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For years difficult child suffers from bad headaches. He has Advil, excedrin and Midrin at school. Last year he was going to the office daily for medication. End of the year I had to take him to ER, he thought he was dying, couldn't lift his head off the pillow. Only one or two headaches all summer...

difficult child 1, my 13yo, has had a needle phobia since as far as I can remember (probably those darned kindergarten shots that did him in!) Well, I have to brag, because this kid blew me away last week when he went in for the blood draw he gets every few months and has done for the past two years. Not...

at things I shouldn't laugh at. difficult child 2 bit a staff member at Residential Treatment Center (RTC). Now in no is this funny however after asking if they were pressing charges (this is something we discussed today at the staffing that needed to start happening) we were told they hadn't yet but that the staff member was a bit...

Really not sure where to begin without completely boring all of you. I stumbled on to this site while trying to figure out why our 13 y o was becoming worse to discipline, talk to, be in the same room with, etc. I am in desperate need of advice, maybe even comfort from other parents/moms who...

Hi, most of you know me around here talking about my difficult child, well my next son, he's 6, has really been displaying some odd odd behavior, well odd to me. I want to give you a little quick history 3/06 , when he was in Kindergarten last year, the school really pushed me to test him for ADHD (he was...

Well of course psychiatrist called us back when we were gone!!! A week and a half after I had called her 3 times... Then her office called to cancel our apt next week and could only get us in today, I took it! psychiatrist apologized for not calling us back and basically said she is SO overwhelmed right now...

Well we all slept last night... K woke up at 8:30- she fell asleep around 9:30pm so she got a lot of sleep... she had night terrors so it wasn't great sleep but she was alseep none the less. She is awake and angry now... still hypomanic, racing, on edge. Very ODD. Which I thought was gone from...

Not to be a thread jacker or nothing....but I am hopping on to Weeping Willow's thread... Yes K is still manic... she is still not sleeping. psychiatrist called on Wed night and he said just stop the Geodon... we had titrated back down to 40 mg. He said just stop. That night she was up again seeing...

Well actually I am old member but been a long time since I have been here. I believe it was since my ds was 9 and daughter was 6. Now my ds is 13 and daughter is 10. How many Wisconsin members here??? Well over the past few years we had total of 11 inpatients for my ds but his last one was May 2006. He...

Hi everyone. I can't begin to tell you how happy I am to have found this site! I was google searching ODD because I am in desperate need of some guidance. I am engaged to a wonderful man, and have a beautiful three year old little boy. My fiance has an 8 year old boy who has ODD. I am at my...

Janet I just wanted to post and let you know that I will be thinking of you tomorrow, I know it will be very very difficult for you. I am so sorry that you have to do this. I dont know what else to say. I will Keep Ant in my thoughts and pray that this journey in his life will lead him to a...

difficult child seems hellbent on sabatoging any progress he has made lately. Yesterday, I walked in my door at lunchtime - didn't even have time to take off my boots - when the phone rang. God love caller I.D. - at least I had time to take a deep breath before I answered and received the request to...

Hello everyone. I'm still very new at this, but already I've found so much support on this site...I'm grateful every day that I found this forum. Right now, I've just about had it and I need advice. Maybe I just need to rant...I'm really not sure anymore. Maybe you can tell me. difficult child has been in...

It's been a while, we have been on vacation. During the vacation some issues came up that are new and I am not quite sure how to handle it. Anxiety level really shoots through the roof. He admitted he doesn't like feeling scared all the time. Tried talking to him, but doesn't help his fears...

After almost 17 very good, almost miraculous months, the realization that the medicine is no longer working for Dylan has hit us head on. He is hypomanic. Eyes bugging. Loud. The giddy, "I can't help it" laugh. It's beyond annoying. Truthfully, I saw what I thought was mania before, but within...

Hello everyone, It has been a few weeks since I last posted. Suffice it to say that it has been pretty much one constant crisis with my 17 yr old daughter. Her m.o. over the past few months has been to violate curfew, leave the house and refuse to answer her phone to tell me where she is, and...

Just spent the evening in the ER. About 6:45 pm, he came to me with drool bubbles and his mouth at an odd angle. I thought he was choking on something. He got his drink, and it all ran out and he was jumping up and down, not able to close his mouth. I looked and could see nothing and his...

Hi everybody. Haven't posted in many months but I have a specific situation I'm concerned about, namely, my oldest, difficult child 2, is with a new psychiatrist who has a prettty good reputation among other docs and other professionals I've met through my divorce. She wanted badly to go off all her medications...

Talked to M's new psychiatric hospital psychiatrist tonight by phone for about 1/2 hr to fill him in a little more and answer any questions he had and then listen to his medication suggestions for M. He wants to start M on an SSRI to treat anxiety. He does not think M is ADHD and I agreed with him. Of course, he doesn't...

Been trying to figure out the last 2 days what to post about difficult child being released from psychiatric hospital tomorrow and still don't have much to say that may make sense, but here goes. Our meeting at the hospital on Friday didn't really accomplish a whole lot, what did get accomplished was, the family based...