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Medication for difficult child and case of motherly pride
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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 564793" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>difficult child has now been four weeks on BuSpar and the side effects he did have (some nausea and headache) have gone away. He isn't noticing that much difference himself (but having so tough time with sport kind of explains all that) except maybe for sleep. However his sleep diary shows that sleep is drastically better (he is able to fall asleep just fine mostly, has used fewer Ambien-tablets than before and has had much fewer nightmares or waking ups middle of the night.) Also his heart rate (resting and changes during and after exercises) is much more to his trainers' liking. They also feel that considering the situation difficult child has been less irritable and difficult than could be expected and think that could also be because of the medication and lowered background anxiety. He will have a phone appointment with his psychiatrist later this week about continuing/discontinuing BuSpar, but at least his team doctor is pushing him to continue. </p><p></p><p>Atarax difficult child does like and has used it once or twice a week and feels it helps to cut the anxiety cycle. But it does carry over a bit for next day so he is not willing to use it more often. He has not yet had another full blown panic attack he wouldn't had been able to handle with breathing exercises and other non-drug methods so he doesn't know if Xanax will work for him or not. </p><p></p><p>His stress over sport complicates things badly just now and I hope he gets to more stable phase with that so it would be easier to see what is just situational and what is real mental health problem. Could be that we will need to wait till thee end of the season before his life gets low-stress enough to really tell.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 564793, member: 14557"] difficult child has now been four weeks on BuSpar and the side effects he did have (some nausea and headache) have gone away. He isn't noticing that much difference himself (but having so tough time with sport kind of explains all that) except maybe for sleep. However his sleep diary shows that sleep is drastically better (he is able to fall asleep just fine mostly, has used fewer Ambien-tablets than before and has had much fewer nightmares or waking ups middle of the night.) Also his heart rate (resting and changes during and after exercises) is much more to his trainers' liking. They also feel that considering the situation difficult child has been less irritable and difficult than could be expected and think that could also be because of the medication and lowered background anxiety. He will have a phone appointment with his psychiatrist later this week about continuing/discontinuing BuSpar, but at least his team doctor is pushing him to continue. Atarax difficult child does like and has used it once or twice a week and feels it helps to cut the anxiety cycle. But it does carry over a bit for next day so he is not willing to use it more often. He has not yet had another full blown panic attack he wouldn't had been able to handle with breathing exercises and other non-drug methods so he doesn't know if Xanax will work for him or not. His stress over sport complicates things badly just now and I hope he gets to more stable phase with that so it would be easier to see what is just situational and what is real mental health problem. Could be that we will need to wait till thee end of the season before his life gets low-stress enough to really tell. [/QUOTE]
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