Follow-up
Medication visits
Short visits to start a medicine, adjust it and keep it steady.
After the first session, most visits are 20 to 30 minutes. Each one looks at how your child is sleeping, eating, feeling and doing at school, and at how the medicine is going. The plan is updated in writing after every visit.
At a glance
Length: 20 to 30 minutes
Pace: your prescriber sets it; more often at first, then less
Fee: set by the visit length, in writing before you start
What a medication visit covers
One change at a time, so you can tell what each one does.
Step 1: How things have been
Sleep, appetite, mood, energy and school since the last visit, in your words and your child's.
Step 2: The medicine
Doses, timing, side effects and anything you noticed. We ask your child, too.
Step 3: One decision
Keep going, adjust, wait, or stop. Nothing changes without a conversation.
Step 4: The updated plan
The plan, what to watch for and when to call, in writing after the visit.
What this is not
Not therapy
We can suggest therapists and work with the one your child sees.
Not a refill line
Refills follow a visit schedule so each medicine is reviewed.
Not an emergency line
For a crisis call or text 988. In an emergency call 911.
Questions
Questions about medication visits
Can follow-up visits be by video?
Many can, when your child is in Texas at the time. A controlled medicine is started and reviewed in person; see our prescribing policy.
What if my child has a side effect between visits?
Call the office on a business day. A prescriber replies by phone or message. If a child seems very unwell, call 911.
Will my child need to stay on a medicine for years?
Your prescriber reviews the plan at every visit, including whether to continue, change or stop. We do not decide that in advance.
Questions about a medicine?
Write to us, or read how we prescribe.