Post by katiekat on Apr 3, 2008 7:58:23 GMT -5
It appears the medications are becoming ineffective. I think the dosage will need to be upped at the next appointment. I need to get through 1 more week before that happens. Things that had improved so much are back. The extreme hyperactivity is back full force. Running, jumping,sliding, and the falling that comes along with those things. I am not exaggerating when I say that he falls down (or up) the steps in the house at least 10 times a day. Constant, constant, constant talking. The need to seek attention has never been brought under control but it's getting even worse. This morning he was picking paper cups out of the bathroom trash, writing things on them and giving them to me. Now I always take the things he makes for me but today I said no, I do not want trash. Then he stands there and sulks because I do not want them and goes on and on about how he "made them." I have to draw the line somewhere-I am not touching other peoples used, trash-picked cups. He will just do anything to have an excuse to get some attention. Every day it is the same questions and comments. I could write down everything he says from morning til night because it never varies. The questions he asks are ridiculous too-things he really knows the answer to. At the last appt. the therapist said it is like he "dumbs himself down" to get attention. He will say every day "Is it summer or winter?" He has been asking this question every day for months and months. She told me that when he asks these type of questions just to say "what do think it is?" He always knows the answer but this has not stopped the asking. By the time he goes to bed at night my eardrums are bleeding. 
