Med Change

[anon4now]

So DS started to deterioate last month. Just falling back on his self harm, violent obessesional thoughts, wanting to run away, literally crying over spilt milk all day, getting physical with kids in class, throwing books around, disrespecting teachers...stuff we dealt with all his childhood.

So I brought him to the dr. We're going to check his lithium levels to make sure they didn't drop below therapuetic but we just tested about 2 months ago, so we highly doubt that is it. I talked to the doctor about increasing his abilify or zoloft, but he said "that might work, but in another 10 months, we'll just have to do it again." So he took him off, and started him on prozac and seroquel.

Well, the first morning he started the prozac, there was a huge difference. He actually started to "over-compensate" his behavior. For instance, we're working on him talking to dad more. So he started talking his ear off, and inserting himself in adult conversations. I was worried the prozac pushed him into a manic state.

That night we started the seroquel, and it made him drowsy and he went right to sleep. So that was good news too. And after a few days we started the seroquel in the AM too. It looks like the seroquel is balancing the prozac a little. I may be way off base there, but that's just my opinion.

He's still cycling about every 4 days though - hitting a big depression. It's like he'll have 3 great days and we try to keep him flying off the positive experiences, but the 4th day he crashes. Can't handle anything, and then back to "normal" after some sleep. I just don't know what to do with him on that 4th day. Yesterday was one of those days, and he said he was sticking a pencil in his hand so it would come out the other side of his skin during school, and he started screaming bloody murder when dad asked him to lock the back door.

I feel like, ok, I'll take 1 out of 4 days instead of 24/7. But still, that one day just kills me. And it gets the family's nerves up and it takes us a few days to relax, and it's right back on again.

Well, I've ranted on enough. I have to get to work. I've been stalling for like an hour now.

Thanks for listening.

A4N

[katiekat]

Sorry you're going through this Anon. We have been pretty fortunate so far with Sean's meds. The Abilify and Trileptal are still working out for him. That's certainly not to say that things are going great around here...
But the meds have done wonders for the most concerning issues-the self injuring, insomnia, crying that lasted for hours, gruesome nightmares, and violence toward others. He is also able to focus much better in school. The disrespect however has been out of control lately.
I hope you get his meds all straightened out quickly and that he gets back on track. Rant away-that's what were here for!

[charliegirl]

I wonder what the cycling like that is all about. I would have thought the meds would level him out all the time. I'll be praying that its something that needs to build up in his system and then you will see his behavior more even.