I'm too fat. I'm ugly. My legs are short!

[trintiybella]

My child spends a lot of time staring in mirror picking her body apart. She is super agitated. I guess this is an obsessive thoughts and I am thinking about starting small dose prozac again. We tried it in the past and it made her violent, but she is now on the antibiotics and more stable. If you know of anything else that helps, please tell me. Thanks!

Below is what she is currently on:

 

11AM

500MG Omegas

50mg Minocycline

800mg Bactrim

10ml Iron

70mg Milk Thistle

300mg Motrin

4000 UI D3

7PM

70mg Milk Thistle

50mg Fluconozle

50mg Minocycline

800mg Bactrim

9:30PM

1 Charcoal

11AM

3 Sm. Scoops D-Lactate

2mg. Melatonin

50mg Mag. Citrate

6mg. Seroquel

Edited November 3, 2013 by trintiybella

[PowPow]

I would be extremely hesitant to try prozac again. The reason is twofold:

# 1 kids with pans have been shown to do poorly with SSI medications

# 2 whatever Neuro transmitters are messed up in her body, if they did not respond prozac originally most likely will not now especially if they made her violent

[JoyBop]

I thought I put a response in here, but its gone. Forgive me if this is a duplicate.

 

I agree that trying PRozac again would not be a good idea. My DS had a similar but may worse reaction to Prozac that you mention. The next time around we tried a very low dose of Zoloft and it helped take the edge of but didnt really do much. He was on 12.5mg. We pushed it up to 25mg but after just one week I started to see similar reaction to what we saw on Prozac. He has remained on the half dose ever since.

 

We also have our son on Intunive, which I would suggest you ask your doctor about if you are interested in a medication to help with the agitation. It has been VERY helpful. Feel free to pm me if you would like more info. We also had him on Clonidine .1mg at night to help with sleep problems and night time agitation. We JUST discontinued it after his tonsillectomy a few days ago. Clonidine is a similar drug to Intunive and are not usually given together, but you could ask your doc about both to see if either one would be suitable for your daughter.

 

Do you also give Motrin? That has been by far the most helpful for us as far as agitation and rage. Nothing has helped much with the OCD. We do CBT but Im not convinced we have the right therapist.

 

I hope that was somehow helpful.

[Guest]

Sounds like body dysmorphic disorder. I've had it for over 12 years and been through almost all psychotropic meds, none helped. I still deal with the mirror stuff all the time.

 

I don't know what to say, I think a good psychologist has done me more good than any medication in this regards. But it does need to be addressed b/c first I had these thoughts, then at 18 I had full blown anorexia nervosa.

 

I would be hesitant with ssri's, zoloft has caused me to gain 30 lbs!!!!!!! That only exacerbates the thoughts and the problem.

 

There are medications approved for this though if you are going that route, but I'd only consult with a very knowledgeable psychiatrist or neurologist when choosing these meds, pcp's don't have a clue.

 

I think it's still something they don't quite understand. Why do people who are slim have these non-stop obsessive thoughts about their body? The rest of the world sees me as slim and I see PROBLEMS, OVER-WEIGHT. It's interesting when susannah cahalan got sick she started having these thoughts out of NOWHERE that last a few months, but with her treatment they went away..... something about that stuck in my mind. Why did they begin with her and how did they go away?

[EAMom]

Has she lost a significant amount of weight?

 

How old is she?

 

I would throat culture family members to make sure you don't have strep in the household.

 

BTW SSRI's may cause decreased growth...no studies (surprise!) were done after this one. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12090838

Edited November 6, 2013 by EAMom

[trintiybella]

She has had this distorted body image from the time she could speak. She use to pick teeny teeny mole off her body at 3 cause it was ugly. As she got bigger it got worse and worse. Everything about her body agitates her tremendously. If u look at her she freaks because she feels ugly. It's better with bactrim and minocycline buy still horrible!