Sunday, October 13 my son and I were diagnosed with Step. He was started on a 10 day treatment of Cephalexin.
Friday, October 18th things started to get tough with his behavior. My son is normally is normally an incredibly sweet kid who gets along great with his peers. But on Friday he had a total meltdown that resulted in him screaming at all of his friends. Since then we've gotten three notes home from his his teachers about his behavior. He is in 5th grade and has absolutely *never* had a note home before.
I don't paint an overly rosy picture. He has had some academic problems in school in the past -- especially with writing -- and possibly has ADHD but I've never wanted to medicate him, nor have his teachers ever suggested it.
Last week, we had a beginning-of-the year conference with his teacher and she said that a lot of the writing difficulties she'd seen in the past had really improved and that she thought he was doing great. Today, she sent me an email saying we should get start the process of getting a 504 plan for him. The slide has been that dramatic in one week to the day.
He's also developed a very serious fear of wolves. (There aren't any wolves where we live.)
He's still his same sweet self most of the time. But I'm very, very concerned about him and I don't know what to do. He doesn't have any real tics or OCD, however, so I don't know if it is P.A.N.D.A.S. exactly.
