PPT & Can't Pee

Lovely.

We had our PPT meeting at the new school on Friday. It seems really nice. The principal and all of the staff all go by first names which seems really nice. The classes max out at 8 students and all students are at grade level or above. Surprisingly, M made it through without Melting down, though he did shutdown for a good portion of the meeting. I think our saving grace was that it apparently never dawned on him that he was going to be going there. He thought we were only "looking" at the school...he was not clear that it was more of a sure thing...he still thinks/thought he was going back to his other school.

After the PPT, we decided to spend the afternoon at a local amusement park. It was there that we found out that M is having trouble urinating. The entire time he did not pee once. On the way home, I checked online on my phone to see the side effects lists of the Seroquel and Strattera to see if difficulty urinating was on either drug list and once we were at home I called the pediatrician's office for advice. They said if he didn't pee after a warm bath, to take him to the ER. After a warm bath, he finally was able to pass some urine, so we didn't take him.

Saturday afternoon, the difficulty reared it's ugly head again and by Saturday night M complained it was painful to pee when the flow of urine started. So, on Sunday morning I placed a call to the Psychiatrist. When I didn't hear back from the Psych by the afternoon, I took M to the ER. The ER was of NO HELP at all. They just dipped the few drops he was able to grunt out over the course of the few hours we were there (literally drops!) for a UTI and it came up clean, they scanned his belly to measure the amount of urine he was storing, said it wasn't either med causing it (yeah right!), and sent us home. :::sigh:::

Today M says it hurts MORE when he pees, he seems to be having more trouble, and yes folks, if you read my other post, he's far more irritable, as we have no basis for our now 1+hour long meltdown. And, still no return call from the psychiatrist for his input on if it's a result of the increase in the Seroquel or if it's the Strattera finally reaching it's peak in his body (difficult urination is listed as a "serious side effect" for Strattera...I'm just not clear if it could take 4 weeks to get that side effect).

So...looks like I'll be making it up as I go along tonight...I'll probably titrate down the Seroquel to 300 mg a day and see if that helps. 150 mg x 2 If the psychiatrist isn't going to call me back, he's just going to have to deal with my decision.