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They want to medicate without knowing what he has!
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<blockquote data-quote="gcvmom" data-source="post: 101170" data-attributes="member: 3444"><p>Just a thought, but you can certainly have the pediatrician monitor him during these next few weeks if you decide to try the medication. The only problem I've had with this, though, is that our pediatrician knows less than I do about some of these medications my difficult child's are on! </p><p></p><p>For example... difficult child 2 was on too high a dose of Depakote and started peeing the bed after being dry for about six years. I asked the pediatrician about it and he said he didn't know of any connection between Depakote and bed wetting. Well, it didn't take too much Googling on the internet for me to learn that it was DIRECTLY connected to the bed wetting. When I finally spoke to the psychiatrist about it, he had us split the dose and BAM! no more bedwetting :smile: </p><p></p><p>Your best approach, from my experience, is to do A LOT of reading, ask A LOT of questions, and then listen to your instincts.</p><p></p><p>And ditto to the whole "trial and error" nature of treating these conditions. It's a frustrating fact of mental illness. The docs sometimes have to just aim for a cluster of symptoms to treat and hope that the medications which are designed for those symptoms solve the problem. It gets tricky when there is more than one issue at work, because what you see on the outside isn't necessarily representative of the real picture on the inside of the person.</p><p></p><p>Hang in there!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gcvmom, post: 101170, member: 3444"] Just a thought, but you can certainly have the pediatrician monitor him during these next few weeks if you decide to try the medication. The only problem I've had with this, though, is that our pediatrician knows less than I do about some of these medications my difficult child's are on! For example... difficult child 2 was on too high a dose of Depakote and started peeing the bed after being dry for about six years. I asked the pediatrician about it and he said he didn't know of any connection between Depakote and bed wetting. Well, it didn't take too much Googling on the internet for me to learn that it was DIRECTLY connected to the bed wetting. When I finally spoke to the psychiatrist about it, he had us split the dose and BAM! no more bedwetting [img]:smile:[/img] Your best approach, from my experience, is to do A LOT of reading, ask A LOT of questions, and then listen to your instincts. And ditto to the whole "trial and error" nature of treating these conditions. It's a frustrating fact of mental illness. The docs sometimes have to just aim for a cluster of symptoms to treat and hope that the medications which are designed for those symptoms solve the problem. It gets tricky when there is more than one issue at work, because what you see on the outside isn't necessarily representative of the real picture on the inside of the person. Hang in there! [/QUOTE]
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