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<blockquote data-quote="pepperidge" data-source="post: 127882" data-attributes="member: 2322"><p>Totoro,</p><p></p><p>I am so sorry your psychiatrist is such a jerk. What a disappointment, after all you have invested. </p><p></p><p>Don't know what advice to give you. Sometimes medication washes are a good thing, if a child has been on a number of drugs that haven't helped. Helps you rediscover the wonder that is your child (lol). Do you have the sense that Lamictal is doing anything? I have to say, I have usually know within a week or two whether a drug was helping or hurting. And my kids have each trialed about 15 by now I think...</p><p></p><p>On the stims, my own experience is that it has greatly helped my oldest (who has bipolar or something close to it, and benefits greatly from Lamictal). He is a different person when he takes Adderall (good). But alone, the rebound was really awful--he got very aggressive and nasty. Without it, he is excessively silly, immature, defiant. The mood stablizers have done a great job on his depression and helped his anxiety, but the stims also work miracles. Not to say they will be good for K, but they do have the advantage that you know within a day or two whether they are worth keeping. My youngest (who doesn't probably have bipolar) but would appear to have classic impulsive, inattentive ADD, reacts very badly to them. Within an hour, they made him whiny, anxious, obssessive, you name it. It was bad. </p><p>If you are going to trial them I hope the doctor gave you the lowest dose--and not long acting!!</p><p></p><p>I hope you can manage to find a place that believes in childhood bipolar--or at least is willing to medicate along those lines. even when we did find a good psychiatrist, who had a well thought protocol of the order in which he wanted to try various medications, it still took us about 4-5 to find the right ones. </p><p></p><p>I am so sorry. You must be so bummed out. It shouldn't have to be this hard.</p><p></p><p>Hugs</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pepperidge, post: 127882, member: 2322"] Totoro, I am so sorry your psychiatrist is such a jerk. What a disappointment, after all you have invested. Don't know what advice to give you. Sometimes medication washes are a good thing, if a child has been on a number of drugs that haven't helped. Helps you rediscover the wonder that is your child (lol). Do you have the sense that Lamictal is doing anything? I have to say, I have usually know within a week or two whether a drug was helping or hurting. And my kids have each trialed about 15 by now I think... On the stims, my own experience is that it has greatly helped my oldest (who has bipolar or something close to it, and benefits greatly from Lamictal). He is a different person when he takes Adderall (good). But alone, the rebound was really awful--he got very aggressive and nasty. Without it, he is excessively silly, immature, defiant. The mood stablizers have done a great job on his depression and helped his anxiety, but the stims also work miracles. Not to say they will be good for K, but they do have the advantage that you know within a day or two whether they are worth keeping. My youngest (who doesn't probably have bipolar) but would appear to have classic impulsive, inattentive ADD, reacts very badly to them. Within an hour, they made him whiny, anxious, obssessive, you name it. It was bad. If you are going to trial them I hope the doctor gave you the lowest dose--and not long acting!! I hope you can manage to find a place that believes in childhood bipolar--or at least is willing to medicate along those lines. even when we did find a good psychiatrist, who had a well thought protocol of the order in which he wanted to try various medications, it still took us about 4-5 to find the right ones. I am so sorry. You must be so bummed out. It shouldn't have to be this hard. Hugs [/QUOTE]
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