lamictal

Since I wrote my first post, my son has improved. We think the Lamitcal increase is finally kicking in. As of this week he's started to extend his day by about 45 minutes and he's agreed that next week he will extend even longer. He looks better. He's waking up better. He's leaving school in a...

DS12's depression keeps getting worse. We tried Zoloft and then Celexa after a Zoloft fail. With both the Zoloft and Celexa we saw huge improvements and then major backslides. We then ruled out SSRIs and tried Lamictal. As we were titrating up there was almost a switch overnight at 150 and I...

The psychiatric at the Residential Treatment Center (RTC) was asked to evaluate my son for possible bipolar based on the program coordinator's observations over the past three months, and the psychiatric wants to try depakote. I'm aware that this is a drug used for seizure control but know nothing about it in terms of treating bipolar...

My 8 year old son was just diagnosed with bipolar part i, mixed/odd..i'm not sure what to do now?? He was tested then diagnosed with adhd by another doctor back in 2008 so he has been on medications for it. He was still having problems at home and school after going thru several doctors one finally...

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...

My daughters psychiatrist started her on 25 mg and gradually increased the dose by 25 until she reached her current dose of 300 mgs per day.. Subsequent reading on the matter has also indicated that that is the usual procedure with lamectal. My daughters new psychiatric wants to increase her dosage...

Alright. Here it is, in black and white. His diagnosis's are the following: Aspergers Syndrom, ADD inattentive type, mood disorder not otherwise specified, PTSD, ODD, and Anxiety. He had come out of a 5 week hospitalization where they weaned him off Seroquel onto Risperdahl. While her was in the psychiatric hospital, he went from a mens...

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...

I am ready to spit nails. difficult child 2 was released today on 1 hour's notice. I was apparently the ONLY person not surprised by this. I was not surprised because I had finally spoken to the inpatient psychiatrist the night before and made it clear I did not agree with her about anything. Surprise, surprise...

Well I must admit I really hoped I wouldn't have to come back here. AS much as I loved you all, I was happy to finally be able to move forward as life seemed to finally be getting better. WRONG. Let me first off say I'm sorry for such a long post, but I need to get this off my chest. difficult child#1 is...

hi does anyone know of a secondary medication that can be added to combat weight loss from any of the ap's that cause it? so, if we use seroquel and that works well, yet weight gain is a huge issue is there another medication that can be added to combat that and the sugar levels? I've been doing some...

Ok, Q is not huge, but he is now 5 feet and weighed 107 at the doctor today (had to go he said his heart hurt, I think it is heartburn but not sure so had to check). He is averaging 1.5 to 2 lbs per week. I have to get his height from d/c at hospital and the last two doctor appts to see if...

It's so easy to be lulled into a false sense of normalcy. medications are working, everyone's holding it together pretty well. You start to think, "Hey, maybe my kid doesn't really need to be on all these medications! Maybe this was all just a bad dream afterall!" On Friday, difficult child 2 didn't get his medications at...

hey sooo yup me again pain in the butt. so difficult child did full shut down this am. on me my throat hurts, i'm not eating anymore, dont' tell them. i'm going on liquid diet in new york etc. yup real nightmare indeed. so at end of day i spoke to the head dr there therapist that's been working with...

difficult child's morning: *goes straight to computer when he isn't suppose to be on it. *upset with easy child so tried to squirt ketchup on her. *still upset with easy child took a screw driver and went at her. *I took away the screwdriver. *He was upset with me and tried to move me by wrapping his arms around me. *Took...

Hi all. I'm new here and looking for help.....help please! I'm at my wits end. My son is 11 yrs old. He has epilepsy and is currently seeing a neurologist, psychologist and psychiatrist. He's on several different medications. Diazapam, Lamictal, Trileptol. Anyway, we're trying to discern what is 'bad'...

Met today for the second time with the Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW). She still does not paint a pretty picture. Says the son has so much rage and anger, and is definitely ODD with depression. She said if things do not change for him, by the time he reaches adulthood there is no doubt he will end up in jail from...

I've posted before about difficult child 2's tendency to sleep a lot. He went to bed at 9pm last night and he's still sleeping (it's 12:30pm now). I woke him at 9am today to give him his morning Depakote, and I have to do it again in a minute for his afternoon Seroquel dose. Part of his excessive...

Thought I would do a quick date on difficult child since I realized I never gave one after his psychiatrist weekend (at that point I was so upset with easy child's grades I forgot to post about difficult child) and had posted how manic and off he had been lately. At the appointment. we decided to try one last thing at home. difficult child's psychiatrist said...