Two Fold Approach to Bringing Down the Mania

I had to pick Caroline up from school about an hour and a half after she got there because she was simply too agitated to be there. We have been seeing an escalation in her anger toward the boys at school. She keeps saying that it is their ceaseless noise and perverted remarks that are making her so mad, but she is definitely still "up" there. And she has been sassy at home, unduly obsessed with her novel, and having trouble sleeping. Luckily, the psychiatrist was able to squeeze her in this morning, and we decided to address the mania with two med adjustments. One, since we didn't give her the 48 hour Amantadine holiday last weekend like we should have, we will do that immediately. She does get very agitated if she is on Amantadine too long without a break. Our bad. Secondly, instead of increasing any of her present meds, we are going to put her on the natural progesterone replacement pills (Progon from NeuroScience) because her progesterone is low enough that her estrogen is much too high, and her testosterone is too high. This would explain the hard to control acne, her very heavy periods, and her irritable mood. We will try this and go back in a month. Then we will try to CalmPRT (NeuroScience again) at that time to reduce the cortisol she is putting out (lab work showed this). We are doing one supplement addition at a time so we know EXACTLY what is causing what reaction, unlike we did a few months ago. I hope these two steps will help her back to "normal." We probably won't send her to school tomorrow. I am SO glad her school is so patient and understanding about her absences!! There are very few schools that would give her this much leeway.