Anyone have any advice\experience??? Please help!

December 9, 2011

Hi there.....

I have 5 children, all with some form of OCD, depression, and anxiety

disorders... But my youngest, 15 now, has the Ocd, anxiety, and some form of a

mood disorder by far worse than the others... We've had her on every SSRI there

is. All make her more aggressive as soon as we get to a level where it starts to

help with her OCD. Her mood is outrageous, to the point of fit throwing,

screaming, going from sweet to aggresive...Mind you, this is not just in her

teen years, her moods have always been very prominent, just so must worse the

last couple of years. We've added Risperdal (helped her mood, and her ocd, but

started not working so we upped the dose which caused side effects, and then

movements,tics, when she fell asleep... Dr wanted to try Lamictal, but I read up

on it and it scared me because of the side effects (rash, and possibly rare

meningitis) so I asked for another choice. Mind you, I'm not thrilled with her

Dr. because instead of addressing my concerns, she actually became rude and said

" well then, what do YOU want to do??? " I am now in the midst of changing to a

different clinic (this hasn't been the first time the Dr has treated us like

this, and is not concerned my daughter won't speak to her directly at all) but

in the meantime, we tried Abilify. It made my Daughters OCD and anxiety almost

unbearable at 1mg... Sigh

We now go back one more time on Monday, (We can't get switched till next year)

Does anyone have symptoms close to my daughters and have any ideas of things

that might help with mood and OCD? Shes on Lexapro 10mg, Xanax 0.25 once a day,

and Trazadone to sleep.She's very petite 5'2 and 90lbs.

I feel as if I'm going to have to go into the Drs with what I want to try next

if its at all like our last Drs appt, and this is ridiculous.

Am I wrong to be so afraid of the Lamictal?

Any advice would be so appreciated ...I don't want my daughter to suffer with

not trying anything just because this Dr is angry at me!

SuzyQsoblue

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