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Poo smearing and other fun this weekend

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nf1morethanjustlumpsandbumps · 13/01/2014 10:45

DS6, NF1, ASD and ADHD has had a terrible weekend. Main issue being poo smearing, this time it happened twice, one in the bathroom and one on my living rooms sofa. I just don't know what to do anymore I'm tired worn out and sick to the stomach of the constant smell of poo in our house. We can't see CAMHS as we had to cancel the last appointment as he had his MRI that day to check on his brain tumours and according to them that's not a good enough reason and we've been put to the bottom of the list with a guideline of another wait of a year.

At the moment he is on 5mg of Dexedrine daily and its just not working anymore we've tried everything from bribery to taking his possessions off him. It reached a head this morning when he hid his shoes as he didn't want to go to school (no issues in school and in fact won pupil of the week last week). I can't drive and had to pay for a taxi as his school bus had long left before we found suitable shoes for school. I shouted at him and now I feel so guilty, i'm just so tired and worn out my DH is at work and I understand he needs to go we've no choice as I've had to give my career up and previously I was the main wage earner.

So sorry I think I just need to rant more than anything else, there is no one else to help out and mornings are just such a struggle getting him dressed and out for our walk to the bus.

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claw2 · 13/01/2014 10:58

Ive had a bad week with ds and he poo smears too.

Are you sure everything is fine in school? (ds won 'star of the week' last week too! although he still struggles in school, doesn't want to go and i struggle to get him out of the door)

CAMHS were pretty useless, however the NAS were very helpful with giving advice and a written plan to try and improve on behaviour.

CwtchesAndCuddles · 13/01/2014 12:39

No advice to give but another one here fed up with scrubbing shit off the walls!!! Ds (ASD) has been smearing a lot recently and I have no idea why..............

Pinkglow · 13/01/2014 14:23

I could have written this. For some reason the poo smearing has gotten worse this past week (DS is 5) DH really lost it and had to go outside for a good rant otherwise he was going to blow his top. Have to go home tonight and finish Vax-ing the carpet in our rented flat.

claw2 · 13/01/2014 16:54

If its any help to you guys, advice from NAS and CAMHS is to totally ignore poo smearing (as hard as that is!) and to keep a diary to try and establish the triggers for it ie sensory, attention, stress, anxiety etc.

Ive been doing so for weeks and ignoring it hasn't improved it at all, so not for attention. Its not sensory as ds is usually a 'messy/sticky' hands avoider. So anxiety and stress due to school seems to be the trigger (which I knew anyhow) just helps to keep a record of it, when asking school for more support)

Manxie73 · 13/01/2014 20:40

Just wanted to say that it does get better. DS ASD/ADHD used to smear poo, until the age of about 6, I remember the last time it happened, he watched me clean it up whilst i was heavily pregnant with ds3 and sobbing at my wits end.Now he's 8 and when he has a nosebleed he smears blood instead!

nf1morethanjustlumpsandbumps · 14/01/2014 18:34

Thank you for your responses, I let things get to me and completely lost it yesterday. I've been in touch with school today and they have confirmed there are no issues.

Stress of some sort is the factor he discharged MRI last week but that's a usual for us and he doesn't know any different.

Scraping poo out of the plug hole of the bathroom sink was just an all time low feeling hormonal at the minute as not getting on with my coil so on the brink Not to mention my new washing machine flooded the kitchen and Manxie yy to the blood, we have nosebleeds caused by the lesions first time I went into his room after a bad night I thought a massacre had taken place and was almost scared to look at the bed.

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