We're back into our school routine and things seem to be going well.
We have our therapy appointments on Tuesdays after school. The tics seem to be doing a lot better and we decided that we need to start working with Liam's time with his therapist on some other issues. For the past two weeks in therapy we've been talking to our therapist about impulse control and how we can work on that with Liam. She said that one thing that we may want to do is talk to our neurologist about meds. Big deep breath. My immediate reaction was "NONONONONONO" but I said "well, we have a neurologist appointment next week, we'll talk to him about it."
For the entire week, I've been searching my soul on how I feel about this. Vascilating. Talked to Brian, my husband. His immediate reaction without being open at all was "absolutely not". Talked to friends. One friend said "well, you need to just be open to putting it out there and listening and seeing what the doctor has to say. Then you'll at least have your options."
Yesterday morning I went into the neurologists office expecting the worst, expecting to be pushed into putting my child on stimulants. Playing some crazy balancing act with having to push up the tic meds to balance the side effects of the ADD meds. We talked for awhile about my concerns about Liam's moodiness. The neurologist thought that it was perfectly normal developmentally and was not concerned. We then moved on to Liam's impulsivity. He asked both of us a lot of questions and said that he felt as though Liam should only be medicated for his impulsivity if it was interfering with school. He also said that he hadn't seen Liam tic at all throughout the whole appointment and was really happy with how his HRT was coming along. He said that he thought if Liam keeps doing as well with his HRT that we should talk to his therapist about taking him off of the clonodine next summer.
Huge relief.
