Guest guest Posted November 14, 2004 Report Share Posted November 14, 2004 > she gets that " uncomfortable feeling " when people > say things in a way she doesn't like. Does anyone else's child do > this? She's also come up with a new compulsion to mimic my, my > husband's, and her siblings' words a certain way if they bother > her. It's driving us crazy, and really makes her appear " crazy. " > , Ava does this and it drives me crazy. I hate it. When she was younger she used to even do it to teachers, though now that she's almost 17 she stops herself most of the time. I always saw the compulsion to mimic as a kind of Tourette thing. No matter. I have never been able to stop her form doing it. So I have no advice, I'm merely commiserating. Dana in NC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 14, 2004 Report Share Posted November 14, 2004 Hi , One of my other kids () went thru some OCD months at a preschool age and had to have me say the " right thing " or either I wasn't saying it the exact way he wanted. Who knows, he was so young but, yes, drove me a bit insane! It seemed to go along with some perfectionism things he had going on. His behaviors luckily fizzled out after a few months. Anyway, at that time I knew it was OCD but really hadn't read up on it so far as treatment. But since your daughter is 10.5 and she knows that this is part of her OCD, is she willing to work on it at all, like the mimicking? , my present OCD child, 15, is also on Celexa. He's been on it a bit over a year. We got him up to 40mg for the first few months and then since increased it up to 50mg, which he is still taking. He's a tall, skinny kid, was maybe around 100 lbs, at least 90-some, when he started on it. I actually don't know that weight has a lot to do with dosage, unless you're very young. It usually takes a high dosage, as you know, to treat OCD. I'll let the more experienced parents - we've only been on this one medication - offer suggestions on the medication since your daughter's been on the higher dosage for a few weeks. If she'd just increased it, I'd say wait it out a bit to see if the increased behaviors subsided. We got up to 60mg but I saw no further benefit so we just went back down to the 50mg since it does make him pretty tired, the only real side effect for him. Now, OCD is still " there " for him, but things are very manageable and OCD isn't interfering with things as it was early on. We used inositol the first 2-3 years. The studies say for adults up to 18grams. We got up to around 14 grams for and varied from 10-14 over time. We would just mix the powder in Kool-Aid, as inositol is supposedly somewhat sweet tasting so it blended well. I used to joke I was probably the only mom who made her son drink Kool- Aid for breakfast! If you are thinking of just adding inositol to augment the Celexa, then of course you want to have a lower dose. I think if it was me, I'd start with maybe 2 grams for maybe the first week or so, then 3 for a few days....and go to 4grams for a month's trial, but I'm the cautious type. An article by Dr. Penzel says they figure a 40lb child can go up to 6 grams maximum for augmenting an SSRI. I'm just one who's afraid my child will boost things up a bit more than studies show as I'm a bit sensitive to a lot of meds. Link to article: http://www.homestead.com/westsuffolkpsych/Inositol_and_OCD.html has a " just right " part of OCD also. He said everything he did was to keep something bad from happening to him and he also had to get a " just right " feeling. Boy, trying to get that " just right " feeling could drag out for hours! Well, hope some of this helped. Lots of empathy for you anyway! > > My daughter, 10 1/2, has had OCD in various forms since she was > 4. She's been on Celexa since March 2002, and only recently since > we switched to a new psychiatrist has she had her dose increased to > 25 mg. We had gone up as high as 30, but it seemed to make her > anxious. Her OCD seems to be getting worse--more loud meltdowns > that she hasn't had since she was 6 or 7. We just got Dr. Chansky's > book, which is amazing, and we have identified that her most Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 14, 2004 Report Share Posted November 14, 2004 Hi , One of my other kids () went thru some OCD months at a preschool age and had to have me say the " right thing " or either I wasn't saying it the exact way he wanted. Who knows, he was so young but, yes, drove me a bit insane! It seemed to go along with some perfectionism things he had going on. His behaviors luckily fizzled out after a few months. Anyway, at that time I knew it was OCD but really hadn't read up on it so far as treatment. But since your daughter is 10.5 and she knows that this is part of her OCD, is she willing to work on it at all, like the mimicking? , my present OCD child, 15, is also on Celexa. He's been on it a bit over a year. We got him up to 40mg for the first few months and then since increased it up to 50mg, which he is still taking. He's a tall, skinny kid, was maybe around 100 lbs, at least 90-some, when he started on it. I actually don't know that weight has a lot to do with dosage, unless you're very young. It usually takes a high dosage, as you know, to treat OCD. I'll let the more experienced parents - we've only been on this one medication - offer suggestions on the medication since your daughter's been on the higher dosage for a few weeks. If she'd just increased it, I'd say wait it out a bit to see if the increased behaviors subsided. We got up to 60mg but I saw no further benefit so we just went back down to the 50mg since it does make him pretty tired, the only real side effect for him. Now, OCD is still " there " for him, but things are very manageable and OCD isn't interfering with things as it was early on. We used inositol the first 2-3 years. The studies say for adults up to 18grams. We got up to around 14 grams for and varied from 10-14 over time. We would just mix the powder in Kool-Aid, as inositol is supposedly somewhat sweet tasting so it blended well. I used to joke I was probably the only mom who made her son drink Kool- Aid for breakfast! If you are thinking of just adding inositol to augment the Celexa, then of course you want to have a lower dose. I think if it was me, I'd start with maybe 2 grams for maybe the first week or so, then 3 for a few days....and go to 4grams for a month's trial, but I'm the cautious type. An article by Dr. Penzel says they figure a 40lb child can go up to 6 grams maximum for augmenting an SSRI. I'm just one who's afraid my child will boost things up a bit more than studies show as I'm a bit sensitive to a lot of meds. Link to article: http://www.homestead.com/westsuffolkpsych/Inositol_and_OCD.html has a " just right " part of OCD also. He said everything he did was to keep something bad from happening to him and he also had to get a " just right " feeling. Boy, trying to get that " just right " feeling could drag out for hours! Well, hope some of this helped. Lots of empathy for you anyway! > > My daughter, 10 1/2, has had OCD in various forms since she was > 4. She's been on Celexa since March 2002, and only recently since > we switched to a new psychiatrist has she had her dose increased to > 25 mg. We had gone up as high as 30, but it seemed to make her > anxious. Her OCD seems to be getting worse--more loud meltdowns > that she hasn't had since she was 6 or 7. We just got Dr. Chansky's > book, which is amazing, and we have identified that her most Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 14, 2004 Report Share Posted November 14, 2004 Hi , One of my other kids () went thru some OCD months at a preschool age and had to have me say the " right thing " or either I wasn't saying it the exact way he wanted. Who knows, he was so young but, yes, drove me a bit insane! It seemed to go along with some perfectionism things he had going on. His behaviors luckily fizzled out after a few months. Anyway, at that time I knew it was OCD but really hadn't read up on it so far as treatment. But since your daughter is 10.5 and she knows that this is part of her OCD, is she willing to work on it at all, like the mimicking? , my present OCD child, 15, is also on Celexa. He's been on it a bit over a year. We got him up to 40mg for the first few months and then since increased it up to 50mg, which he is still taking. He's a tall, skinny kid, was maybe around 100 lbs, at least 90-some, when he started on it. I actually don't know that weight has a lot to do with dosage, unless you're very young. It usually takes a high dosage, as you know, to treat OCD. I'll let the more experienced parents - we've only been on this one medication - offer suggestions on the medication since your daughter's been on the higher dosage for a few weeks. If she'd just increased it, I'd say wait it out a bit to see if the increased behaviors subsided. We got up to 60mg but I saw no further benefit so we just went back down to the 50mg since it does make him pretty tired, the only real side effect for him. Now, OCD is still " there " for him, but things are very manageable and OCD isn't interfering with things as it was early on. We used inositol the first 2-3 years. The studies say for adults up to 18grams. We got up to around 14 grams for and varied from 10-14 over time. We would just mix the powder in Kool-Aid, as inositol is supposedly somewhat sweet tasting so it blended well. I used to joke I was probably the only mom who made her son drink Kool- Aid for breakfast! If you are thinking of just adding inositol to augment the Celexa, then of course you want to have a lower dose. I think if it was me, I'd start with maybe 2 grams for maybe the first week or so, then 3 for a few days....and go to 4grams for a month's trial, but I'm the cautious type. An article by Dr. Penzel says they figure a 40lb child can go up to 6 grams maximum for augmenting an SSRI. I'm just one who's afraid my child will boost things up a bit more than studies show as I'm a bit sensitive to a lot of meds. Link to article: http://www.homestead.com/westsuffolkpsych/Inositol_and_OCD.html has a " just right " part of OCD also. He said everything he did was to keep something bad from happening to him and he also had to get a " just right " feeling. Boy, trying to get that " just right " feeling could drag out for hours! Well, hope some of this helped. Lots of empathy for you anyway! > > My daughter, 10 1/2, has had OCD in various forms since she was > 4. She's been on Celexa since March 2002, and only recently since > we switched to a new psychiatrist has she had her dose increased to > 25 mg. We had gone up as high as 30, but it seemed to make her > anxious. Her OCD seems to be getting worse--more loud meltdowns > that she hasn't had since she was 6 or 7. We just got Dr. Chansky's > book, which is amazing, and we have identified that her most Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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