Depression-decreasing EMP-making worse????
Ok yesterday we started decreasing the EMP to 4 three times per day and increased the Aminos to 5 twice a day. Brandon is such a rapid metabolizer. Today he is like extremely irritable. Could he be reacting from the decrease EMP already? Should we have increased it instead? I am so confused and the fact that Brandon metabolizes things like ten times faster than the average person, it is just more confusing. He was sick with a cold for only half the day yesterday. Dh and I both had it and it lasted for 4 days, but for some reason Brandon was able to recover within a day. Also, he can fight his Night Rest (melatonin and gaba stuff) and force himself to stay up, which I caught him doing a couple nights ago. I do not get why he does this bc it causes him so many issues during the day. IDK why stuff does not just knock him out. We see pdoc on Wednesday. Will post all the tests that have been done to get some feedback on what else we should do.
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Kim 34 Co-Mod Military with Katie and Heather
brandonsmom_1996@msn.com
Army wife and BSW student
PLMS, Insomnia, Severe D-IBS, Special diet
Iron and Mirapex for PLMS, Lunesta, Zyrtec, SAMe
Brandon 15, BP 1, ADHD, Schizoaffective?, PDD?, IgG allergic gluten, casein, soy, eggs, peanuts
EMPower Plus 5 caps TID, AminoPowerPlus 4 BID, Vitamin D 10,000 IU/day, Garlic, Choline and protein shakes prn, Synthroid, Melatonin 6-12 mg
8th grade (held back) homeschooled-Meridell Achievement Center 4/28- 9/25
Chris, 34 dh since 9/10, Army
Cheeto the cat: Hyperthyroidism (radioactive iodine 2/8), Separation Anxiety, and Chronic UTIs, rx diet Mystic: The princess of the house and HATES Brandon
Jackson: Lab, DOB 1/13/11, training to be psychiatric service dog eventually
Fort Bragg, NC
FROM TBMF: Do not start, stop, or change medications or other treatments for yourself or your child based on what you read on this Website or elsewhere on the Internet.
Kim,
A few thoughts. First we often had very quick reactions to Empower dose changes. Our son also metabolizes medications rather quickly. As I mentioned Brandon might need more than 3 doses a day if this is the case. Our son needs four doses of Empower to cover him throughout the day. We basically figured this out by charting when we saw more irritability and noting a pattern.
Viruses can sometimes consume the Empower, resulting in somebody needing more for a brief period of time. We had this as well. But because our son was so sensitive to dose changes we often would just tolerate the irritability and hold the Empower dose the same and eventually our son would reset. It is less of an issue now that he has been on the Empower for a while.
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Jistac
Mother of 3 (23,20,17) with a variety of mental health issues. Been involved with using Empower as a treatment since 2003
How many four times per day? I have not noticed anything as far as certain times a day, usually evening is the roughest, but he does get his dinner dose and most of our kids struggle in the evening. Dh thinks that Brandon may be starting to head to mania. Last night he sat still for only about 30 minutes playing his favorite game Monoploy, then he was all over the place. He can sit and play that for hours normally. I have not seen any other signs tho. We are having our typical clean day issues, not wanting to do it, but he finally started, I think.
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Kim 34 Co-Mod Military with Katie and Heather
brandonsmom_1996@msn.com
Army wife and BSW student
PLMS, Insomnia, Severe D-IBS, Special diet
Iron and Mirapex for PLMS, Lunesta, Zyrtec, SAMe
Brandon 15, BP 1, ADHD, Schizoaffective?, PDD?, IgG allergic gluten, casein, soy, eggs, peanuts
EMPower Plus 5 caps TID, AminoPowerPlus 4 BID, Vitamin D 10,000 IU/day, Garlic, Choline and protein shakes prn, Synthroid, Melatonin 6-12 mg
8th grade (held back) homeschooled-Meridell Achievement Center 4/28- 9/25
Chris, 34 dh since 9/10, Army
Cheeto the cat: Hyperthyroidism (radioactive iodine 2/8), Separation Anxiety, and Chronic UTIs, rx diet Mystic: The princess of the house and HATES Brandon
Jackson: Lab, DOB 1/13/11, training to be psychiatric service dog eventually
Fort Bragg, NC
FROM TBMF: Do not start, stop, or change medications or other treatments for yourself or your child based on what you read on this Website or elsewhere on the Internet.
Kim,
FYI my son is 6'2" and about 180 lbs. He takes somewhere between 6 and 7 pills four times a day. Remember he also takes 1 mg of LIthium which each dose. We noticed that dinner time was often a struggle for our son. He would often get irritated at dinner and so our pdoc is the one who suggested after we went over when our son was taking his doses that we add a fourth dose in the afternoon. We did and much to our surprise dinners got easier. Our son no longer got super irritated with his younger brother at the table and found it easier to be with the family.--
Jistac
Mother of 3 (23,20,17) with a variety of mental health issues. Been involved with using Empower as a treatment since 2003