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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 193428" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>Thanks, MWM! Fortunately, psychiatrist seems to put a lot of weight on my input- although he will get stern if he is sure of something. Usually, we make a compromise- like "let's try this for a while" when that happens. Anyway, I am not fond of the approach where a medication has to be added to take care of a side effect so many times that a kid ends up on five different medications at one time, most of which are to counteract the effect of another one. Maybe sometimes that can't be avoided but I want to avoid it when possible. I didn't know depakote could cause shaking- difficult child would love it if his went away, however, I honestly can't remember if that only started after depakote was introduced.</p><p></p><p>I was thinking- difficult child takes 250 mg of depakote er in am and 250 in pm. I'll talk to psychiatrist next week and see about taking off pm dosage for a while. Maybe the effect will just be making me crazy in the evenings and needing to do homework at school so he isn't trying to "settle down" to do it after the first dose wears off. Then maybe, he might do better understanding homework this way- if I can get him to sit down long enough. LOL!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 193428, member: 3699"] Thanks, MWM! Fortunately, psychiatrist seems to put a lot of weight on my input- although he will get stern if he is sure of something. Usually, we make a compromise- like "let's try this for a while" when that happens. Anyway, I am not fond of the approach where a medication has to be added to take care of a side effect so many times that a kid ends up on five different medications at one time, most of which are to counteract the effect of another one. Maybe sometimes that can't be avoided but I want to avoid it when possible. I didn't know depakote could cause shaking- difficult child would love it if his went away, however, I honestly can't remember if that only started after depakote was introduced. I was thinking- difficult child takes 250 mg of depakote er in am and 250 in pm. I'll talk to psychiatrist next week and see about taking off pm dosage for a while. Maybe the effect will just be making me crazy in the evenings and needing to do homework at school so he isn't trying to "settle down" to do it after the first dose wears off. Then maybe, he might do better understanding homework this way- if I can get him to sit down long enough. LOL! [/QUOTE]
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