Belrix–one last bit of advice. Don’t provide folks here with any more ammo. You have enough to deal with. Get a therapist and don’t post about this for a month. See what a difference it makes. If you post here, you’re opening yourself up to more shit (and some good advice, too, but IMO, the shit outweighs the advice when you can get the support and advice w/o shit at a therapist).
I can’t wait for some jackal to come along and pick apart your email to your Ex. I really hope no one does so. Sometimes this place makes me ill.
Benedryl isn’t hard on your liver - relatively speaking. Tylenol is. Benedryl is also not suppose to be addictive while most prescription sleep meds have proven to be addictive (or perhaps its more a matter of Benedryl is not AS addictive as prescription sleep meds), so it tends to be the first suggestion of doctors for sleep issues - relatively low risk (my kids drank benedryl as preschoolers, I called poison control and he laughed - ‘don’t worry about it, pop in a grown up movie and enjoy the fact they’ll sleep ten hours.’ He did have me wake them up to be vaguely responsive every four hours all night), tends to work fairly well as a sleep aid (although as Belrix pointed out, it isn’t always the most restful sleep - but when you can’t sleep, crappy sleep is better than no sleep).
Tylenol is also particularly bad in combination with certain other things - notably alcohol. Not an issue with a small child (I’d assume), but worth noting for grownups that when the bottle says “don’t use this if you drink more than two alcoholic beverages a day” they DO mean it.
I’ll lay odds with Belrix’s kids doctors that nothing shows up on the blood test. But on the off chance she has non-typical sensitivities, knowing today rather than two months from now could be the difference between a temporary enlarged liver and something permanent.
I disagree with SwB - I know plenty of doctors who won’t order ‘unnecessary’ testing, particularly on kids. I had two mammograms this year - my normal one and one because I had non-cyclical stabbing pain for longer than six weeks. My doctor sent me right in “better safe than sorry, my mom is a survivor and her only sign was stabbing pain” - the radiologist said “nothing there, can’t believe anyone ordered this for pain - its only cancer 3% of the time with pain and no lumps!” We had to fight to get a TB test for my son - who’d come from a part of the world where TB was not uncommon with a hacking cough that didn’t clear. “Ah, it probably isn’t TB” (and it wasn’t).
I’m going to follow one last piece of offered advice here.
Continue to discuss if you want - I’m done with this thread. I’ve got some good ideas from here, thanks to some of you for your helpful comments.
My parting shot: I’ve been as honest here, and in my other train-wreck threads, as I know how to be. It’s all filtered through my perceptions, though, so caveat emptor. However, if you think I’m a liar, my assurances will mean nothing to you.