My daughter is 14 and was diagnosed bipolar in June when she was hospitalized for suicidal thoughts, she was started on depakote and zoloft, and now shes back in the hosp. for depression and suicidal tendencies once again.
Her dr. has increased her zoloft from 50mg a day to 100 but its having no affect, so hes thinking of changing her to prozac, which we havent given our consent for yet.
I would like to know of anyone who has a child on an anti depressant or anyone at all, who has experienced and knows of a anti depressant that might help her, shes also on trazadone because of sleep problems, which now leave her tired and drug out all the time
To answer your question, whether anyone has a young child in the family etc... that has depression? I have to say yes. My 16 year old niece suffers from depression and has had several suicidal thoughts. Presently she takes 20mg. of Prozac and it seems to be doing the trick, with few or no side-effects. I am very familiar with depression and bi-polar manic depression, because I have two members of the family with depression. Depakote is a good medication for depression, however it can have a tendency to put weight on, and also your daughter should have a liver function test each month to make sure that the depakote levels are not too high for her age weight etc... I am sure the doctor probably told you these things however. Also Trazadone, yes can make you sleepy. My father seems a little spaced out on it. He takes it before he goes to sleep along with Ativan. He currently is on Zyprexa and Lexapro. He takes the Zyprexa for manic depression. The Lexapro so far has not taken effect yet, but he has only been on it a week or so. He was on zoloft for a year and was taking up to 400mg. and between you and me I thinki it did more harm than good. Now he is off of it.
I do have a great deal of background when it comes to depression and pharmacology. Between my niece, wife and father who has been battling chronic depression for years; I feel like I sometimes play the doctor or therapist between them all, if you know what I mean?. If you would like my advice, talk to her physician about perscribing prozac 20mg.; it seems to be doing the trick for my niece. And it has been around for a while, and has very few side effects. Hope I have been helpfull. If you need any more feedback please feel free to write me. Take care.
To answer your question, whether anyone has a young child in the family etc... that has depression? I have to say yes. My 16 year old niece suffers from depression and has had several suicidal thoughts. Presently she takes 20mg. of Prozac and it seems to be doing the trick, with few or no side-effects. I am very familiar with depression and bi-polar manic depression, because I have two members of the family with depression. Depakote is a good medication for depression, however it can have a tendency to put weight on, and also your daughter should have a liver function test each month to make sure that the depakote levels are not too high for her age weight etc... I am sure the doctor probably told you these things however. Also Trazadone, yes can make you sleepy. My father seems a little spaced out on it. He takes it before he goes to sleep along with Ativan. He currently is on Zyprexa and Lexapro. He takes the Zyprexa for manic depression. The Lexapro so far has not taken effect yet, but he has only been on it a week or so. He was on zoloft for a year and was taking up to 400mg. and between you and me I thinki it did more harm than good. Now he is off of it.
I do have a great deal of background when it comes to depression and pharmacology. Between my niece, wife and father who has been battling chronic depression for years; I feel like I sometimes play the doctor or therapist between them all, if you know what I mean?. If you would like my advice, talk to her physician about perscribing prozac 20mg.; it seems to be doing the trick for my niece. And it has been around for a while, and has very few side effects. Hope I have been helpfull. If you need any more feedback please feel free to write me. Take care.
To answer your question, whether anyone has a young child in the family etc... that has depression? I have to say yes. My 16 year old niece suffers from depression and has had several suicidal thoughts. Presently she takes 20mg. of Prozac and it seems to be doing the trick, with few or no side-effects. I am very familiar with depression and bi-polar manic depression, because I have two members of the family with depression. Depakote is a good medication for depression, however it can have a tendency to put weight on, and also your daughter should have a liver function test each month to make sure that the depakote levels are not too high for her age weight etc... I am sure the doctor probably told you these things however. Also Trazadone, yes can make you sleepy. My father seems a little spaced out on it. He takes it before he goes to sleep along with Ativan. He currently is on Zyprexa and Lexapro. He takes the Zyprexa for manic depression. The Lexapro so far has not taken effect yet, but he has only been on it a week or so. He was on zoloft for a year and was taking up to 400mg. and between you and me I thinki it did more harm than good. Now he is off of it.
I do have a great deal of background when it comes to depression and pharmacology. Between my niece, wife and father who has been battling chronic depression for years; I feel like I sometimes play the doctor or therapist between them all, if you know what I mean?. If you would like my advice, talk to her physician about perscribing prozac 20mg.; it seems to be doing the trick for my niece. And it has been around for a while, and has very few side effects. Hope I have been helpfull. If you need any more feedback please feel free to write me. Take care.
To answer your question, whether anyone has a young child in the family etc... that has depression? I have to say yes. My 16 year old niece suffers from depression and has had several suicidal thoughts. Presently she takes 20mg. of Prozac and it seems to be doing the trick, with few or no side-effects. I am very familiar with depression and bi-polar manic depression, because I have two members of the family with depression. Depakote is a good medication for depression, however it can have a tendency to put weight on, and also your daughter should have a liver function test each month to make sure that the depakote levels are not too high for her age weight etc... I am sure the doctor probably told you these things however. Also Trazadone, yes can make you sleepy. My father seems a little spaced out on it. He takes it before he goes to sleep along with Ativan. He currently is on Zyprexa and Lexapro. He takes the Zyprexa for manic depression. The Lexapro so far has not taken effect yet, but he has only been on it a week or so. He was on zoloft for a year and was taking up to 400mg. and between you and me I thinki it did more harm than good. Now he is off of it.
I do have a great deal of background when it comes to depression and pharmacology. Between my niece, wife and father who has been battling chronic depression for years; I feel like I sometimes play the doctor or therapist between them all, if you know what I mean?. If you would like my advice, talk to her physician about perscribing prozac 20mg.; it seems to be doing the trick for my niece. And it has been around for a while, and has very few side effects. Hope I have been helpfull. If you need any more feedback please feel free to write me. Take care.
14 y/o bipolar and anti depressants 
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