So obviously I am not a doctor, but when it comes to my kids I often act like I am...LOL!
Miss Spitfire has been really good health wise lately, Thank you Lord! We are having a daily issue with her taking her meds though. Again this is a massive pill she must take 2X's a day. I open it up and put the contents of the pill in a yogurt or pudding ( not stirred at all). We were told to put the this in applesauce only and DO NOT stir any of it. My poor baby does not like any kind of applesauce and believe me we tried them all. So anyway... she is burnt out on yogurt and pudding. She cries almost every time I ask her to take her medicine. It can be heart breaking sometimes, cause you and I both know how it is when you are burnt out on something and you never ever want to eat or drink that ever again! Well she doesn't have the luxury of saying she won't ever eat it again.
So the Doctor that I am decided to negotiate with her. I said to her " you have done so well and we thank the Lord you have not had any bad days, let's stop the meds for ONE week and see how you do"! She was thrilled and to be honest I was too! She did awesome, things were going well ( we stuck to the diet of course, we will always stick with her new diet)! On day 6, Sunday, she cried about her stomach. She laid on the couch all evening and nothing was getting any better. Sadly she had to go to bed feeling this way cause there isn't anything I can give her to make it go away. Monday she didn't take it either, I wanted to give her a full 7 days to see! Yesterday my poor baby came home from school crying she had a headache and she had had it the entire day. She said her head was beeping and she was having a hard time seeing. I felt so bad, I of course gave her some Motrin and an hour later she was better. I said to myself, "the medicines do work and she needs to stay on them", DUH!!!!!
There is a reason she has GI doctor and there is a reason he prescribed this medicine for her! There is NO reason for me to think I could play doctor for a week and make my daughter suffer! He went to med school and all I did was deliver her... hmmmm who is more qualified to say if she needs to stay on her meds?! NOT ME!!! LOL, I am dork and yes she is back on the medicine today. I just feel so bad that she is back to the yogurts and puddings. So to all those mom's out there who play doctor like I do... DON'T!
I just wish there was another form of medicine for her take! This is just too much on a little girl who can't take a pill, let alone 2X's a day! So anyway I just thought I would share that her medicine is working and she is doing so well on it. It helps her so much and I just didn't see it!
So I will retire my MD title today :)
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Just remember that a momma has a gut instinct for a reason. If I didn't play doctor with Kels in the past, she would still be on meds she didn't need and drinking thickened milk causing her not to eat, many other things and would be no where near where she is now. Maybe it was too soon to try something different with her. You know your child better than any doc but yes they do have a degree for a reason. Glad she is feeling better!!
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