elavil

difficult child has suffered such severe headaches for so long. It hurts to know I cannot help him. He has had every test possible. I refused the pediatricians request to go to a pediatric neurologist. Did that for two years. Did tests and put him on topomax for about two years. didn't help so he...

and I'm sure it's related to his GI issues. They took his temp in the office and no fever. He told his dad his pain was a 7/10 when husband collected him around 11:30 this morning. Came home and slept for about 90 minutes. Ate some tomato soup (with Miralax :) ). Looks like he's in a bit of...

difficult child 1 and I were out running errands today. We're in Walmart and he's perusing the toy aisle when I come up to him and he's got a pack of Pokemon cards in his hand and asks me if he can borrow two bucks. I'm taken aback because I know he gave me the last of his money to buy Wii points for him...

Yet another incident of lying to me by difficult child 1 this morning. He has been lying to me for who knows how long about lunch. I asked this morning if he has lunch money, to which he quickly replied "yes". I asked him to show me, since he has a history of automatically saying yes to anything that's...

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...

He is provocative, oppositional, loud, annoying, hostile when confronted, obnoxious, irritating... did I say annoying? :frowny: And oppositional? I don't know WHY my buttons are so easily pushed this morning, but difficult child 1 has been exceptionally oppositional and obnoxious this morning. Perhaps he...

Both difficult children are going back this morning for a follow-up with the psychiatrist. For difficult child 1, we are evaluating the Tegretol -- I think it's helping. I want to know if there's wiggle room for more improvements (hope I'm not chasing sunshine... I just want the best possible outcome). I also want to know if...

Over the past 3 years, difficult child 2 has tried Lexapro (caused headaches, feeling that something wasn't right), Prozac (couldn't sleep), Zoloft (suppressed her appetite, causing her to lose weight), Luvox (muscle twitches, impulsivity), and Paxil (2 days, raging). Some of her "side effects" like the...

difficult child 1 has a number of health issues on top of his ADHD and anxiety and some of his grades took a nosedive this past quarter, due in part to him and in part to my inability to micromanage him during husband's convalescence and the drama going on with difficult child 2's issues. So today husband and I met with the...

If we manage difficult child’s environment so much as to not allow any disappointing moments or any frustration then we have a mostly content child and no blowups. That would mean not telling him no, not telling him to do anything he doesn’t want to do, buying him poker chips for his online game when he...

psychiatrist increased Remeron to 30mg cause it was starting to peter out already - the sleep benefit was. 15mg didn't leave her with daytime fatigue. Do you think the 30mg will? She also wrote a PRN script for Doxapine 25mg for sleep. She said she could take it with the Remeron. Won't that be a...

We have pretty much run out of AD's to try - unless we want to try the tryciclics (sp). Nothing has helped much (Zoloft, Welbutrin, Celexa, Lexapro, etc), and Prozac made difficult child intensely depressed complete with suicidal ideation and, at one point, a note and a plan. We are currently doing a medication...

What have others here used it for? What did it help, what did it make worse?

hi... so i went to difficult child's pyschdoc today, to see if we can find another medication. We had to pull the lamictal last week due to the burn/rash that appeared. i went alone this time, so that him and i could have a more intelligent conversation, speaking very openly about the medications, approaches...

We get a phone call this morning to pick up difficult child 2 from school. He was asleep in class and they couldn't wake him. They had to carry him to the office and call the nurse in. He took two 20mg Adderall yesterday; one in the morning and one in the afternoon. He's not prescribed Adderall. easy child...

Hey all - I've posted before about issues with-my son and school, but I have a different question tonight. I am beginning to suspect my 7 year old is bipolar. I will spare you all the long, long story of his various diagnosis and medications, but suffice it to say that RIGHT NOW he is diagnosis ADHD, although...

difficult child 2 has been taking Lexapro for almost 2 months, now. We started her at 2.5mg because she has had side effects to all the SSRI's in the past. We thought maybe some of the side effects were due to her chronic illness coming out and not the SSRI's so we are trying again. She took 2.5 mg for a...

difficult child 1 is still picking at his upper arms, and now one of his knees has scabs on it from picking. Something jogged my memory about a medication he was taking up until the start of the summer which was right around when the skin picking took off. We dropped the Elavil (a tricyclic) he was taking for his...

Me: Does that mean you don't think it's anxiety or that you can't deal with having panic attacks all the time? difficult child: I can't deal with having panic attacks all the time. Me: So does that mean you want to try medications? difficult child: Yes. I can't do this all the time. Me: Are you sure? I really want you...

I haven't done an update on him in a while, so I thought I would. He's been back at home since shortly after Thanksgiving when he stole and used my medications (klonopin, vicodin, percocet). If you remember, he was so out of it that the principal had to carry him to the office and easy child had to go pick...