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Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Brain Fog
Unfortunately, Caroline seems to be dealing with an onset of major brain fog in the last few days. Can't think of what the cause may be as nothing has changed in her med mix and she is sleeping fine. This fog is really affecting her school work and it isn't distractability like ADHD, it is more of a slowness of thought processes--more than usual. I so wish she didn't have to take such high doses of Seroquel and Trileptal, which can be cognitively dulling anyhow. But she is stable, and "normal," so we dare not touch anything. Very frustrating to try to homeschool her when she is like this. She stares at Spanish and Algebra like she has never seen them before. Hopefully this will pass very soon. We have a lot to finish before then end of May and her state testing!
My son has this dulling too. It's intermittent, but was so much worse when he was on Risperdal. But, I totally understand that when they're stable that's all that really matters and unfortunately that dulling is a side effect of atypicals. Hang in there! If your C is like my C, it comes and goes and some days he "gets it" and other days he doesn't.
ReplyDeleteThat was always my dilemma... at what price is normal.
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