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Originally Posted by InMyMindsSight
BlueInanna, I'm glad you care enough to find help for him. I'm sorry for what you and your son have been going through.  Is this his first med? I ask because I wish in the past I had asked for the 'first line of treatment', and tried all those before they jumped straight to the meds they are pushed to prescribe the most. I feel like that is often the first med given by docs that don't care. I think it can be found on the net, or make them show you. It's not right to treat people like they are stupid. Once I was given one that made me very suicidal, and I knew it was the med, they didn't care and kept upping it, 3 times, and it'd get worse every time, till i said i stopped taking it. Then they said, omg you can get a rash and die if you just stop that, its dangerous for you to be on since you did that! And took me off of it. I doubt they even took the time to look up from their paper. I hope you are able to find a good doc and meds that work well for him soon. -Keeping you in my thoughts. |
I'm trying to remember all the meds we've tried :/ it's been going on for 5 years now. The dx has gone from depression, to adhd, to mood disorder, to bipolar disorder. I am glad that he is at the age now where it's obviously bipolar, no more dancing around the notion.
So, no, not his first med, but the first real "bipolar" med. He'd also tried Geodon, but the pdoc in the hospital took him off that and just upped the seroquel dosage. He'd been taking it for about a year at a lower dosage along with klonopin and clonodine.
My hope is that we can find him some medicine that will provide him relief. If he doesn't need to suffer like he is with panic attacks, depression, manic rages. He so often breaks things or says the most hurtful things and then feels horrible about it. I want him to be able to complete high school, and go on to college and have a happy life, and right now it's just putting out fires every day with him, and trying to keep him calm, and trying to keep him safe because he'll do really risky behaviors.
And he's already trying to self-medicate with illegal drugs, like impulsive whatever he can get his hands on. I'd rather help him find a legal rx or combo. He likes the klonopin and clonodine and seroquel at a lower dosage.
Since we're in between insurance and doctors, i'm just lowering his seroquel - or allowing him to. So he's taking about 75mg at night, along with his 1 clonodine and 2 klonopins allowed per day. And then we'll consider adjusting things when he can get in with the county pdoc. Unfortunately the waiting time is long, so I will need to get the pdoc from the hospital visit to refill his 'good' meds. We have 1-2 weeks left. I think she will refill if i say, "oh yes the seroquesl is great, thanks so much". (ughhh)
Which meds worked for you by the way? Have you tried or heard of Depakote? It sounds like it might be a good one.
thank you and hugs I need this support so bad and appreciate you all very much
