Medication

Posted 12 days ago

There is so much valuable experience in all of the replies thank you everyone, I feel that in a way we are the experts as we are the ones giving 24 hour care. I just wondered how is everyone doing and how are your children doing ?

Posted 4 months ago

Sorry you have had to find your way to this forum but I have found it to be a lifeline in the last few months since my Ds diagnosis. I will let you know what worked for us and hope that some of it can work for you.

MEDICATION:
My D was diagnosed with Anorexia Nervosa with depression and anxiety in November 2017 and was prescribed 25mg Sertraline which both us as parents and my D agrees have helped her deal with the feelings that she associated with her ED.

SCHOOL:
November we were told that our 15 year old D was not strong enough to be at school (such a blow to us as we had been to parents evening the night before and were told that she was on track for "A"s at end of year 11). My GP signed me off work for a few months which like Sunshine Days was a god send in the fact that I didn't have "time" pressure and could sit for as long as it took our D to eat a meal (sometimes upto 2.5hrs). In January our D was allowed back at school on a "phased" return which was assessed at our weekly Family Based Therapy (FBT) sessions and gradually over the weeks she was allowed back at school for all lessons and my H collecting her from school every day and giving her a lunch as per her meal plan. Last week it was agreed that she could try and have lunch at school which she tells us she has been doing but the scales will tell tomorrow at FBT.

Whilst re-feeding our D we made it clear to her (well rather ED) that we would not be moving from the table until she had finished her meal in front of her and her next meal would be at the same agreed time even if it was 1hr after she finished said meal (AND WE HAD TO STICK TO OUR WORD). We also found that distraction tactics that she could do at the table during mealtimes worked (eg colour by number, wordsearches and even her phone:)

We still have the "odd" flare up and have learnt to recognise the signs of ED and encourage her to talk to us instead of bottling whatever is bothering her.

Posted 5 months ago

Looking for some advice. Our daughter was diagnosed just before Christmas and we have been attending sessions twice weekly. It has been really difficult trying to refeed and get our heads round this illness and the stresses that it brings. She is just about in school and is desperate to do well in exams to get to University, which in itself is such a frightening thought. In therapy this week it was suggested that she start taking Prozac. She is only 17 and the whole idea of this has really knocked my husband and I for 6. We want what is best for her but this seems so drastic. Can anyone advise as to their experience of this and if medication is helpful?