I'm new to the group

[Guest guest]

Hi,

I'm new to the group. I recently read the book " What

To do When YOur Child has OCD " . In the book it talked

about this on line support system and it sounded

great.

My daughter is 9 years old. She was diagnosed with OCD

in 2/05. We began therapy and medication at that time.

During the first few months she made great strides. We

are still far from where we were then, but, progress

slowed and we've had regression and new behaviors. Her

therapist does use exposure resistence therapy and

cognitive behavior training with her. We've also been

in OT since December for sensory issues.

We started out on Zoloft. We went up to 100mg, but she

started skin picking. We went to 75 and added

Resperidal. She had side effects. We went off the

Resperidal and onto Abilify. She stayed on Abilify

about 4-5 months. It really helped the first month or

two, but then we saw regression and lots of weight

gain. She started obsessing over her weight. She was

also diagnosed with ADD and PDD/NOS during this time.

For about a month and a half we were on Abilify 5mg,

Zoloft 75mg and Focalin XR 5 mg. We went off Abilify

and took just Zoloft and Focalin. The Focalin seemed

to make her jumpy and more agitated. We went off and

back to only Zoloft. Symptoms continued to worsen and

we had lots of wiping off all the time on siblings,

friends, parents, walls, whenever she gets nervous she

wipes off on everything. In June the doctor added

Requip to the Zoloft. After 5 weeks, there was no

difference. We discontinued Requip and lowered Zoloft

to 50 mg(since that's what we'd been at when we saw

the most progress). Behaviors continued. We saw our

psychiatrist on Friday and she wants to start my

daughter on Geodon. We have to have an EKG first since

it can cause the heart to slow down.

I'm scared and frustrated and feeling like it is never

going to get better.

Has anyone had similar experiences????

Have other children in the group taken Geodon???

Sorry this is so long.

Thanks

Darletta

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