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<blockquote data-quote="gcvmom" data-source="post: 136817" data-attributes="member: 3444"><p>Is the propranolol to help with her tremor? </p><p> </p><p>My difficult child 2 takes that because his hands were very unsteady and we thought it was because of the Depakote and stimulants possibly... it never really helped the tremor, AND I just learned today the real cause of his tremor (it's actually Sydenham's Chorea) so he'll probably be coming off it next week.</p><p> </p><p>I would also vote for rounding up support folks to help you with a drug holiday over the summer. Any family or friends you can rely on for a big favor like that? That's really the best time for it, even if things are less structured than during the school year. You can work around that with planned activities or a daily schedule.</p><p> </p><p>We went through a medication wash last summer because of all the problems difficult child 2 was having -- I felt like I didn't know who this kid was anymore or what medication was causing what behavior/side effect. I needed to just start over from square one. That was a rough period, but I'm glad we did it, because he'd been on stuff since he was 5 (he was 10 1/2 at the time) and we had seen an evolution of symptoms which made things complicated. Now we have a better idea of what we're dealing with, I think. (AND he's getting a neuropsychologist evaluation at the end of the month).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gcvmom, post: 136817, member: 3444"] Is the propranolol to help with her tremor? My difficult child 2 takes that because his hands were very unsteady and we thought it was because of the Depakote and stimulants possibly... it never really helped the tremor, AND I just learned today the real cause of his tremor (it's actually Sydenham's Chorea) so he'll probably be coming off it next week. I would also vote for rounding up support folks to help you with a drug holiday over the summer. Any family or friends you can rely on for a big favor like that? That's really the best time for it, even if things are less structured than during the school year. You can work around that with planned activities or a daily schedule. We went through a medication wash last summer because of all the problems difficult child 2 was having -- I felt like I didn't know who this kid was anymore or what medication was causing what behavior/side effect. I needed to just start over from square one. That was a rough period, but I'm glad we did it, because he'd been on stuff since he was 5 (he was 10 1/2 at the time) and we had seen an evolution of symptoms which made things complicated. Now we have a better idea of what we're dealing with, I think. (AND he's getting a neuropsychologist evaluation at the end of the month). [/QUOTE]
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