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Is extreme tiredness normal?

misskittykat

I took my 13 yr old daughter out yesterday to meet friends that we haven't seen in ages.  It was a long day for her (train journey there and back) but we spent 5 hours with our friends, several having lunch, another 45 minutes stop for tea/cake as we were all aware that she couldn't cope with walking about for hours on end.

She really struggled to get through the last 2 hours.  I've never been one for staying in all the time so she is used to doing this sort of thing but she used to have so much more energy and get up and go.  It made me think over the last year and I can see that the extreme tiredness has been creaping up on us. 

It could be normal teenage hormones or her medication (she's been on Sertraline for 2 months) or is it because her sensory processing disoder is more extreme now?  Just wondered if others suffer or their children suffer and was there a time when things were better and if they are likely to get better?  I'm worried that she will become a recluse and lost contact with the outside world completely.  I'm still pretty new to this (diagnosis in Feb) and although I've been aware of her differences for a long time, am only just begining to 'get it'.

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  • Yeay, mmisskittykat, it is wonderful to find someone els whose child is on sertraline.  My young man has just started his for panic attacks, self harm, stress and suicidal thoughts.  How is your daughter getting on?  

    He has been on the medication for 5 days now and i am already beginning to get glimpses of my son back.  I read the side effets leaflet and then binned it.  The side effects are minimal there is in most cases a 1 in 1000 chance of getting even the mild symptons.  If the children really aren't coping on it they can be transferred to prozac, but it is not as affective.  

    Our psychologist did mention that it an make the children lethargic, but that this will pass.  My son has a processing delay as well, but there are ways that the schools can take this in to account.  for example if he has a test the shool will take him in to a room he is comfortable with with his teaching assessment, and then they give him longer to do the test.  (last time they even gave him chocolate millk and a pizza!!)

    Have you read the books by Tony Attwood? he is brilliant

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  • Yeay, mmisskittykat, it is wonderful to find someone els whose child is on sertraline.  My young man has just started his for panic attacks, self harm, stress and suicidal thoughts.  How is your daughter getting on?  

    He has been on the medication for 5 days now and i am already beginning to get glimpses of my son back.  I read the side effets leaflet and then binned it.  The side effects are minimal there is in most cases a 1 in 1000 chance of getting even the mild symptons.  If the children really aren't coping on it they can be transferred to prozac, but it is not as affective.  

    Our psychologist did mention that it an make the children lethargic, but that this will pass.  My son has a processing delay as well, but there are ways that the schools can take this in to account.  for example if he has a test the shool will take him in to a room he is comfortable with with his teaching assessment, and then they give him longer to do the test.  (last time they even gave him chocolate millk and a pizza!!)

    Have you read the books by Tony Attwood? he is brilliant

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