depakote

Sooo...difficult child started back on a stimulant yesterday after about 5 weeks without and he is WIDE OPEN this morning, and has been since 4:30. By WIDE OPEN I mean a mile-a-minute-talking, making noises, running around the house, constant bugging us, bugging the dog, etc. acting like a nut. I can tell...

I just hate this. Manster got his 4th grade pictures back and he is just so beautiful. But this is the first year that I look at his pictures and he looks like a "fat kid". It's addiction related. He uses food to sooth his anxiety. I feel like it's my fault. I should have had a lock on the...

Manster has been almost manic the past few days. Not sleeping as much and more talkative, louder and mess making lol. I can't think of anything different except that he is on spring break. Maybe the change in routine? All I know is that he is exhausting me. Any thoughts? I think I'm...

Today, difficult child claims he didn't get to play long after lunch. Therefore, when the whistle blew to go inside, he didn't want to go. He ran from the para and threw rocks in objection. The para and recess aid got him inside, but not calm. He hit the door to the SpEd room several times, and they stuck...

About a week ago (in fact just before christmas) difficult child started cutting back on her sleep more and more. psychiatrist told us on monday to "let her sleep when she wants" which I have been "trying" not to do. She is going to bed at 9pm but not falling asleep until midnight or later. Last night when I went...

Does anyone know if lithobid or depakote makes acne worse?

I don't think I will ever get over the eeww factor of hypersexuality. Currently Kanga is "dating" one girl at the Residential Treatment Center (RTC) and one boy at school. She was caught naked in the showers with a different girl and is now obsessing about a different boy at school. At least 3 of the 4 are her age, her...

I have to go every three months to get Depakote and liver function blood draws done (Depakote is hard on the liver and I take a large dose of the stuff). It's no big deal. My only hangup is I have to watch the actual draw. The 'work areas' are seperated by sliding curtains. In the next...

difficult child 1 came home at lunch today feeling sick to his stomach (again)... it's the GI/Crohn's issues again. :( I put him back on the Miralax today as it tends to thin things out and he's been off it nearly a week. So I'm a little anxious to see where this is headed. difficult child 2 has been acting scattered...

I just wanted to give a big Thank you to everyone that responded to my post "I think we are in crisis". I felt so defeated and hopeless that day that I really needed support from parents that understand everything we are going through. husband also wants to start getting on here with me to read more...

I posted about this on Special Education to see how this might effect iep and now would like to get some opinions on whether or not you would do this. difficult child is on lithobid and this works as his first line mood stabilizer and takes care of mania and raging (at least we think it does to some degree). He's...

difficult child had appointment with therapist and psychiatrist today. We're going to raise the depkaote back, then add the AD back and try this again, now that difficult child is off the albuterol and allergies have calmed. psychiatrist said he understood why I stopped pursuing this plan while difficult child was on the albuterol. difficult child sees therapist again on...

Well, what a year. I dont know when I was last on the board. Here is a brief update: In oCtober, Sammy switched schools too complicated and long to get into now. The new school is very structured and only 11 kids in the class. The problem is that Sammy ahs started acting out in the school...

Yesterday I had the results from difficult child's neuropsychologist testing. It was very interesting. Basically, difficult child has a pretty low IQ, which is not what I expected to hear. I'd always figured that his struggles in school and home were mostly related to behavior, but it was because he was high intelligence that...

We will be meeting to modify difficult children behavior intervention plan tomorrow due to continued outbursts at school (no aggression just raging, arguing and non-compliance). The unfortunate thing is that a lot of the behaviors are his response to the school' classroom management 'system'. difficult child will get a...

Discharge plan: individual and family therapy, monitor medications. difficult child didn't want to come home, husband said, "I tried to talk to him but he's not being nice to me and I was starting to get mad. Nothing's going to change." He's going to school tomorrow. There was another kid from his school in the...

I just realized this morning that I had a voicemail from difficult child's psychiatrist. She has to work in-patient on Monday and has to reschedule but the soonest she can see us is mid-May. Noooo. Look I know I'm cranky but lets look at why... difficult child is NOT sleeping well I'm not sleeping well between difficult child waking up 3x...

I need to vent (it's my first time here). My heart is breaking for my 6 year old son. He was diagnosed with ADHD and ODD last year,....after trying to get one since he was 18months. I'm so frustrated that we keep getting doctors (I'm so sick of them) who dismiss me, like I don't know what I'm...

After two years of issues and parent meetings at school, my 13 year old son was diagnosed with bipolar and ADHD in December. For some time I had it in the back of my mind that he could be bipolar, since my husband is also bipolar, but I didn't automatically want to jump to that conclusion. Now...

Absolute shot in the dark. This is the guy that I am switching too since I seriously dislike the ent who did my sinus surgery...I went to him the day after I got the evaluation report, and on a whim, took the report with me. He offered to see difficult child. *** So we went today. *** The appointment was at 2. We...