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<blockquote data-quote="taj616" data-source="post: 437848" data-attributes="member: 12192"><p><span style="color: #800000"><em>Thanks for the responses so far.</em></span></p><p><span style="color: #800000"><em>I don't think she wants to go to a support group right now, and wouldn't go to one willingly. I do keep telling her that she's not alone...other kids are anxious too! I usually get the standard "How do you know?"...</em></span></p><p><span style="color: #800000"><em></em></span></p><p><span style="color: #800000"><em>@Kiesta -- I talked to my 14-year old's peds GI about her sister and he had suggested peppermint oil capsules to help sooth/relax her stomach. She wouldn't take the first one...put up such a stink about it (while grandma and grandpa where here) then grandpa offered her $10 to take it and she did. 4 days into taking them, something made her morning capsule open pre-maturely (I think it was acid from fresh pineapple she ate for breakfast) and she was in the school nurse's office...on the phone with me, concerned the feeling was going to make her "blah" (she won't call it throwing up or vomit). Needless to say, she refuses to take them again. She does take Meclizine (OTC) for long car rides. We also had a anti-nausea bracelet for her we used in 4th grade when she worried about the bus rides. She used it for only a short while and then stopped because I think she felt it didn't work. </em></span></p><p><span style="color: #800000"><em></em></span></p><p><span style="color: #800000"><em>And yes, she does worry herself into legitimate stomach problems...causing her to need Prilosec for a week or two. It is a horrible cycle and Keista, you hit it on the head by calling it a "chicken and the egg" scenario. I've often wondered myself what came first the worries or the stomach aches. It's probably a bit of both.</em></span></p><p><span style="color: #800000"><em></em></span></p><p><span style="color: #800000"><em>**one positive note -- she didn't fall apart, dissolve into a puddle of tummy issues, following her first 5mg Prozac this morning -- Yay!! She was so worked up about taking it I figured she'd say it hurt her stomach simply because her stomach was already hurting before she took it with the worrying she was doing.(took her about 45 minutes of crying and getting angry and refusal before she finally took it) Hopefully tomorrow she'll take it a little more willingly and it'll get easier day by day...and we'll see her become more of the girl I remember before this all started. (silent prayers)</em></span></p><p><span style="color: #800000"><em></em></span></p><p><span style="color: #800000"><em>Thanks!</em></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="taj616, post: 437848, member: 12192"] [COLOR=#800000][I]Thanks for the responses so far. I don't think she wants to go to a support group right now, and wouldn't go to one willingly. I do keep telling her that she's not alone...other kids are anxious too! I usually get the standard "How do you know?"... @Kiesta -- I talked to my 14-year old's peds GI about her sister and he had suggested peppermint oil capsules to help sooth/relax her stomach. She wouldn't take the first one...put up such a stink about it (while grandma and grandpa where here) then grandpa offered her $10 to take it and she did. 4 days into taking them, something made her morning capsule open pre-maturely (I think it was acid from fresh pineapple she ate for breakfast) and she was in the school nurse's office...on the phone with me, concerned the feeling was going to make her "blah" (she won't call it throwing up or vomit). Needless to say, she refuses to take them again. She does take Meclizine (OTC) for long car rides. We also had a anti-nausea bracelet for her we used in 4th grade when she worried about the bus rides. She used it for only a short while and then stopped because I think she felt it didn't work. And yes, she does worry herself into legitimate stomach problems...causing her to need Prilosec for a week or two. It is a horrible cycle and Keista, you hit it on the head by calling it a "chicken and the egg" scenario. I've often wondered myself what came first the worries or the stomach aches. It's probably a bit of both. **one positive note -- she didn't fall apart, dissolve into a puddle of tummy issues, following her first 5mg Prozac this morning -- Yay!! She was so worked up about taking it I figured she'd say it hurt her stomach simply because her stomach was already hurting before she took it with the worrying she was doing.(took her about 45 minutes of crying and getting angry and refusal before she finally took it) Hopefully tomorrow she'll take it a little more willingly and it'll get easier day by day...and we'll see her become more of the girl I remember before this all started. (silent prayers) Thanks![/I][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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