The past few weeks have been really crazy for me!! Despite my efforts to take dyes out of my children's diets, it was not changing their crazy ways enough to notice. In fact, Crockett has almost been worse since changing his diet. For two weeks I have received calls from Crockett's school and was called to his church classes on Sunday and Wednesday nights telling me that he was uncontrollable and impossible to deal with. He was yelling, kicking, screaming and just acting all around terrible. The first time the school called me, I talked to him on the phone and warned him that if I had to come there that he would get a spanking and he calmed a bit, long enough to make it to nap time and then to the end of school. That was a Tuesday but on Thursday of that same week, he was in time out and was being so defiant that a phone call wasn't doing it and I had to physically go down there and discipline and by the time I got back to pick him up, he was in time out again and crying and carrying on. It was TERRIBLE! There were two things I was struggling with. First, I didn't want to leave Crockett there for the teachers to worry with anymore but the second thing was that I also didn't want to give him the pleasure of going home. He needs to know that he can't just throw a fit and go home. SO, I disciplined at school and made him stay. This way he knew that I was in charge and dictated what he did, not him.
This past Tuesday was better but not perfect. Still a few time outs but tolerable. Then on Thursday, Crockett was broken out and itchy so I gave him a little benadryl before he went to school and he had the best day he's had in a LONG time! When I dropped him off that morning, I was talking to several other parents in his class and they were telling me that Singulair caused behavior problems in their kids. I had researched that before but there was nothing saying that it was a side effect so I dropped it. These moms swore that it affected their children adversely and were so passionate about it that I decided it couldn't hurt to try it. (BTW, out of 9 boys in Crockett's class, 4 of them have some kind of allergy or asthma....kinda sad statistics!)
I called the doctor as soon as I left the building to make sure it was okay to take him off the medicine just to see and they said it was fine. They suggested that we take him off over the weekend and watch him and decide if that was the problem. He didn't have any Singulair on Thursday night and on Friday he was an ANGEL! I had NO problems with him. He never had a meltdown. He did exactly as I told him to with little or no hesitation or back talk. He was just an all around different child in just about every way! I am CONVINCED that is what was causing his attitude!
I am going to call the doctor tomorrow to see if there is an alternative medicine that he can be on and go from there. I am so excited about the prospect of having my sweet sweet little boy back!
Please continue lifting our family up in your prayers as we figure out the right mix of meds that work with Crockett and don't affect him adversely!
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