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<blockquote data-quote="rlsnights" data-source="post: 307855" data-attributes="member: 7948"><p>Thanks for all the ideas guys. No he has never had a neurology consult - none of his docs have ever been willing to refer him for one since he hasn't had any symptoms that they felt warranted one. We have an HMO and difficult child 2 already costs them 100 times more than the other 99&#37; of their patients - so no neurology referral. Plus there's only ONE pediatric neurologist for the entire University medical center and all it's affiliated docs. </p><p></p><p>difficult child 2 has multiple chronic health conditions and has his BiPolar (BP) checked at doctors office at least monthly (we end up there 1 to 2 times per month) plus his psychiatrist checks it most months. She sees him at least once every 4 weeks. His BiPolar (BP) during this visits has never been high.</p><p></p><p>He also has $2000 worth of blood tests run at least every 2-3 months and usually more often. In August they were run twice because his liver enzymes were elevated after we started him on Lamictal. The labs always include a random glucose and he has had fasting glucose done at least 3 times in the past 2 years when his random glucose was a little high.</p><p></p><p>One of the reasons we are trying to wean him from the Abilify is that we have seen a rise in his fasting glucose from the 70's to just over 100 since he started it. So the headache/rages could be related to glucose levels. Something else for me to observe and report to psychiatrist.</p><p></p><p>But I don't think that can explain everything. His rage on Friday afternoon started about and hour after we got home from school and he had a large snack about 45 minutes before it started. Same deal with the Saturday morning rage - he had had breakfast at least 30 minutes before that.</p><p></p><p>I assumed that his BiPolar (BP) gets really high during a rage and that may be the cause of the headache. But there is no way he would sit still for me to take his BiPolar (BP) then. Don't know how soon afterwards he would let me. We don't have a BiPolar (BP) cuff. I sent an update to his psychiatrist last night and included the info about the headaches. I think I will wait for her feedback/instructions before I go get a cuff, etc.</p><p></p><p>He reports that the headache comes on after he starts getting angry - not before. And it is usually gone within 20 minutes of him calming down.</p><p></p><p>G2g and get everyone off to school.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rlsnights, post: 307855, member: 7948"] Thanks for all the ideas guys. No he has never had a neurology consult - none of his docs have ever been willing to refer him for one since he hasn't had any symptoms that they felt warranted one. We have an HMO and difficult child 2 already costs them 100 times more than the other 99% of their patients - so no neurology referral. Plus there's only ONE pediatric neurologist for the entire University medical center and all it's affiliated docs. difficult child 2 has multiple chronic health conditions and has his BiPolar (BP) checked at doctors office at least monthly (we end up there 1 to 2 times per month) plus his psychiatrist checks it most months. She sees him at least once every 4 weeks. His BiPolar (BP) during this visits has never been high. He also has $2000 worth of blood tests run at least every 2-3 months and usually more often. In August they were run twice because his liver enzymes were elevated after we started him on Lamictal. The labs always include a random glucose and he has had fasting glucose done at least 3 times in the past 2 years when his random glucose was a little high. One of the reasons we are trying to wean him from the Abilify is that we have seen a rise in his fasting glucose from the 70's to just over 100 since he started it. So the headache/rages could be related to glucose levels. Something else for me to observe and report to psychiatrist. But I don't think that can explain everything. His rage on Friday afternoon started about and hour after we got home from school and he had a large snack about 45 minutes before it started. Same deal with the Saturday morning rage - he had had breakfast at least 30 minutes before that. I assumed that his BiPolar (BP) gets really high during a rage and that may be the cause of the headache. But there is no way he would sit still for me to take his BiPolar (BP) then. Don't know how soon afterwards he would let me. We don't have a BiPolar (BP) cuff. I sent an update to his psychiatrist last night and included the info about the headaches. I think I will wait for her feedback/instructions before I go get a cuff, etc. He reports that the headache comes on after he starts getting angry - not before. And it is usually gone within 20 minutes of him calming down. G2g and get everyone off to school. [/QUOTE]
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