jannie
trying to survive....
difficult child 1 started complaining at the end of the school year that he was having more trouble than ever with reading....he wasn't really complaining, but I saw that he was having trouble....he was losing his place (tracking issues), inserting and deleting little words and adding prefixes and suffixes that were not there...needless to say this got me worried.
We wound up seeing an optomestrist and then had a developmental optometrist who gave him a developmental comprehensive exam....he basically stopped in the middle of the exam because he was very concerned about this somewhat recent onset of visual problems...difficult child was testing with significant issues with blurred vision, double vision, tracking and focusing....and this is not about vision...as he is still testing near 20/20...so he stops and says I need to find out more about your sons medications and perhaps the combination of them or one of them as a SIDE EFFECT is causing this double vision, blurred vision....He has been on two of the medications for three years...and lexapro was added around Feb. or so.....the p-doctor said it was possible, but unlikely.....whatever the cause these vision issues are greatly impacted him and will definately impact him in school Maybe this is the reason behind his reading issues....
difficult child 1 says that he's always had these issues but he didn't know any different...I think they are new....so now we will try to reduce the medication and see if we see improvement visually...however a reduction in medication may cause a decrease behaviorally...so the roller coaster begins again....The lexpapro did seem to really help so I 'm not happy to make the change.
However....I've been thinking about trialing lamictil instead of trileptal....this may be the right time....I think lamictil has some depression benefits as well as anxiety benefits.....
We wound up seeing an optomestrist and then had a developmental optometrist who gave him a developmental comprehensive exam....he basically stopped in the middle of the exam because he was very concerned about this somewhat recent onset of visual problems...difficult child was testing with significant issues with blurred vision, double vision, tracking and focusing....and this is not about vision...as he is still testing near 20/20...so he stops and says I need to find out more about your sons medications and perhaps the combination of them or one of them as a SIDE EFFECT is causing this double vision, blurred vision....He has been on two of the medications for three years...and lexapro was added around Feb. or so.....the p-doctor said it was possible, but unlikely.....whatever the cause these vision issues are greatly impacted him and will definately impact him in school Maybe this is the reason behind his reading issues....
difficult child 1 says that he's always had these issues but he didn't know any different...I think they are new....so now we will try to reduce the medication and see if we see improvement visually...however a reduction in medication may cause a decrease behaviorally...so the roller coaster begins again....The lexpapro did seem to really help so I 'm not happy to make the change.
However....I've been thinking about trialing lamictil instead of trileptal....this may be the right time....I think lamictil has some depression benefits as well as anxiety benefits.....
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