Changes and Adjustments

It seems as if I am always making changes and adjustments in my life.  Usually the adjustments that are made are due to the changes that have occurred within my children lives. 
My Bi polar child John is experiencing a great deal of changes currently in his life.  I decided to have him re-evaluated; it never hurts to make sure everything is as it should be.  I was not currently happy with his doctor or therapist.

The re-evaluation was eye opening.  John is still diagnosed with early onset Bi polar.  The psychologist felt that John was on the wrong medication.  He was taking 3/4 tsp. of Amantadine in the morning, Intuniv at 5pm, and then .5 of Risperdal at night.  John was experiencing fatigue during school and very often fell asleep in class.

The new psychologist changed all his meds taking off the Amantadine, the Intuniv, and increasing the Risperdal .25 in morning, .5 at night.  The thought of changing his meds was terrifying to me for I did not want to return to the school calling each day to pick him up.  I just sat in the waiting room while he was talking to John almost in tears.

We did try the which though, you always have to hope for an improvement for your child and that was the reason I witched doctors to begin with.  The change in the meds did work I  have seen a very tired child go to be energetic which is a good change.  John's mood seems to be more stable too.  He has not had an aggressive mood swing that is full blown, they appear to be more manageable.

John has been on the Risperdal increase for approximately three weeks.  The doctor did add Clonidine to the mix last week which is helping as well.  The doctor ordered a blood test to check John's blood sugar.  Diabetes runs in our family and Risperdal in some cases can increase a child's blood sugar. 

The results of the blood test was that John is pre-diabetic. 
We are currently changing his diet and hopefully we can maintain his blood sugar at normal level.  The whole household decided that we all would change are diet for John does feel deprived or tempted to eat items that might raise his sugar.   I'm sure it won't hurt any of us to eat more healthy food anyway!

I hope the changes that occur in John's life continue to be positive.  I am concerned about the thought of him also becoming diabetic.  John has managed to inherit everything from my ancestors and his dad's ancestors.  I guess it is just something else we have to add to the list.  I am also  very thankful to God that he has helped us receive diagnoses early on before conditions become life threatening.