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<blockquote data-quote="tammyjh" data-source="post: 113469" data-attributes="member: 3072"><p>Thanks for responding :smile:</p><p></p><p>As far as daughter's surgery, she had her two hemispheres disconnected and the right temporal lobe removed as well as large chunks of her right frontal and right parietal. The rest of whats left of the right hemisphere is abnormal on the eeg but dr.'s argue of the funtionality of it. One assumption was to try to treat the activity and see if by treating that, maybe the mood would stablize a bit. Problem was, once she was on medications., no one wanted to order another eeg...just said that we'd notice the mood change if the medications were helpful. We have a case manager who's trying to track down a good specialist. What we've tried for medications are:</p><p></p><p>Zoloft--bad reaction</p><p></p><p>Risperdal--worked ok for about a month then it was like she had never been on it. Went back to this one a couple times since with no results.</p><p></p><p>Abilify--nothing</p><p></p><p>Seroquel--nauseous</p><p></p><p>Adderal--kind of like the risperdal. She overfocused on certain things for a couple weeks and then nothing.</p><p></p><p>Strattera--nothing</p><p></p><p>Lamictal--nothing</p><p></p><p>Depakote--sick to her stomach</p><p></p><p>Keppra--nothing</p><p></p><p>Most of these, we played with dosages and revisited but didn't really see any results. She's on the Prozac now but I'm not a fan of SSRI's for her. She really tripped offline with the Zoloft so its made me very wary of that particular class. I also know that for her, its maybe a little trickier where she's missing part of her brain. I've been leaning more toward the tegretol because its an anticonvulsant but husband seems to favor the Lithium because her moods are cyclical in nature and some of ther therapist have mentioned that while she probably doesn't have Bipolar, because of her brain injury, she could have symptoms that are similar.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tammyjh, post: 113469, member: 3072"] Thanks for responding [img]:smile:[/img] As far as daughter's surgery, she had her two hemispheres disconnected and the right temporal lobe removed as well as large chunks of her right frontal and right parietal. The rest of whats left of the right hemisphere is abnormal on the eeg but dr.'s argue of the funtionality of it. One assumption was to try to treat the activity and see if by treating that, maybe the mood would stablize a bit. Problem was, once she was on medications., no one wanted to order another eeg...just said that we'd notice the mood change if the medications were helpful. We have a case manager who's trying to track down a good specialist. What we've tried for medications are: Zoloft--bad reaction Risperdal--worked ok for about a month then it was like she had never been on it. Went back to this one a couple times since with no results. Abilify--nothing Seroquel--nauseous Adderal--kind of like the risperdal. She overfocused on certain things for a couple weeks and then nothing. Strattera--nothing Lamictal--nothing Depakote--sick to her stomach Keppra--nothing Most of these, we played with dosages and revisited but didn't really see any results. She's on the Prozac now but I'm not a fan of SSRI's for her. She really tripped offline with the Zoloft so its made me very wary of that particular class. I also know that for her, its maybe a little trickier where she's missing part of her brain. I've been leaning more toward the tegretol because its an anticonvulsant but husband seems to favor the Lithium because her moods are cyclical in nature and some of ther therapist have mentioned that while she probably doesn't have Bipolar, because of her brain injury, she could have symptoms that are similar. [/QUOTE]
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