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running out of ideas for medications - any suggestions?
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<blockquote data-quote="ellenr1" data-source="post: 16103" data-attributes="member: 2547"><p>She's has had that benign rash (exacerbated by long hot showers and the indoor dry air) since Thanksgiving, and that's when the effexor was upped to 225 mg. and the lamictal upped as well.</p><p></p><p>So her mood has been fragile, crabby, depressed, and I've been chalking it up to the divorce and not getting her way about attending a therapeutic boarding school. Now, I think you have to throw in there the withdrawal effects of all the AD's, mood stabilizers and atypical anti-psychotics she's been on.</p><p></p><p>Get this: I'm waiting for a call from the ENT to find out if she has mononucleosis! She got sick nearly ten days ago and her pediatrician put her on Augmentin for strep, even though the strep culture was negative. The sore throat went away but not the fatigure, and she had a bulge on the left side of her neck that got bigger and smaller depending on how tired or rested she was. The ENT is 99% sure it's mono, which would account for some of the symptoms that I thought were medication withdrawal. </p><p></p><p>I called her psychiatric doctor yesterday to tell him she has been unable to sleep for the past couple of days and he phoned in a sleep aid so she could at least get some rest at night and resume school (before we suspected mono). My daughter spoke to him when he called back and he told her that he thought that the Effexor "was out of her system by now."</p><p></p><p>Now this guy commands a lot of respect in our community and gets $500/initial exam, $250 for follow up medication managment visit (our plan doesn't cover him so we pay O-O-P and are praying that Cigna Behavioral will give us something back). Everyone says he's the best. He is willing to supervise a medication wash and from reading the posts, I'm leaning more and more that way. </p><p></p><p>She upped her dose of Abilify to 10 mg. today. If the agitation comes back and doesn't go away, then that's it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ellenr1, post: 16103, member: 2547"] She's has had that benign rash (exacerbated by long hot showers and the indoor dry air) since Thanksgiving, and that's when the effexor was upped to 225 mg. and the lamictal upped as well. So her mood has been fragile, crabby, depressed, and I've been chalking it up to the divorce and not getting her way about attending a therapeutic boarding school. Now, I think you have to throw in there the withdrawal effects of all the AD's, mood stabilizers and atypical anti-psychotics she's been on. Get this: I'm waiting for a call from the ENT to find out if she has mononucleosis! She got sick nearly ten days ago and her pediatrician put her on Augmentin for strep, even though the strep culture was negative. The sore throat went away but not the fatigure, and she had a bulge on the left side of her neck that got bigger and smaller depending on how tired or rested she was. The ENT is 99% sure it's mono, which would account for some of the symptoms that I thought were medication withdrawal. I called her psychiatric doctor yesterday to tell him she has been unable to sleep for the past couple of days and he phoned in a sleep aid so she could at least get some rest at night and resume school (before we suspected mono). My daughter spoke to him when he called back and he told her that he thought that the Effexor "was out of her system by now." Now this guy commands a lot of respect in our community and gets $500/initial exam, $250 for follow up medication managment visit (our plan doesn't cover him so we pay O-O-P and are praying that Cigna Behavioral will give us something back). Everyone says he's the best. He is willing to supervise a medication wash and from reading the posts, I'm leaning more and more that way. She upped her dose of Abilify to 10 mg. today. If the agitation comes back and doesn't go away, then that's it. [/QUOTE]
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