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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...

but I won't. difficult child 2 shared some interesting information with me this afternoon. Apparently, difficult child 2 has been forgetting to go to the office at lunch to take his afternoon Seroquel XR dose. Apparently, the health clerk is getting tired of paging difficult child 2 to come to the office when he forgets to go...

Hello, I am new here and trying to memorize all of you terminology. This seems like a wonderful sight and makes me feel so unalone already. My difficult child (son) is 8y/o. When he was 3 I started realizing he was a little different than his peers. I was reading a mag. article about asperg. (never...

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...

difficult child 2 has been reeeally squirrelly the past few days. No changes in medications, but he has gotten taller, so maybe we need to get his Depakote levels checked again... He blows into the house after school now like hurricane. He's LOUD. He's EXUBERANT. He's GIDDY. He's INTRUSIVE. He talks to...

The last time difficult child 2 forgot his evening medications, he ended up on a hypomanic tear around the house, pulling an all-nighter and even baking brownies (for me, he said) at 5am. I learned all this when I called him from the airport on my way back from Cleveland last summer (husband had been in bed with the flu...

We're on Spring Break right now. Our psychiatrist suggested we try reducing difficult child 2's Depakote ER for a few days to see if it helps improve the daily sedation he struggles with. Some days it's so bad he falls asleep in class. And although he's gone through tremendous growth in the past couple of...

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...

For those with difficult children that struggle with their weight... how is it going? MWM, how is Sonic doing? Manster's still doing about the same. He has increased his activity quite a bit (tennis, gym) but he still has trouble making good (sugar) decisions when he is away from home. Unfortunately his...

Hi, I haven't updated our situation in a while...As of my last update, difficult child (7 years old) was doing very well on Trileptal. Well, that lasted for about 10 weeks and came crashing down a couple of weeks ago. Long story short...difficult child was hypomanic for a few days two weeks ago, then crashed for a...

I really, really, really, really hope that lowering his Depakote last week wasn't a mistake (psychiatrist said it was too high based on labs, plus he was becoming more hyperactive again). He's been a lot more touchy and prone to outbursts the past few nights, and now this. He hasn't missed any medications...

I just am chuckling at myself over this. I completely forgot to write down the difficult children' psychiatrist appointment for this Friday, and it just so happens that difficult child 1 really needs to see the psychiatrist because he's back to picking the skin on his upper arms. :sick: And his GI issues are flaring again. So maybe it's...

Little Bear has been doing better than he ever has with his new medication change, except one problem cropped up again late last week and it has me worried. His rages have shortened to about 15min and are more infrequent then they had been. However, he is getting more violent during his rages...

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...

Despite my ordering refills for difficult child 2's Depakote ER and Seroquel XR nearly two weeks ago, we seem to have about RUN OUT thanks to a psychiatrist's office that didn't respond to the pharmacy promptly. The Depakote is supposed to get here any day now (I just love three-day weekends when I'm...

difficult child 2 takes Namenda in the morning before school. I reminded him to go take it today as he was getting ready. Normally we use a pill box with everything measured out for the week, but lately he's been fine with just taking what he needs on his own. He just needs the prompt to go do it at the...

Hi Y'all, I finally was able to pick up the medical records and found out that my difficult child has bipolar and ODD. At this point, they're dragging their feet it seems and acting as if counseling alone will do the trick. Not so! She had 8 days of just "Blehhhh", for lack of a better word, brattiness...

Due to medication, difficult child is gaining weight at an alarming rate. Her psychiatrist is adjusting her medications to try to help with the appetite issue while still helping her but she has gained almost 10lbs in under 2 months. I had bought new clothes for her three weeks ago and the pants won't snap! I've cut all...

Hello everyone, Well it is official today, we now have 2 individuals with bipolar living under the same roof!!! After a major melt down at school yesterday, Levi was suspend for the day. His therapist came to the school and saw him in full battle mode for the first time and got him an...