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Taking difficult child off medications, did I screw up?
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<blockquote data-quote="maxeygirls" data-source="post: 368609" data-attributes="member: 8869"><p>smallworld- I'm looking into one, without the psychiatrist's help it's hard. Trying to find a developmental pediatrician who is actually covered by our insurance to refer us. </p><p>NVTS- I am convinced the diagnosis is more wrong than right. There are no other psychiatrists in town who will treat her and are covered by our insurance. Her psychiatrist told me to cut her Abilify in half for 5 days, give her 2 days to adjust, cut her Depakene in half for 7 days then stop cold turkey. I was NOT comfortable with such a rapid method and contacted the pharmacist who was able to give me a more gentle schedule, taking difficult child off bit by bit. The pediatrician is on board 100% but doesn't feel comfortable enough with such heavy medications at difficult child's age to handle this herself. I dodnt even know about NAMI, I will look into it later today.</p><p>SRL- Im really trying to take care of myself, it's hard considering I'm sick again with difficult child not sleeping. husband has been gone for military stuff and just experienced his first night with difficult child like this. He's exhausted, short tempered and would pull his hair out if his head wasn't shaved. He now understands why I said he was kind of lucky to be deployed through the worst of this over the last year.</p><p>The biggest thing that stands out in my mind through all of this is that difficult child continued to have these issues even while medicated. With Depakene and Risperdal she was drugged, dazed, slurring, sleeping 24/7, with a slight change in the Risperdal she was bouncing off the walls. With Depakene alone she was semi-stable but unable to sleep well and with Abilify added it was as if a calm child was fighting a demon and it was anyone's guess who would win that day. The violence I saw last year as well as on the Abilify is now gone after over a week of having no Abilify, which is great. Im really considering trying to keep difficult child up today instead of letting her crash to see if she'll sleep all night tonight.</p><p>At this point, Im really glad husband and I have had so many struggles in our marriage because we're able to bond together right now, minus a few sleepy jabs at each other around 4am while easy child was screaming due to difficult child waking her up for a 3rd time (easy child sleeps 12-13 hours, wake her up 10 minutes early and she's NOT happy). </p><p>I also spoke with husband about working out a sleep schedule for us. He's home at 3-3:30 and I figure if I go to sleep immediately, he can handle dinner and bed times, go to sleep when the girls do and I'll wake up a few hours after that when difficult child gets up. It gives me anywhere from 5-7 hours a night. </p><p>Right now my biggest fear is running out of coffee...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="maxeygirls, post: 368609, member: 8869"] smallworld- I'm looking into one, without the psychiatrist's help it's hard. Trying to find a developmental pediatrician who is actually covered by our insurance to refer us. NVTS- I am convinced the diagnosis is more wrong than right. There are no other psychiatrists in town who will treat her and are covered by our insurance. Her psychiatrist told me to cut her Abilify in half for 5 days, give her 2 days to adjust, cut her Depakene in half for 7 days then stop cold turkey. I was NOT comfortable with such a rapid method and contacted the pharmacist who was able to give me a more gentle schedule, taking difficult child off bit by bit. The pediatrician is on board 100% but doesn't feel comfortable enough with such heavy medications at difficult child's age to handle this herself. I dodnt even know about NAMI, I will look into it later today. SRL- Im really trying to take care of myself, it's hard considering I'm sick again with difficult child not sleeping. husband has been gone for military stuff and just experienced his first night with difficult child like this. He's exhausted, short tempered and would pull his hair out if his head wasn't shaved. He now understands why I said he was kind of lucky to be deployed through the worst of this over the last year. The biggest thing that stands out in my mind through all of this is that difficult child continued to have these issues even while medicated. With Depakene and Risperdal she was drugged, dazed, slurring, sleeping 24/7, with a slight change in the Risperdal she was bouncing off the walls. With Depakene alone she was semi-stable but unable to sleep well and with Abilify added it was as if a calm child was fighting a demon and it was anyone's guess who would win that day. The violence I saw last year as well as on the Abilify is now gone after over a week of having no Abilify, which is great. Im really considering trying to keep difficult child up today instead of letting her crash to see if she'll sleep all night tonight. At this point, Im really glad husband and I have had so many struggles in our marriage because we're able to bond together right now, minus a few sleepy jabs at each other around 4am while easy child was screaming due to difficult child waking her up for a 3rd time (easy child sleeps 12-13 hours, wake her up 10 minutes early and she's NOT happy). I also spoke with husband about working out a sleep schedule for us. He's home at 3-3:30 and I figure if I go to sleep immediately, he can handle dinner and bed times, go to sleep when the girls do and I'll wake up a few hours after that when difficult child gets up. It gives me anywhere from 5-7 hours a night. Right now my biggest fear is running out of coffee... [/QUOTE]
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