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Hi everyone, my name is Shauna and I just signed up to the group a few days

ago. First let me say that my heart goes out to all of you dealing with this

disorder and others. I have two kids ages 11 and 9 and my 11 year old is the

one that was most recently having issues that caused me to seek out more

information on this disorder. I am also concerned about my daughter

developing this because of a few things she does but I will try to focus on

my son for now. He has always been a little " quirky " and has ADHD which he

is on Adderall XR for. He's on a low dose of 10 mg. When I say he was always

" quirky " some of the things he used to do would be to rip little pieces of

paper up at school and then put them in his pockets. He'd also collect weird

objects like erasers or twisties. He was fascinated with Magnetix and could

play with those for a long time. He was obsessed with Pokemon for the

longest time. He has done well in school academically since going on the

meds in 3rd grade but socially he doesn't make a lot of friends. He does

have a best friend that he has known since he was a baby. He was a neighbor

and even though we've both made some moves within the area they were able to

maintain that relationship and usually get together every other weekend or

so.

So to get to my concern...about a month ago we went to the doctor for my

sons ADHD med check. I told his pediatrician that I was concerned my son may

have OCD because recently he was starting to count his steps (he admitted to

us when confronted about why he was walking funny). He was also picking his

lips and making them bleed a little. The Dr. said the picking could be a

side effect from the Adderall but the counting was definitely not. He said

if it's not affecting his life too much then it sounds like it is minor and

not to worry too much about it right now.

Then about two weeks go by and my son out of no where started with other

habits. Every time he went to a different room he would have to do 4 little

quick steps. He started doing these little weird hand movements where he had

to shake each hand in the air 4 times. Then at the dinner table he had to

tap his fork 4 times on the plate before he would eat.

I called his Dr. back and he said that it did sound like we should have him

evaluated and gave us a few recommendations. I scheduled an appointment for

the end of March. But now here is the kicker....his symptoms have stopped!

We think it may have been related to a few things. First the stress of

school (he just started Middle school this year and also moved this past

summer so new school area and new kids). Also his best friend said he was

going to come over a few weeks ago and spend the night but then at the last

minute couldn't. Then he said the next day he could play but then had a big

report for school he had to work on. Of course my son was very disappointed.

I think he thought that his friend didn't like him anymore. Well...this past

weekend they finally got to play and his friend spent the night. Since then

he has been fine and realizes that his friend still thinks of him as his

best bud LOL. My husband and I commented to him that we've noticed he hasn't

been doing his counting and he said that he was able to control it better

now.

Should I keep the appointment or cancel? I'm afraid that if we cancel then

it will start up again.

Thanks for any input,

Shauna