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Um, yeah he's just a little manic...
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<blockquote data-quote="seriously" data-source="post: 434002" data-attributes="member: 11920"><p>He is on Depakote ER. We dropped his dose to 1,000 mg today because his valproic acid level was almost 40 points too high - and the level was drawn just 2 hours before his once a day dose. No wonder the poor kid is shambling and hardly able to use a pencil.</p><p></p><p>We started the Geodon a year ago when he was hospitalized. It seemed to help quite a bit and it was the only medication he was on for several months. But I think it has started to poop out maybe. We tried upping the dose but it just made him sedated without improving the sx.</p><p></p><p>He will NOT take medications more than once a day so it's hard to manipulate that aspect of his treatment. That assumes of course that I would remember to make sure he got/took them on schedule and I'm not sure I would cause I'm feeling so overwhelmed.</p><p></p><p>This is really the first time we have seen discreet "traditional" manic sx with difficult child 2. Up til now it has been mixed/agitation, depression and what I think is really a lot of anxiety rather than "mood" disorder stuff. But it's all connected and there's no doubt that the mood piece has taken center stage. So it's probably going to take a while to get it sorted.</p><p></p><p>I'm worried that he will be too unstable to go to camp as planned. This would be devastating to everyone. But we still have a month until Oasis and that may be enough between having his medications stabilized and the supportive set up there to get him through it. Don't know if he'll be able to handle the trip down and back even then so I'm pondering driving him down to camp this year.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="seriously, post: 434002, member: 11920"] He is on Depakote ER. We dropped his dose to 1,000 mg today because his valproic acid level was almost 40 points too high - and the level was drawn just 2 hours before his once a day dose. No wonder the poor kid is shambling and hardly able to use a pencil. We started the Geodon a year ago when he was hospitalized. It seemed to help quite a bit and it was the only medication he was on for several months. But I think it has started to poop out maybe. We tried upping the dose but it just made him sedated without improving the sx. He will NOT take medications more than once a day so it's hard to manipulate that aspect of his treatment. That assumes of course that I would remember to make sure he got/took them on schedule and I'm not sure I would cause I'm feeling so overwhelmed. This is really the first time we have seen discreet "traditional" manic sx with difficult child 2. Up til now it has been mixed/agitation, depression and what I think is really a lot of anxiety rather than "mood" disorder stuff. But it's all connected and there's no doubt that the mood piece has taken center stage. So it's probably going to take a while to get it sorted. I'm worried that he will be too unstable to go to camp as planned. This would be devastating to everyone. But we still have a month until Oasis and that may be enough between having his medications stabilized and the supportive set up there to get him through it. Don't know if he'll be able to handle the trip down and back even then so I'm pondering driving him down to camp this year. [/QUOTE]
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