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Mom? What's a difficult child?
So, like a lot of you, or some of you, I question if some of the medications work at times??? Especially when added on with another medication at or around the same time...
We had started Prazosin during K's psychiatric hospital stay when she was trialing a bunch of other medications etc. I was kind of leary about it, it is a PTSD medication, helps with that and possibly Night Terrors. But most of the research is done with night mares and night terrors of PTSD sufferers... which is not K. So we were not sure, and nothing I could find had it linked to much BiPolar (BP) use for Night Terrors. So her NT's had decreased, she was not screaming all night... but she was still thrashing and having bed dreams. Still gorry and pretty vivid... I was thinking "Well this stupid medication isn't working"
We have decreased it from 4mg to 1 mg over the past 4 weeks... this week we went to 1mg... well who knew??? she is having horrible dreams, was up all night the past 2 nights... has woken up every morning with crazy dreams, bed is trashed...
Maybe it was actually doing it's job??? I am going to titrate it back up and see if it makes a difference... interesting.
Also now with K just on Lamictal 175mg and Abilify 5mg lovely anxiety is sky high again... depression is low again... nice!!! Poor thing.
We had started Prazosin during K's psychiatric hospital stay when she was trialing a bunch of other medications etc. I was kind of leary about it, it is a PTSD medication, helps with that and possibly Night Terrors. But most of the research is done with night mares and night terrors of PTSD sufferers... which is not K. So we were not sure, and nothing I could find had it linked to much BiPolar (BP) use for Night Terrors. So her NT's had decreased, she was not screaming all night... but she was still thrashing and having bed dreams. Still gorry and pretty vivid... I was thinking "Well this stupid medication isn't working"
We have decreased it from 4mg to 1 mg over the past 4 weeks... this week we went to 1mg... well who knew??? she is having horrible dreams, was up all night the past 2 nights... has woken up every morning with crazy dreams, bed is trashed...
Maybe it was actually doing it's job??? I am going to titrate it back up and see if it makes a difference... interesting.
Also now with K just on Lamictal 175mg and Abilify 5mg lovely anxiety is sky high again... depression is low again... nice!!! Poor thing.