New psychiatrist for my daughter.

[momto3]

I have posted about my daughter's bipolar before. Her latest psychiatrist was fantastic when her problems became evident a couple of years ago. Lately, he has been very distant. It has been 8 months since we have actually been in his office. If I call, it may take up to two days for him to call back. Even when we are in crisis.

Her meds are not working any more. She has become increasing violent and emotionally abusive. We had our first visit to the psych hospital 2 weeks ago. I did a search on the meds she is taking. Turns out, she is on an extremely high dose of geodon. Actually, her dose is 2X the highest dose recommended for adults. She is 12. What the hell??? I am kicking myself pretty hard for not looking into her drugs further. I am a scientist and should know better.

I think we have found a new place. They provide psychiatric care as well as therapy. Something we have not had before. But, my biggest concern is getting her off this drug. Of course that means starting the drug trial all over again. Unfortunately, we have already been through 6 other drugs that had some pretty serious side effects. Geodon was the miracle drug. There are only so many available that we may have to go back and deal with the side effects.

I hate this. It is destroying our family.