Guest guest Posted September 15, 2006 Report Share Posted September 15, 2006 I am pretty new here... I posted a couple weeks ago about my 13 yo dd with a pretty sudden onset of bad thoughts OC (wishing I was dead, wishing her sisters were dead, sexual thoughts, bad words, etc ) which started a few days after strep exposure. Her ped started her on antibiotics even though the culture was negative and after about 5 days things settled down. Her titers ( taken after the antibiotics were complete) both came back within " normal " range. So, I guess we are dealing with non-PANDAS OC here despite the coincidence. These days, she is still dealing with some bad thoughts...though nothing like what happened in August when this first started. She is struggling with some sexual thoughts. But mostly it is what she describes as rehearsing in her head what she is going to say before she says it? This isn't always. It is usually for conversations she is going to have with me when she wants to talk about " thoughts. " Also, she is having some anxiety that we never saw before. She described to me that in piano lessons yesterday that she suddenly " felt nervous and her heart was beating and she got really sweaty. " Fortunately she got through it. She is in the process of coming off Topamax (has been on for migraine for several years). However, the decrease in Topomax started after this began. Any thoughts about what we should do here? I am just feeling a little overwhelmed and sad. I am wondering how much of this is hormones and teenage weirdness and how much is OCD/anxiety? We are in Cincinnati. Anyone have experience with therapy here? Tamara Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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