Schizoaffective disorder may be the best diagnosis we have to date. We believe this is a temporary problem but when people say schizophrenia or paranoid schizophrenia it seems like a life long thing.
This year, there's been two incidents. Before the haldol injection there was an incident at school of rocking and crying believing that a friend had committed suicide (they hadn't). Later in the day we had the typical yelling at us, misunderstanding simple statements, talking incoherently really fast, and pacing (an inability to stay still.)
The haldol just wasn't a match for us. He slept 19 hours a day and on the day for a new injection there was a major breakdown. He could not sleep running into the night, returning, leaving, returning...until running in school traffic and laying down in the school parking lot. At this point he was very excited, seeing things that were not there, etc... I took him straight to the hospital where he was given an injection of invega. This episode took about 5 days to run its course.
Invega brought speech problems, involuntary movements, and cotton mouth. Cogentin was given to counteract the side effects. It's 3 weeks later and he's still taking the cogentin 3 times a day as well as buspirone for anxiety.
We don't have a good plan for anti-psychotic medicine. I would love to hear from anyone that can relate, or has encouraging words.
I didn't realize that this was going on. My heart hurts for Jacob. I wish you all the best at finding the right things for him. All my love to you all!
ReplyDeleteThank you. Jacob has had a very hard day today. Maybe too much activity too soon. I don't know. He just got out of the hospital yesterday after being there a month. Again, thank you so much for your love and concern.
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