TBI - 18 yr old w/Severe OCD

[smokingun35]

Man what a rollercoaster!! At 11 my son was diagnosed with severe OCD when he started telling us he thought he was crazy because he was thinking people would die if he didn't count or do rituals or whatever. Went through hell to 17 including pulling a once very athletic and A+ student from school to home school just so he could pass as he could not focus well enough to make anything over a D any more at school..

Tried several meds and ERP with crappy results.. Did prozac at 17 and it changed him 100%.. He lived 4 months almost symptom free and it was so much fun to have our son back!!

Then he was a passenger in a vehicle with another kid who pulled out in front of an 18 wheeler on my sons side. Almost died on the scene - airlifted to Trauma Center - 10 months later and 3rd brain related surgery 10 days ago to replace his bone flap with polymer since his body absorbed too much of the bone flap over time, he is 100% mentally, should be that physically as long as he does not reject the implant, however his OCD is Full Blown since the wreck with the same meds...

We thought that maybe after a year the OCD might level out a his brain healed but no such luck..

Are there any newly released meds out there for OCD..??

Also, are there any teen fomums for TBI kids?

[vini]

hi sorry to here about your boy a nuro psychologist mat be able to help the trauma of the accident may well have set if off again this forum is abit quite there are others but forum rules say I can,t give you a link don,t know your location

http://www.biausa.org/stateoffices.htm for USA

http://www.headway.org.uk/ for UK maybe worth contacting

[smokingun35]

hi sorry to here about your boy a nuro psychologist mat be able to help the trauma of the accident may well have set if off again this forum is abit quite there are others but forum rules say I can,t give you a link don,t know your location

http://www.biausa.org/stateoffices.htm for USA

http://www.headway.org.uk/ for UK maybe worth contacting

Sorry I havent been on in a while.. The last years worth of stuff with my son combined with trying to hold onto a very stressful job through his issues has just worn me down to a point of forgettiing what I did last.

We are in the Mid-South US... I am open to suggestions for sure.. Thank God my son has not rejected the implant at this point however the shape of his head is now not what it was before.. One more thing for a now 18 yr old boy with severe OCD, siezure issues etc... to deal with.. I can't imagine what he has to be going through inside as it is tearing me apart inside... I'm to a point myself now that I need something for depression to keep going I think. I have always suffered from some depression but never treated it. This last ordeal has just about finished me off as far as my being able to function normally. I don't leave the house except to go to work. I have bad dreams every night.. I think about my sons problems or dream he is in a swimming pool and has a siezure.. I can't bare the thought of what he has to face.

Sorry to unload all this but I don't have anywhere to unload it at home and it seems to help short-term to get some of this out.

[smokingun35]

My son is having intermitent short dizzy spells that make him gag or throw-up since the wreck last May. He takes Carbitrol to avoid having seizures that started after the wreck and has had the med level tested twice and it is fine. This happens randomly every 5 - 10 days and after he gags or throws-up he will be perfectly fine.. Has anyone else had this experience after head trauma?