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<blockquote data-quote="IT1967" data-source="post: 566613" data-attributes="member: 15615"><p>Thank you all so much for your responses! I'm glad I've come here. I found this board quite a while ago, but just wasn't ready to face it all. I'm also overwhelmed by how much knowledge you all have and is available here. Thank you! I'm going to try to answer a few questions in the hopes of hearing any other suggestions. A typical day in our house starts out usually ok. I can get them out the door in the AM fairly easily. It's after school when everything immediately starts to go south until bedtime. And of course, my daughter is struggling in school every day. She has meltdowns from what I can tell every day over something - a paper on her desk that shouldn't be there, all the kids being forced to stay inside for 5 minutes of recess, her forgetting her library books or violin, etc... Some way worse than others. I still can't tell if the Risperdal is working. We follow up with-the psychiatrist this afternoon. It's been 4 days and *maybe* there's some improvement?? I'm going to check in with-the teacher to get her thoughts before our appointment. After school, my one or the other of my kids falls apart over this and that for pretty much the rest of the day. They fight with-each other brutally. They are obsessed with-"fairness". If one gets something and the other doesn't, they lose it completely and go after each other. Both my kids are seeing a child psychologist. She's done a ton of testing on my daughter. She felt that since so many previous doctors. diagnosis'ed my son as ADHD, she didn't need to delve into the testing more, but I think she should because he's very similar to my daughter, just not quite on the same level of intensity - although, until this year, she was not as bad as she is now. We've never done any allergy testing - could an allergy cause this much psychological distress? I don't really think so and neither of my kids has any kind of physical problems from most food. Although, I will say my house is fairly "clean". I do a lot of organics and do my best to keep artificial colors and flavors out of the house because I have read that that can make ADHD worse. I have the name of a neuropsychologist and will look into if my insurance will cover it. Wouldn't it be redundant to have my daughter see a neuropsychologist after all the testing she's had done? I am thinking I should definitely take my son to him, since he hasn't had such extensive testing. Also, at school, my daughter was evaluated by an Occupational Therapist (OT) and found to have sensory issues - not severe, but there definitely are some. I kinda was thinking that was the least of my worries, but maybe it plays a bigger role than I thought. The child psychologist does not think so, but I just bought my daughter a fiddler ring and little squishy guy and she likes them and has been taking them to school. And I just started reading "The Explosive Child" and it describes my kids exactly. I think I've tried Plans A, B and C, but I'm going to keep trying to follow the book's advice. As far as babysitters, yes, we do use them. But it's annoying because I'll have to send one kid to a grandparent's house, because I'm afraid my current babysitter couldn't handle them together alone. I can barely handle them together alone. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /> Or we have to split them up between the grandparents. It's a lot of juggling. And neither of our moms are that young, so I hate imposing on them too much. I'm going to report back here after the child psychiatrist today and our appointment. tomorrow for our son.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IT1967, post: 566613, member: 15615"] Thank you all so much for your responses! I'm glad I've come here. I found this board quite a while ago, but just wasn't ready to face it all. I'm also overwhelmed by how much knowledge you all have and is available here. Thank you! I'm going to try to answer a few questions in the hopes of hearing any other suggestions. A typical day in our house starts out usually ok. I can get them out the door in the AM fairly easily. It's after school when everything immediately starts to go south until bedtime. And of course, my daughter is struggling in school every day. She has meltdowns from what I can tell every day over something - a paper on her desk that shouldn't be there, all the kids being forced to stay inside for 5 minutes of recess, her forgetting her library books or violin, etc... Some way worse than others. I still can't tell if the Risperdal is working. We follow up with-the psychiatrist this afternoon. It's been 4 days and *maybe* there's some improvement?? I'm going to check in with-the teacher to get her thoughts before our appointment. After school, my one or the other of my kids falls apart over this and that for pretty much the rest of the day. They fight with-each other brutally. They are obsessed with-"fairness". If one gets something and the other doesn't, they lose it completely and go after each other. Both my kids are seeing a child psychologist. She's done a ton of testing on my daughter. She felt that since so many previous doctors. diagnosis'ed my son as ADHD, she didn't need to delve into the testing more, but I think she should because he's very similar to my daughter, just not quite on the same level of intensity - although, until this year, she was not as bad as she is now. We've never done any allergy testing - could an allergy cause this much psychological distress? I don't really think so and neither of my kids has any kind of physical problems from most food. Although, I will say my house is fairly "clean". I do a lot of organics and do my best to keep artificial colors and flavors out of the house because I have read that that can make ADHD worse. I have the name of a neuropsychologist and will look into if my insurance will cover it. Wouldn't it be redundant to have my daughter see a neuropsychologist after all the testing she's had done? I am thinking I should definitely take my son to him, since he hasn't had such extensive testing. Also, at school, my daughter was evaluated by an Occupational Therapist (OT) and found to have sensory issues - not severe, but there definitely are some. I kinda was thinking that was the least of my worries, but maybe it plays a bigger role than I thought. The child psychologist does not think so, but I just bought my daughter a fiddler ring and little squishy guy and she likes them and has been taking them to school. And I just started reading "The Explosive Child" and it describes my kids exactly. I think I've tried Plans A, B and C, but I'm going to keep trying to follow the book's advice. As far as babysitters, yes, we do use them. But it's annoying because I'll have to send one kid to a grandparent's house, because I'm afraid my current babysitter couldn't handle them together alone. I can barely handle them together alone. :( Or we have to split them up between the grandparents. It's a lot of juggling. And neither of our moms are that young, so I hate imposing on them too much. I'm going to report back here after the child psychiatrist today and our appointment. tomorrow for our son. [/QUOTE]
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