We are home from the doctor | ADHD Information

Thanks. Yeah he's passed some today about 4 times but they were still solid. Good thing hubby is home with me tomorrow all day :) Good luck. You are doing great.well so now the not so great news, the soonest that they can get him in in st louis is not till july. i don't know the exact date, she said she would give me the information when i came in on monday. so we'll see. but i think as soon as she does i'm going to call them myself and ask them if they can put me on a call for any cancellations they might have. but i know when i did that with the neurologist they told me that they couldn't do that. if the doctor wanted me in sooner the doctor would have to call. so lets hope that they don't tell me that. but if they do i will call the doctor back and tell him that and see what he can do. because he agreed this can't go on any longer. i think today he saw my desperation to help him, but my exhaustion from not finding a solution. He wasn't sure. He was actually stumped. He ordered an xray and we waited for him to get it and his entire intestinal tract is full from one end to the other. But his colon is NOT stretched which he said was good. So he said keep him out of school until monday and gave me a script "lactulose" to give him twice a day. He goes back on monday to make sure it cleans him out. They are working on getting him an appointment with a gastroenterologist in st louis and said they can also help him with behavioural modification there. So we'll see. Keep your fingers crossed for him.

poor little guy!! lactulose WILL clean him out...just so you know I am a pharmacy tech ! Maybe stick around the house!

 

Good luck!

yeah thats what we are doing. he's taking 15ml twice a day for 7 days. he said it shouldn't take 7 days though. he should be good by monday. but he has to see the gastroenterologist and have behaviour modification because otherwise he will just continue to hold it. :(

I pray something helps because it can't be easy for him to focus at school with this going on.

Yeah, I agree, Lactulose will clean him out, especially if taken with Ginger ale. That's what they give you before a colonoscopy. Stick around the house, it should(will) work within 24-48 hours, but sometimes within 4 hours. ALso, make sure he drinks plenty of water.

We were told by my son's doctor to use mineral oil along with whatever my son would like to drink...slush, shake, milk, water, diet coke...whatever way we could get it down... 3 to 4 oz 3 times a day for 3 to 4 days.   Trust me when I say it helped my son tremendously. 

ok Trent's had 3 doses so far and has not gone anymore since the 4 small amounts yesterday day. :(

Is he not going because he can't ( encopresis), or because he doesn't need to?

With Lactulose he will go if his body has something there to go.  

well they said his entire track or whatever was completely full. and i know what it was like the last time he was 3/4ths full and he couldn't stop going for 4 days straight. But with this lactulose he only went 4 times very small amounts and it was still solid. but he hasn't gone since then. I would give the lactulose a little while longer. It can take 24-48 hours. ok thanks. i wasn't sure. i know with the mag it wasn't instant but it was the very next day. it just worries me that he is so full. i'll give it till tomorrow and see if anything happens. A little bit of MOM works well also. He never went at all yesterday. I guess I'm just going to have to try something else, because this stuff isnt working at all on him. :(