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Taking difficult child off medications, did I screw up?
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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 368599" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Go to a GP to help reduce medications.</p><p>The symtoms you are discussing are common with Depakote, especially too much Depakote. My teen daughter was on it and hated it. She said "I'm qutiting. I can't think while I'm on it." She threw it away (she was 19). She was sleeping all the time on Depakote, got cysts (Depakote can cause cysts in females) and was in college and said her memory was gone. </p><p></p><p>A GP can help you reduce the medication. You may want to see a neuropsychologist first. in my opinion they diagnose better and they will see very young children and since they do intensive testing, you can get closer to what the real problem is without medication for now. I'm not a huge fan of medicating a very young child too much, since there is rarely a concrete diagnosis. So I think you're doing the right thing, but I'd get a doctor on board. It does NOT have to be a psychiatrist though.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 368599, member: 1550"] Go to a GP to help reduce medications. The symtoms you are discussing are common with Depakote, especially too much Depakote. My teen daughter was on it and hated it. She said "I'm qutiting. I can't think while I'm on it." She threw it away (she was 19). She was sleeping all the time on Depakote, got cysts (Depakote can cause cysts in females) and was in college and said her memory was gone. A GP can help you reduce the medication. You may want to see a neuropsychologist first. in my opinion they diagnose better and they will see very young children and since they do intensive testing, you can get closer to what the real problem is without medication for now. I'm not a huge fan of medicating a very young child too much, since there is rarely a concrete diagnosis. So I think you're doing the right thing, but I'd get a doctor on board. It does NOT have to be a psychiatrist though. [/QUOTE]
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