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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My child was similar: we had added med after med to try to get more control over symptoms (ADHD, anxiety, mood) and weren't sure what was actually helping. We tried to taper off one or the other but then she would struggle and we'd stop. Then she went to a camp with insufficient oversight over meds and [b]she forgot to take any of it for 10 days. Not doctor recommended, but it did give us the clean start we needed. After about a month off everything[/b], we added back what we needed one med at a time -- slowly -- and she's now doing better than ever on three meds (two of the four she was on before and one new one).[/quote]

That would certainly help with the summer timing issue.   :lol:

How did she do during all of the transitions and month off? Was she struggling until you got to the new combo? [/quote]

She did great at camp and for that month, I think likely because the meds have long half lives and so weren't totally out of her system (except for the stimulant, but ADHD is the least of her problems). Then, when we were on vacation, she had a massive meltdown that included threats of self harm -- we restarted the mood stabilizer immediately. A few weeks later when school started, we restarted the stimulant, and a little after that, tried a new anti-anxiety med (different from the two she had previously been on).

It could have been very bad -- and that one meltdown was scary and make me very thankful to have a very accessible psychiatrist -- but I'm not at all sorry how it ended up.[/quote]

So sorry to hear about the scary meltdown, but it sounds like things worked out.

Did she go back to the same mood stabilizer and stimulant? The only change the was anti-anxiety med? It's so hard for us to figure out the meds. 
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Same mood stabilizer (miracle med!), different stimulant (but within the same class), and different class/category of anti-anxiety meds. And different school, which has also made a big difference. She is more stable, on fewer medications, than she had been for years.[/quote]

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