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My daughter is 11 1/2 and had been treated for ADD .  Her heart rate 130 .  they cut her meds and she had a lot of problems.  I had asked for a thyriod test.  Ran in the family.  The doctors wouldn't do it until I called another doctor and it proved she had a thyriod problem.  She probably had it from birth.  Floopy baby/ they took me off my thyriod meds and said I was enthyriod. Her amino acids was slightly raised.  She had tanturms at 6 months old.  Very picky eater and  couldn't stand tags in shirt.  Ate her pencils down to nubs,  compulsive  and balance very bad.  She will fight on every thing she does or ask to do.  She still has tanturms and screams and crys when ever she is asked to do her homework,  chores, get ready for school, just about everything which is asked of her.  This morning she was told to get her spelling before school,[ she is tired all the time but won't go to bed and she is on 75 mg of thyroid med.  also tumor was found and biop to be done tomorrow].She will scream and scream whine and cry all the way through it.  She even tried to scratch me.  When she does clean off the table she just can't  get everything off  and is repeatedly ask to look at the table and see what is need to be taken off.  She won't put lids on pop bottles,milk, jars and put anything a way even after being brought back to do it time after time.  She will leave the door open when she goes to school at below zero weather.  We go over what is needed to be done over and over. Still does not do it. I'm not sure if it is a power struggle or if she is just lazy and I know she has a great mind but the things she does is like a 3 or four year old would do on their worst day.  I had a 3 year old here which didn't dump his milk or food all over himself.  She won't even set at the table and eat like a person and will wear her food everyday.  I'm worried about her .  When she is at other kids houses the parents says she is just great .... what do I do?  Should I send her to a place which will teach her that she needs to do things even if she doesn't want to or is it me which is causing her to do this.  I need her to learn and develope the right ways to get her through life.

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We went in and they figure out one the the masses was a parathyriod/test before hand was good for that.  the other was a cyst but it was right next to a major vein so they didn't want to test it yet.   Auto immune problem after hearing the thyriod problems in the family.  He also agreed with me that she probably had it a birth and she will have to be tested ever six months or year to see how it is doing for life.  They are testing so many children for thyroid, diabetes,and ms lately.  After looking on the forum of the other sights I can find alot of things the same or very close which was going on with her and us.  Mood swings sure go hand in hand also with it.  constipation  and speech problems also.  When I seen others like us , I had to say something about what happened to us. Thanks for the words of advise.  Make sure the people get a thyriod report done on their kids and watch the pulse while useing the medicines.  Tired and pulse was the best thing that caught my attention but moodswings, constipation , and weight gain/or not maybe of some help.

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Thanks ! we will see what comes next.

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We took her off of med completely and she is pulling a b and c 's on her report card .  She did best on concerta but the other pills she didn't do good and all makes her pulse high.  It had stopped her from almost eating at all.  58- 62 lbs for 3 years 3gr. to 5th grl.  After takeing her off and she has gain weight now is 90 lbs.  She is so smart and when she was 4yr old just loved school books preschool to  first grade .  She didn't want to stop and she could remember every word of a book. She loves video games and understands them but can't under stand reading problems.  She can't get organize { I had a learning disability probably ADD but in them years I was just slow.  Still am but have learned to look ahead and plan some.  I can see how things are done and can do it . reading about it I met a blank wall.  I forgot what I read even if I read it a dozen times.  After I got older I can now under stand alot.  My husband has Picks disease and the father and daughter are so alike that I think I have twin kids.  Picks is the front brain is dying and will go into Alztimer/sp and is 40% hereditary so I'm also scared of that.  Its starts usely in 40-50 yrs of age.  So beside my daughter haveing problems so is her dad.  It is hard on all of us.  The signs of Picks is aggession and reasoning .  His personality change from quite to he will fight about everything, just like my daughter does. My 87 year old neighbor says they are a like.  Both will try to talk to me at once, think I'm talking to them when I'm on the phone.  Will get mad over everything.  If I try to get my daughter to finish or do anything she doesn't want to do she gets mad then he gets mad at me.  When I tell her to do it .  He say she won't and of course she won't. that is why I fill Like I'm running out of ways to help her.

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