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Police Escort Called For Again - Inpatient Stay #4
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<blockquote data-quote="On_Call" data-source="post: 38828" data-attributes="member: 3211"><p>Thanks, all, for your support. </p><p></p><p>I visited difficult child last night - brought him some clothes, etc. We sat and played cards and visited for more than an hour. He is doing well, so far. He hates it there, though, and teared up when it was time for him to go back to the ward.</p><p></p><p>We have tried probably 20 medications over the course of the years and I can honestly say that the only one we saw anything really good was the zoloft, which we had to wean him off because when he was at full "saturation" point, the negative effects became evident. No other medication has seemed to make any positive impact. Most recently, he was on a fairly higher dose of lithium and seroquel and it did nothing to stop the episodes. Then, when his levels were in toxic range, we stopped the lithium - no difference. </p><p></p><p>I am still in a sort of a fog, but I did speak with difficult child's newest psychiatrist (whom I actually love) and she says this is our time to wean difficult child off the seroquel, see what his baseline is, and then decide on a next step. She is right that this is the best place to attempt anything this huge. The problem is, when difficult child is inpatient, he cannot have his outpatient doctors. I hate that. He will be assigned the dr. they have on call for the ward. Our psychiatrist will be very involved though, so that's encouraging. This psychiatrist faxed 50+ pages of notes, etc. to our insurance company the other day and changed their original denial of difficult child's precert, so she is definitely someone to have on our side. She is awesome and she is hopeful, so I guess I should be too.</p><p></p><p>I think I will get back to that - may take me a few days, though.</p><p></p><p>Thanks for the support and the words of wisdom. It is appreciated.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="On_Call, post: 38828, member: 3211"] Thanks, all, for your support. I visited difficult child last night - brought him some clothes, etc. We sat and played cards and visited for more than an hour. He is doing well, so far. He hates it there, though, and teared up when it was time for him to go back to the ward. We have tried probably 20 medications over the course of the years and I can honestly say that the only one we saw anything really good was the zoloft, which we had to wean him off because when he was at full "saturation" point, the negative effects became evident. No other medication has seemed to make any positive impact. Most recently, he was on a fairly higher dose of lithium and seroquel and it did nothing to stop the episodes. Then, when his levels were in toxic range, we stopped the lithium - no difference. I am still in a sort of a fog, but I did speak with difficult child's newest psychiatrist (whom I actually love) and she says this is our time to wean difficult child off the seroquel, see what his baseline is, and then decide on a next step. She is right that this is the best place to attempt anything this huge. The problem is, when difficult child is inpatient, he cannot have his outpatient doctors. I hate that. He will be assigned the dr. they have on call for the ward. Our psychiatrist will be very involved though, so that's encouraging. This psychiatrist faxed 50+ pages of notes, etc. to our insurance company the other day and changed their original denial of difficult child's precert, so she is definitely someone to have on our side. She is awesome and she is hopeful, so I guess I should be too. I think I will get back to that - may take me a few days, though. Thanks for the support and the words of wisdom. It is appreciated. [/QUOTE]
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