seroquel

Hey everyone. difficult child's little brother was referred to the psychiatric due to his hyperactivity. So about 2 weeks ago we tried Stattera. First week I noticed that he seemed calmer. He wasn't running from couch to couch to stuffed chair literally diving head first, and then doing it over again. The...

Can anyone tell me about Lithium? Today my son had an appointment with his psychiatrist and he was totally himself during the appointment. His psychiatrist got to see him in true form today! MH was argumentative and disrespectful to me. He “corrected” me and spoke to me as if he is my equal and not my son...

OK, I know difficult child doesn't want to take it, and I do understand that. But... This is what I am concerned about... twice this weekend, once as she was falling asleep Friday night, and then again to day when she woke up from a nap, she was talking gibberish. The first time it happened, I assumed she...

I got a call from the school at 2 pm. Its the school therapist. She has difficult child 1 in her office and says he has something to tell me. (Of course I'm thinking he did something bad.) He gets on and it sounds like he is about to cry. He tells me that X hit him on the head on Friday. He is supposed to go to...

Hello. I'm new here. My husband and I have a 6 year old daughter. We adopted her through the foster care system. She came to live with us at 4 months old, but went into foster care directly at birth. Her birth parents are both diagnosed schizophrenic. Birth mother is also bipolar. Birth...

Well, to make a really long story sort of short, a year ago today difficult child was released from her first psychiatric hospital stay for brandishing a knife at herself and her stepdad, and threatening to kill herself because the dogs interrupted her youtube viewing. Things seem to have only gotten worse. She may not...

difficult child 2 cannot concentrate, cannot sit still, cannot focus tonight on his homework. I asked him if he took his medications at lunch and he says he did. But he's acting like he didn't, and he shouts at me "Mom! I'm BUZZING!" (our term for hypomanic symptoms like racing thoughts). Tomorrow morning he...

I am so glad I found this site today during a search for advice and guidance on the Internet. I am in search of and in need of advice related to my daughter. She has awful outburst that are most of the time out of my control. Let's just say I have my hands full. I've tried everything possible...

I've just joined this group and am thrilled to find others going through many of the same things our family has. As an introduction, I'd like to give a brief recount of our son's life thus far. "E" as we call him is now 5 years old. He was difficult from birth....developmentally delayed...

My autistic son of 17 years was percribed Risperdal which he took for 3 months. During that time he balooned in weight and wanted to sleep all the time. We told his doctor that because we did not see enough benefits and my sons self esteem was very low, we wanted him to come off it. He has been...

Just curious about what I'm seeing in difficult child 2 today. For anyone who read my latter post in the thread about ripping the classmate's jacket... difficult child 2 had a lot of energy after school today. He was really happy and upbeat. While waiting to pick up difficult child 1 in front of school, he asked to get out of...

I'm curious if anyone here has experienced increased dreaming and/or nightmares while on a mood stabilizer... especially Trileptal. Since going on this drug, husband periodically has some really violent dreams. He shouts in his sleep, he kicks (a few times he's gotten me good), and he once fell...

difficult child's lithium has been increased to 300 mg in the a.m. and 300 in the p.m. It makes a huge difference to have him on lithium, and the increases are working well (no welts like we had with-the Seroquel). He is so much more articulate at the therapist's office. He hates to sit in front, which is part...

So I posted earlier about difficult child not sleeping well. Now? He is amped up, irritable, driven, and hyper. Moving from one thing to the next. The irritability leaves at times, but comes back or has been today. He sees therapist on Tuesday and psychiatrist on Thursday. It is nice as since they both work out of...

I am new here, so I'll try not to make this too long. Here's our background. We have a 10 year old non verbal autistic child. During the summer he started having horrible fits of rage all day long. We finally decided to take him to a psychiatric dr. He was being incredibly aggressive at school...

Miss KT has been complaining recently of tics, so her doctor took her off the Risperdal two days ago. I think I'll be needing a helmet and flak jacket. Cleveland, here I come! Anything I should be watching for with this medication change?

Little update We are bumping up the Lamictal to 75mg and then if that goes smoothly up to 100mg. Keeping the Focalin where it is, she only takes it in the a.m. to get through the early part of the day. Who cares if she can't sit still or focus the rest of the day! LOL, JK We are actually...

Jess has been rx'd compazine, to be taken with aleve and caffeine, because she has been battling migraines every day for over 2 weeks. Her neuro rx'd them. She is to take this every hours even if she is not sick to her stomach or her head feels better. The headache is here every day but will...

so, difficult child has put on alot of weight due to seroquel and I feel badly for her. Nothing is fitting the right way, i had to go to the mall to get a few more things, stretch pants, sweats. Jeans aren't making it due to her stomach whichis huge at this piont. I'm kinda disgusted, it's the way it is...

hi!! :) So, difficult child has tics from her seroquel. I've noticed in her hands, she keeps twitching them seperately, it's hard to explain what she does. It's almost constant now though. started small and now it's quite often. doctor says dont make big deal about it, just let's see if it stops. It's...