Sorry going to be long.
Ds had his appointment today with young minds matter. He see a psychiatrist who specialises in adhd. Disaster start to finish, wouldn’t let the dr weigh him / do his height / do his blood pressure, trashed the room, wrote all over the wall / drs note pad in green highlighter pen, set the air conditioning at really warm temperature and the dr couldn’t change it back / pulled all the face masks out of a box / squirted hand sanitizer all over the table. He was counting in 5’s really loudly so we literally couldn’t hear each other speak, I’m having to manage him during this whilst trying to talk to the dr all flustered.
The dr was 😳😳 at ds asking me if he’s always like this. Yes hence why where here!! He kept saying sorry I can’t hear myself think. Sorry can you repeat that etc etc. Ds please don’t touch that, ds please stop touching that. He practically kicked us out of his room and made us wait in the waiting room whilst he did his prescriptions where ds just kept drinking out the water fountain with his mouth under the tap rather than using a cup and repeatedly pressing the bell at the reception desk she had to take the bell off, all these other parents looking at me like shit, so embarrassing to have no control over my child.
He asked me why I had not got ds an autism diagnosis, I said he had one years ago!! He said oh sorry that’s not anywhere in his notes.
Asked if he had been diagnosed as having a learning disability and I said well on his last lot of paperwork from his consultant who we see for autism it was on that but she had not directly told me iyswim, then he asked if he had any other diagnosis’ I said no, just adhd & autism so he was writing loads of notes for some reason as though he thought he had something else aswell. No idea what he was getting at, I couldn’t hear myself think so didn’t ask him to elaborate.
He’s prescribed ds methylphenidate, 2.5mg morning, 2.5mg lunch, 2.5mg tea time, he said in mild & moderate cases it’s twice per day for school days only but for ds he wants him to take 3 x doses a day x 7 days a week. It’s a bloody tablet that ds has to swallow whole. I explained this is going to be really difficult and he was like well he has to start on this short acting one before we went to once a day long acting one and this one he’s got only comes in tablet form.
I’m starting ds on it Saturday morning but honestly don’t know how I will get it down him, plus he’s going to have to have a dose at school every day and they won’t be patient like I will.
He’s prescribed Promethezine for his sleep too I don’t know too much about that so will have to google, i don’t think I’ll start that yet too much to quick and all that..
I’ve got to ring YMM in a week and let them know how it goes and they can increase his adhd meds as and when.