p>What medications are you expecting her to be treated with? What problems are the medications supposed to address?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 296682, member: 1233"] I hope you are meaning some doctor other than her pediatrician to dispense medications. Pediatricians are way over their heads with Aspergers. Our pediatrician always wants an update on my aspie, but unless he is between docs will not write prescriptions. Those prescriptions are given if we suddenly have a doctor stop taking insurance, or move or whatever. They are exactly the same as whatever he is on, no changes. Check out the urinary tract infection. It may even be painful. Often with my Aspie something would hurt but he could not tell us exactly what hurt. Often he had an overall grumpiness and would rub or tug on whatever hurt but could not look at me and say "Mom my elbow hurts". Part of this is that the pain is so obvious to him that surely we know about it. We are the adults, the ones in charge and of course he doesn't know more than we do. He was 14 before we finally got him to realize he had a migraine at the onset of symptoms. He would suffer and suffer with them until we realized that he had one. He has had them since age 2 but after the toddler years simply could NOT tell us what was wrong. It made it hard to treat with medicines. Kids do NOT report urinary tract infections/problems the way adults do. There may be some issue other than infection that is causing pain on urination. She may be holding it in until it gets past her. IF at all possible, work with her to watch the signs she may have to potty and have her go sit on the potty right away. She may have bad pottying habits, which mean you will have to "retrain" her. At home she should take her underwear off, sit down on the potty with a small footstool and have her legs spread wide. Just like in driver's ed wehre your hands go at 10 and 2, her legs should be at 10 and 2. Run some water in the sink, have her put her hand in warm water, even work with her on consciously relaxing her back and abdominal muscles. All of these will help her relearn effective bathroom practices. She also must be coached on how to wipe - front to back and then use new paper if she needs to wipe again. If she is like one of my little cousins and cannot stand the idea of holding the paper as she wipes with it, get some cheap disposable gloves in the drugstore area of Walmart. She can use the gloves to hold the paper and then throw them in the garbage can. My cousin couldn't stand having "germy" hands to pull up her pants with. There is a lot of hope for Asperger's. But there are a lot of challenges to overcome also. What medications are you expecting her to be treated with? What problems are the medications supposed to address? [/QUOTE]
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