depakote

Okay, technically, it was for difficult child 2 since difficult child 1 had been pulled in last week because of his escalating beligerence at home, so he really didn't need to be there again so soon. And just when I thought difficult child 2 would be safe to take to the appointment since his fever was normal all morning and at...

Thats the unofficial findings of the psychiatric evaluation. I dont know anything about that diagnosis.

I just spoke to the psychiatrist about what to do with difficult child. The Celexa is abviously not taking care of the anxiety enough because we are still dealing with the temper tantrum and the screaming rages that have plagued us for years. He suggested keeping him at 20 mg of Celexa (dowm from 40) and adding...

Wee is off his rocker. Completely. He is entirely out of character, even for him. He is getting repeatedly stuck on things, he has no patience for little ones (normally he loves babies), he is just entirely not the same kid that we deal with on a daily basis. I see now why he didn't not...

Got the following email as I left for specials. "Complained of being tired between 9-9:30am. 10:30 a.m. refusals of work, crying, banging fists on desk, some screaming. Removed to safe room. Once in safe room (where he alone, by the way) the following tallies were taken: Hit wall=39...

I know some of the MS's contribute to weight issues, cognitive dulling/memory issues, and acne, all of which difficult child has problems with. Does anyone know of lithium/lithobid has any of these as a side effect? Depakote definitely did but he's been off that since last Fall.

I'm sorry for taking up so much bandwidth with my melodrama when you all have enough in your lives. Yesterday between school and leaving the house, difficult child scribbled with a sharpie on our new wood floors. Today after work, I researched how to clean it off, and took some nail polish to test it...

Wee difficult child saw the neuro on Monday. They are weaning him off the Depakote. I know his psychiatric isn't going to like this, with the bipolar diagnosis, but part of the reason they put him on the depakote way back when was because it was also a mood stabilizer and I have never seen any mood stabilizing qualities...

psychiatrist is going to write a letter so I'll have that to go along with the letter from therapist. Hopefully, psychiatrist will just keep diagnosis to BiPolar (BP) and adjustment disorder- we discussed it- I think he understood why it's important- mainly because that's the diagnosis he gave him that I went to court with last year and because...

difficult child and I saw the new psychiatrist today. It was awesome. They guy is good with difficult child and knows his stuff which makes me very happy. Anyway, if you guys have been reading my other posts, you know I am in a fight to get difficult child's school to give up their heavy-handed "show him who's boss" mentality in response...

Hi everyone, I used to visit this forum quite frequently, and now I'm back - years later making another "first post". Yes, it's been a bad day - a bad week, actually. Our youngest boy (age 9) has an autism spectrum disorder (Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD)/not otherwise specified), ADHD, apraxia of speech, and ODD-like behaviors as well...

My 14 year old son was diagnosed last year with Bipolar, ADHD, and ODD. We've been messing with medications for a year now, with the plan to get his moods stabilized first before worrying about his ability to focus. He was doing pretty good with a combination of depakote and abilify, so over the...

:highvoltage: For years Kanga has accused the other children of touching her inappropriately. The first time we freaked out, investigated, had therapist involved, etc. Only to have it determined that it hadn't happened. On the first night of Eeyore's placement with us, Kanga touched him...

Put him on Tenex. Again. The same drug we've tried twice that doesn't work. If he's not manic, it knocks him out cold in the smallest of doses. If he's manic, it does absolutely nothing, even at 8x the "knock out" dose. Right now, difficult child is awake 13-15 hours a day. He is having trouble...

I everyone, its been along while since I have been able to get on. difficult child 1 went to physic hospital in june stayed a week. Has been doing a lot better, the reason he went was that he tried to jump out of the school van cause he didnt want to go to school. He still has some problems but we are...

i've been here for a while now, i've seen so many parents go through it and would try to be supportive and say it'll be ok, and find the light at the end of the tunnel for them cause that's what we do here, power in numbers all that good stuff! Yet odd thing is i thought id' be here with difficult child...

good morning: bringing difficult child to meet new art/biofeedback therapist today if i can wake her. she was up again last night. it isnt' a dad transitional thing, that did make it worse because dad lays with-her. it's a "her" thing. She's been doing it for soo many mos. now i've forgotten. Our day's...

Our difficult child is 7. Current diagnosis is ADHD/ADD combined type with Mood Dis not otherwise specified. He takes Seroquel and Prozac and is in a therapeutic school program. Stimulants have never helped, only made things worse. He has always had some anxiety even though earlier doctors said he didn't. Last week difficult child was to go...

I got a call a half hour ago (9:30 am) that Jessie's MRI results are already in. The pediatrician. Dr. W, called me to say that the pediatrician neuro had already read the MRI. There is "nothing wrong" with her brain. They conclude it is anxiety. Dr. W was very adamant that it is NOT "all in her...

Last Friday, I signed up difficult child for football (parks and rec). He has been wanting to play since he was born. We said no for yrs because it's too rough. We finally decided he was old enough, shelled out big bucks (compared to LL baseball, there's no comparison). He was SO excited! He was trying on...