What do you do with a child who refuses treatment?

[Joan Pandas Mom]

Praying for you too rockytop and all the families here. It seems like everywhere we turn, we hit a wall.

[Luna2]

Whew we know this one too. So sorry you are dealing with it. Many very good suggestions. Our dd is 13 and the thing she desires most is facebook, friends and freedom. These are the goodies that she "wins" taking medicine. We also found that getting her anxiety somewhat under control has been helpful to getting the meds swallowed down. We use clonodine patch 0.1 mg/d for some of the anxiety sxs (unfortunately she has developed a rash to the adhesive). She liked this because she didn't have to swallow anything. We also found using Nerve tonic cell salts (from health food store) sometimes helped and are sugar pills dissoved under the tongue. She is currently on zoloft 50 mg/d; aug ES 1 1/2 tsp/d.; ibuprofen liquid 3 tsp./d. We have found that the ibuprofen was a good starter because she did not feel like she was chronically sick taking it because lots of people take it for headache, etc. It seemed to calm things down to allow us to get more meds in her. My toughts are with you.