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<blockquote data-quote="hopeful" data-source="post: 97177" data-attributes="member: 4311"><p>A side bar on the medications... When my daughter began taking ridlin the doctor told us she would be on it for a long time and to reduce the risk of kidney damage to take her off of it on weekends and holidays, it was just for school. (you see the family didn't need her to be calm, just the school did... but thats another story) Anyhow, I noticed two things, after school she would have a big emotional crash, it was associated with the medications so we fiddled with smaller doses, twice a day to avoid this. Also, the weekend days she didn't take her medications, she experienced alot of irritability. This was back in 1996. We found out later that the ups and downs are terribly hard on their psyche and that it is better to use less medication regularly than have them go on and off. This may be contributing to some of the "new" behavior. Also, when she experienced a growth spurt we would go through another adjustment period. </p><p></p><p>Not related to the chili dog, but knowing these things helped me with anxiety and assisted me in not personalizing the behavior. Our family saying was, "If she had no legs, we wouldn't expect her to run..." this is kind of crass but I had to find a way to explain her outbursts, irrationality to her three siblings and they could understand this. The explanation didn't start out like this, it was her brother's six year old rendition of my grand explanation about mental health, judgment and expectation! lol lol</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hopeful, post: 97177, member: 4311"] A side bar on the medications... When my daughter began taking ridlin the doctor told us she would be on it for a long time and to reduce the risk of kidney damage to take her off of it on weekends and holidays, it was just for school. (you see the family didn't need her to be calm, just the school did... but thats another story) Anyhow, I noticed two things, after school she would have a big emotional crash, it was associated with the medications so we fiddled with smaller doses, twice a day to avoid this. Also, the weekend days she didn't take her medications, she experienced alot of irritability. This was back in 1996. We found out later that the ups and downs are terribly hard on their psyche and that it is better to use less medication regularly than have them go on and off. This may be contributing to some of the "new" behavior. Also, when she experienced a growth spurt we would go through another adjustment period. Not related to the chili dog, but knowing these things helped me with anxiety and assisted me in not personalizing the behavior. Our family saying was, "If she had no legs, we wouldn't expect her to run..." this is kind of crass but I had to find a way to explain her outbursts, irrationality to her three siblings and they could understand this. The explanation didn't start out like this, it was her brother's six year old rendition of my grand explanation about mental health, judgment and expectation! lol lol [/QUOTE]
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