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Mom? What's a difficult child?
I am a little flustered right now. We waited months and numerous phone calls to find this new psychiatrist... This was our last resort the only one in the area we could get into to. Well we saw her about 3 weeks ago or so since then difficult child started Abilify and we have been working with our pediatrician on doseage as well. (New psychiatrist just said start at 2mg go up 5mg as you see fit if she tolerates it)...OK
So I called her Tuesday and left a brief message with Abilify amount and that we did Difficult Child the Triliptal etc. That I would like to have a medication consult & could she call me, she did say at our meeting to call anytime by the way, I heard nothing... I called Wednesday left a message with secretary, I heard nothing, Today, nothing... The secretary said she was there.
Then I called our pediatrician today and only heard back from the nurse practitioner, so pediatrician will call back in the am... ( if it was an emergency our pediatrician would have called) :doctor:
I guess I am wondering if this is common and should I be pissed? Because I am... I am just so sick of our health care system here...
This is after my call to the mental health dept this week when they told me that young children can't be BiPolar (BP), I had to argue with them about the DSM-IV guidlines and explain that they can't be diagnosis'd usually with it but they can indeed "BE BiPolar (BP)" After they realized I new what I was talking about and that difficult child was in the bipolar spectrum... they let me know that they really didn't have any services to offer us!!! The guy was very nice and he was going to look into a social group and some kind of speech therapy but he didn't think they had anything. And they had not been in the public school that difficult child is supossed to go to next year. OK.
So know I am going to call the the school dept again and see if i can get someone to talk to us there... one last resort again.
I guess I am at my wits end with lack of services... no services here. I don't know what we will do if this psychiatrist doesn't work out... I am really scared for difficult child. She is unstable as it is and we are working to get her up to being on a mood stabilizer. I need a stinking psychiatrist!!! We do have an apt April 23 I think a Monday, It is also the date of husband court date!!! So I have to go by myself to psychiatrist. I just don't want to end up going with the girls all stressed out and mad. I just hope I hear from her before the apt.
Are psychiatrist in Chicago, I had her direct phone number and her e-mail!!! I wish we could still use her... :sad:
Sorry to ramble I just don't know what to do everytime I get her moving forward we get some stupid setback, I just want to help the poor thing... today i had to take her to sign some papers and she was shaking and crying and sobbing "I don't want to leave the house, please Mommy don't make me leave, I just want to stay at my home" She was so anxious, I could see the fear in her eyes. But I had no choice. We got the call last minute and I had to meet husband to sign these papers and had no choice! I mean what do I do? I have no stinking help noone to ask what to do except you guys, noone understands... because she "looks fine" ugh.
Thanks
So I called her Tuesday and left a brief message with Abilify amount and that we did Difficult Child the Triliptal etc. That I would like to have a medication consult & could she call me, she did say at our meeting to call anytime by the way, I heard nothing... I called Wednesday left a message with secretary, I heard nothing, Today, nothing... The secretary said she was there.
Then I called our pediatrician today and only heard back from the nurse practitioner, so pediatrician will call back in the am... ( if it was an emergency our pediatrician would have called) :doctor:
I guess I am wondering if this is common and should I be pissed? Because I am... I am just so sick of our health care system here...
This is after my call to the mental health dept this week when they told me that young children can't be BiPolar (BP), I had to argue with them about the DSM-IV guidlines and explain that they can't be diagnosis'd usually with it but they can indeed "BE BiPolar (BP)" After they realized I new what I was talking about and that difficult child was in the bipolar spectrum... they let me know that they really didn't have any services to offer us!!! The guy was very nice and he was going to look into a social group and some kind of speech therapy but he didn't think they had anything. And they had not been in the public school that difficult child is supossed to go to next year. OK.
So know I am going to call the the school dept again and see if i can get someone to talk to us there... one last resort again.
I guess I am at my wits end with lack of services... no services here. I don't know what we will do if this psychiatrist doesn't work out... I am really scared for difficult child. She is unstable as it is and we are working to get her up to being on a mood stabilizer. I need a stinking psychiatrist!!! We do have an apt April 23 I think a Monday, It is also the date of husband court date!!! So I have to go by myself to psychiatrist. I just don't want to end up going with the girls all stressed out and mad. I just hope I hear from her before the apt.
Are psychiatrist in Chicago, I had her direct phone number and her e-mail!!! I wish we could still use her... :sad:
Sorry to ramble I just don't know what to do everytime I get her moving forward we get some stupid setback, I just want to help the poor thing... today i had to take her to sign some papers and she was shaking and crying and sobbing "I don't want to leave the house, please Mommy don't make me leave, I just want to stay at my home" She was so anxious, I could see the fear in her eyes. But I had no choice. We got the call last minute and I had to meet husband to sign these papers and had no choice! I mean what do I do? I have no stinking help noone to ask what to do except you guys, noone understands... because she "looks fine" ugh.
Thanks