lonelyroad
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This is taking a horrible toll on our family, but worst toll is on our 13 year old, I just need someone to chat with who is going thru this...
It all started Xmas 2010, so we have been BATTLING this for 15 months, no end in sight...they won't say bipolar yet, but reading about the different drugs we have tried I think that's what they think. They keep saying it is hormonal...and she matured very early, period at 11 years, one month. She is the size of a fully mature female, yet her brain isn't so the medications are tricky...
Each "cycle" lasts about 6 weeks, we have four "normal" weeks, then 10 or more days of extreme sadness, unworthiness, hate, weight gain, sleeping all the time, sheer exhaustion...and in that time cannot go to school.
We tried zoloft, no luck, prozac for 6 months, no luck, now she is on 100 mg of Seroquel XR and if anything this last episode has been the WORST!! We are on day 10 of this cycle and no sign of it letting up.
All she talks about is wanting to die...no point living like this..last night, the only friend that has stuck around, her boyfriend, she told him basically to go away..and he agreed and then she was even more upset...I told her not to make decisions like this when she was that upset...
All her close friends, that she had since she was 4 are gone...
Back to the Psychiatrist today, I need her off this medication as it is making her violent, huge outbursts that have never happened before. The Doctor says she is a puzzle as she isn't reacting to any medications...
Grade 8 is supposed to be such a great year, Graduation, big trip, she is missing everything...
I am almost tempted to get her off ALL medications and see what happens, trust me it can't be any worse then this
Newest drug we just started is Ability, praying it will help...
It all started Xmas 2010, so we have been BATTLING this for 15 months, no end in sight...they won't say bipolar yet, but reading about the different drugs we have tried I think that's what they think. They keep saying it is hormonal...and she matured very early, period at 11 years, one month. She is the size of a fully mature female, yet her brain isn't so the medications are tricky...
Each "cycle" lasts about 6 weeks, we have four "normal" weeks, then 10 or more days of extreme sadness, unworthiness, hate, weight gain, sleeping all the time, sheer exhaustion...and in that time cannot go to school.
We tried zoloft, no luck, prozac for 6 months, no luck, now she is on 100 mg of Seroquel XR and if anything this last episode has been the WORST!! We are on day 10 of this cycle and no sign of it letting up.
All she talks about is wanting to die...no point living like this..last night, the only friend that has stuck around, her boyfriend, she told him basically to go away..and he agreed and then she was even more upset...I told her not to make decisions like this when she was that upset...
All her close friends, that she had since she was 4 are gone...
Back to the Psychiatrist today, I need her off this medication as it is making her violent, huge outbursts that have never happened before. The Doctor says she is a puzzle as she isn't reacting to any medications...
Grade 8 is supposed to be such a great year, Graduation, big trip, she is missing everything...
I am almost tempted to get her off ALL medications and see what happens, trust me it can't be any worse then this
Newest drug we just started is Ability, praying it will help...