Re: What a week

March 2, 2008

What a week indeed!!! Ok, I'm tired just reading your post. I do

have to head off to bed, but wanted to send you a BIG HUG!!!

Can't believe what the doctor said about your daughter's toe (can be

so helpful, not), just what a kid with ocd needs to hear.... I would

want to kill your husband too, based on what he is saying and doing

(just being supportive, don't really know him). So easy to parent

away from home and all that.... Doesn't sound like an approach that

would help keep anxiety down anyway.

A good cry is often a good thing,a release, cleansing. I usually

have mine in the shower, maybe for that reason, cleansing...

I hope you get all the meds sorted out. You certainly have your

hands full. Hope this week is better!

More hugs!

Barb

>

> We went to see Lacey's primary care doc on Tuesday to follow up on

> the staph infection in her foot and she said she didn't like the

way

> it looked. Thought there might be something vascular wrong and

> wanted me to take her to a sports medicine doc because of being a

> dancer. We thought the problem with the foot was over. She had

just

> started back to dance. She also told me I have a bulging disk

that's

> pressing on a nerve root and wants me to see a neurosurgeon to see

if

> I need surgery (I'm sure I won't). I guess the back deal was the

> straw that broke the camel's back. The next day we were supposed

to

> see the new psych doc for formal diagnosis of ocd. We were supposed

> to see the sleep specialist the next day to find out if she had

> narcolepsy or sleep apnea or what. I cried and cried. Called my

> best friend and had her pray for me and calmed down. I guess

> sometimes you just need a good cry.

>

> We went to the psych dr. appointment the next morning and he was

> wonderful. He did say she had ocd and is going to arrange for a

> therapist who works with adolescents with ocd with cbt. He also

> talked to her about meds and they agreed to try zoloft.

>

> Feeling like things were going pretty well but psych told us not to

> give her the vyvanse she had been taking to stay awake as it could

> exacerbate (sp?) ocd. The sleep doc said she did have narcolepsy

> which my daughter is really in denial about and told her to take

> provigil instead of vyvanse. We tried it today and I couldn't get

> her awake for 2-3 hours and she fell asleep again about 5 pm (I had

> only finally gotten her up at 11:30 am.

>

> My husband has been out of town all week on business and talked to

a

> friend of his about Lacey and was giving me all these directions

> about how to tell her I was just going to give her a 0 if she

didn't

> stop studying for a test when I said (she obsesses over tests). He

> is basically telling me to just give her 0's if she doesn't do

> something when I say. He talks to her and then she goes into one

of

> her frozen states where she just stares into space. We lost

another

> whole day of school. I wanted to kill him. I'm starting to get

> really discouraged as I thought we had one problem under control

with

> the vyvanse and they've taken that away. What a week. Oh, I

forgot

> to say, when the prim. doc told us about her foot I asked her what

> she meant about something vascular being wrong and she saidn she

> didn't " think " she would lose her toe. Saying this to a

dancer.....

> and this is a great doc so I was really alarmed but couldn't let

> Lacey see that.

>

> Oh and the sleep doc told her not to take the zoloft until she had

> started the provigil because he didn't want her starting two meds

at

> once. I am so tirrrrrrred.......Bren

>

March 3, 2008

Thanks so much for responding.....Last week nearly did me in. I am hoping for a

better week this time. At least the diagnoses are in....Still haven't had a

call from the psychiatrist about who to take her to for therapy.......Bren

barb wrote: What a week indeed!!! Ok, I'm

tired just reading your post. I do