aggressive child

Hi, remember me (the overnight change). We went for the second blood test for strep, and it was negative. I know the doctor is not up on PANDAS, and I still think he might have missed something. We have an appointment for a full physical next friday, and I am going to ask for a neuro workup...

Duping some of what momtoalex had to say. My timing in finding this board (almost a year ago!) was very lucky and we have followed Pico's advice re building a village. We had already had difficult child thoroughly checked out by family physician for possible medical causes, had had a specialized...

I am new here but by no means new to messageboards. I am at my wits end up my daughter(difficult child#3). Currently she is upstairs screaming that I am mean and she hates me. As much as it hurts me, I am able to just turn my back and walk away which sometimes stops the screaming. She was a preemie born at...

Hello, I am new to all of this, do not even know where to begin. I have a step daughter who is 10 that is just out of control! Quick run down, my husband got custody back in 2004 when her mother decided drugs were more important than her daughter. My hubby and i got together in 2009. He had...

Spent almost an hour on the phone with the inpatient psychiatrist Dr. C. She is great and I am so relieved we got her. She's keeping him for at least a couple days, maybe a week. Dr. C said he was "all over the place" there and they had to give him both Klonopin and Trazadone to get him to sleep last...

So, Miss Kanga didn't even last a month at her first job. She got written up in the first week for manipulating to have her schedule changed to match her boyfriends. Then she got fired today for 'inappropriate sexual behavior' (don't know if I can say exactly what she did without the censors...

so i began it tonight with her, super low dosage i cut the 25mg pill in half. she was hypomanic, couldn't sit still, aggitated, been this way for past 4 days now leading up to holidays is a trigger for her. she was restless miserable and said mom when am i starting that new medication?? i was...

difficult child has been on Depakene (500mg/day) since July of last year, risperdal from July until April and Abilify (2mg/day) from April to now... well until a week ago actually. I had made the decision to remove difficult child from her medications for several reasons; finding out exactly who is under the medications, fears of...

but I won't. difficult child 2 shared some interesting information with me this afternoon. Apparently, difficult child 2 has been forgetting to go to the office at lunch to take his afternoon Seroquel XR dose. Apparently, the health clerk is getting tired of paging difficult child 2 to come to the office when he forgets to go...

So now it's pretty obvious difficult child has cervical dystonia which goes to upper back/shoulders as well. We stopped Geodon, and he's back on 15mg Abilify and 2 mg of Benztropin. I think dystonia abated a bit after a week or two of this dose of Benztropin, but far from 0. Very correlated with him...

Our daughter has been in the residential treatment center for two weeks and we had our first phone therapy session yesterday. We talked to the therapist without our daughter for a few minutes. What the therapist had perceived as our daughter being "open" was her just parroting issues that she...

Hello, I am here with difficult child who is soon to be 6. He has diagnosis' of Early Onset Bi-Polar (EOBP), ADHD, ODD, sensory processing disorder (SPD), Separation Anxiety, and celiac disease. He will choose to not eat for days, and literally starve himself. He has had a feeding tube until this last August and we are praying to keep it out. difficult child is...

Ok, now I need advice on how to get my stubborn difficult child to take the medication.... He is trialing Dexadrine, to rule out severe ADHD but he likely has Early Onset Bi-Polar (EOBP). I have tried crushing up the tablet and hiding it in milk or yogurt but he figured it out and refused to finish it. Then I found a great new...

This is my first time on here but I am coming here to get help dealing with my 5 year old we just found out about 3 months ago that he has ADHD and ODD and we have been running a uphill battle now for 2 years and we have now got an answer to why I feel like just running away from him all the...

Many of you already know that my son is in the psychiatric hospital right now. They are thinking of sending him home in the next day or two but they have still not put him on a mood stabilizer...which was one of the main reasons why I decided to put him in the psychiatric hospital in the first place. They raised his...

difficult child 2 has been reeeally squirrelly the past few days. No changes in medications, but he has gotten taller, so maybe we need to get his Depakote levels checked again... He blows into the house after school now like hurricane. He's LOUD. He's EXUBERANT. He's GIDDY. He's INTRUSIVE. He talks to...

I know that some of you here have dealt with this issue. difficult child is on Celexa (20 mg) and the psychiatrist wants him to start Risperdal (.25 mg) and he is refusing to take it. He says that it's the Celexa that is making him behave badly (because we put him on it in the first place because he was behaving...

We're on Spring Break right now. Our psychiatrist suggested we try reducing difficult child 2's Depakote ER for a few days to see if it helps improve the daily sedation he struggles with. Some days it's so bad he falls asleep in class. And although he's gone through tremendous growth in the past couple of...

I am fried here too. Went with the clinician and difficult child 1 to the psychiatrist appointment. I am starting to feel is might be me? Cos I have two difficult child seeing him and constantly, I mean CONSTANTLY he keeps on telling me it's my mental health letting me see all these negative things and nothing positive. I...

Hello everyone! It's been a long time since I've been here. I have run out of ideas.... and need some input from all you experts out there. difficult child, m, 7 yo: diagnosis'd with ADHD combined type and ODD 2 years ago. We have tried: Focalin Adderall Vyvanse Bright Spark (www.nativeremedies.com)...