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<blockquote data-quote="neednewtechnique" data-source="post: 25372" data-attributes="member: 3527"><p>Thank you all, very much, for your responses. I do want to point out, however, that although I have not listed my diagnosis on my signature, I have a "history" if you would like to call it that, with psychiatric problems and other things. I went through the ringer as a teen myself, and I know what to expect and NOT to expect from psychiatric medication. I know that they are not "MIRACLE CURES" and I don't expect that they will get the perfect balance and make all the problems go away. I know there is more to it than that, but at the same time, I also know that A huge part of treatment when it comes to medication is CAREFULLY weighing the pros and cons of taking vs. not taking a particular drug and whether or not the benefits are outweighing the side-effects. My biggest concern is that her therapist agrees with me that the side-effects of the medications she is on for her ADHD are probably making her problems with the ODD worse,and that she would prefer to see the PDR focusing more on the behavioral aspect of things right now than her ADHD. With that being said, I have heard so many people in here talk about getting an INCORRECT diagnosis on ADHD, and I am beginning to wonder if this is the case with her. And you must understand, we have had a whole string of problems with our current PDR that have lead up to our decision to seek a second opinion, it isn't like we feel that she is not doing her job, or that she isn't medicating her like we feel she should, it is just that she seems more interested in the "labels" that she has given our difficult child, than the actual symptoms she is seeing. </p><p></p><p>She has sit across her desk from our difficult child SO very MANY times in the last few years, even before we were around, and has never once talked to her in private, without another adult in the room. Any PDR I ever seen growing up ALWAYS had to talk to me alone and then consulted separately with my parents afterwards. Also, even knowing the things that she knows about our difficult child's past with living with her BIO mother, she still has a problem with a teenaged girl living with her father instead of her mother, and she expressed that very biased in FRONT of our difficult child!!! Not to mention she has heard our daughter tell her that she is worried about herself because when she gets angry or upset, she feels as though she cannot control what she does. I would think this would raise a concern from a PDR, but it doesn't, she just says "hmmm" and goes right on past it like it was never brought up. </p><p></p><p>Anyways, I just thought I would throw this extra little tidbit in here, and to make sure that you all know I don't expect miracles from the medication, but what I do expect is that whoever she sees would be willing to re'evaluate to ensure that the medications she IS taking are NOT working AGAINST us!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="neednewtechnique, post: 25372, member: 3527"] Thank you all, very much, for your responses. I do want to point out, however, that although I have not listed my diagnosis on my signature, I have a "history" if you would like to call it that, with psychiatric problems and other things. I went through the ringer as a teen myself, and I know what to expect and NOT to expect from psychiatric medication. I know that they are not "MIRACLE CURES" and I don't expect that they will get the perfect balance and make all the problems go away. I know there is more to it than that, but at the same time, I also know that A huge part of treatment when it comes to medication is CAREFULLY weighing the pros and cons of taking vs. not taking a particular drug and whether or not the benefits are outweighing the side-effects. My biggest concern is that her therapist agrees with me that the side-effects of the medications she is on for her ADHD are probably making her problems with the ODD worse,and that she would prefer to see the PDR focusing more on the behavioral aspect of things right now than her ADHD. With that being said, I have heard so many people in here talk about getting an INCORRECT diagnosis on ADHD, and I am beginning to wonder if this is the case with her. And you must understand, we have had a whole string of problems with our current PDR that have lead up to our decision to seek a second opinion, it isn't like we feel that she is not doing her job, or that she isn't medicating her like we feel she should, it is just that she seems more interested in the "labels" that she has given our difficult child, than the actual symptoms she is seeing. She has sit across her desk from our difficult child SO very MANY times in the last few years, even before we were around, and has never once talked to her in private, without another adult in the room. Any PDR I ever seen growing up ALWAYS had to talk to me alone and then consulted separately with my parents afterwards. Also, even knowing the things that she knows about our difficult child's past with living with her BIO mother, she still has a problem with a teenaged girl living with her father instead of her mother, and she expressed that very biased in FRONT of our difficult child!!! Not to mention she has heard our daughter tell her that she is worried about herself because when she gets angry or upset, she feels as though she cannot control what she does. I would think this would raise a concern from a PDR, but it doesn't, she just says "hmmm" and goes right on past it like it was never brought up. Anyways, I just thought I would throw this extra little tidbit in here, and to make sure that you all know I don't expect miracles from the medication, but what I do expect is that whoever she sees would be willing to re'evaluate to ensure that the medications she IS taking are NOT working AGAINST us! [/QUOTE]
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