need advice about DD 10

[fightingmom]

  On 4/3/2012 at 10:06 PM, bulldog24 said:

Dr b moved our appt up and told me ibuprofen.

 

When is your appt? And, can I just say out loud I'm very happy to hear him suggest ibuprofen? We are in the same boat right now!

[bulldog24]

the 16th, how about you??

[fightingmom]

12th! Bummer

[bulldog24]

Boo! would have loved to meet you

[fightingmom]

  On 4/4/2012 at 10:11 AM, bulldog24 said:

Boo! would have loved to meet you

 

Same!! I think we are probably close enough to try to get together at some point!

[fightingmom]

You hanging in there? It's getting closer!

[bulldog24]

DD lots of headaches

 

I am going to bet she has lyme....

 

 

DS 6 - He is pretty close to 100% but too scared to say it ya know..

 

How are things there>?

[fightingmom]

Glad your DS is on an upswing at least, I won't jinx by saying anything else.

 

We get lots of headaches here, too. Specifically after he has a big rage, he always winds down into a really bad headache that night and next morning.

 

DS is very up and down. One minute he's "hi mom" the next minute he's yelling at me. If I don't say the exact thing he wants to here, I'm getting it. And, god forbid I change something. Poured a glass of milk with breakfast the other day and he flipped about that. Changed the cat litter I bought, flipped about "changing everything", changed the toothpaste, he screamed!! (wound up liking it better, too)

 

We've seen upswings in school. For a week, he's great, getting in all missed assignments and working hard on projects. Then last week he wasn't doing anything again and I'm getting emails from teacher. It's that saw pattern for sure, but overall I'm avoiding major rages and meltdowns with advil. I need a better solution...and I honestly don't think the augmentin is doing anything.

[norcalmom]

Maybe its a side effect from the oral steroids - aren't headaches, aggression and mood swings frequent side effects and very common for most people that take steroids?

[fightingmom]

  On 4/11/2012 at 12:48 PM, norcalmom said:

Maybe its a side effect from the oral steroids - aren't headaches, aggression and mood swings frequent side effects and very common for most people that take steroids?

 

If I recall correctly, speaking for bulldog, too - we both took our kids off the steroids after a few days due to being overemotional, etc. -- so I don't think that has anything to do with it in our case, plus we've always had these symptoms and he's only been on steroids once. Actually, once we stopped taking them the week or two after was absolutely AMAZING and my son was doing great. Then they came back with a vengeance which I suspect is after the effect of the steroids wore off.