Aspergers/Autism/Sensory Integration Chatter #4

[meow]

Thanks Yeddi! That's the sort of stuff our ND does too. The more I read about all this gut health- mental health relationship I really think there is something in it too. My instincts just feel it's a path we have to explore. I've only watched the first clip so far- interestingly I BF E till he was 2 and he was developing well until then. I had wondered about a link there and she explained it really well. E went into decline from his 2nd birthday. We didn't get a speech assessment till he was 2 years 9 months because we kept wondering if it was a just a little set back given how well he had been going up until 2. He continued to get worse and worse that year though. He has been on a GFCF diet for about 2 months now and his language and behaviour keeps improving all the time.

[*Efjay*]

Its quite in here....

Just a little vent to let it out... Evan is having meltdowns almost daily. It seems like he is constantly in a state of "egg shells". What I like to call it when you can see the meltdown is coming & its just a matter of trying hard to avoid triggering it. But I have no idea what it is triggering it. Its everything. Yesterday we went to the park, at his request. Get there & he was moody because the park was "boring". So we went to another park that we hadn't been to properly before. It was a nice reserve type park. Lots of trees, a creek etc. Again he stomped around complaining how the trees had green ants on them or spiders etc. Just everything he was in a foul mood about. Eventually later at home he had his meltdown which was triggered when I took a FULL glass of soft drink off him. Dh had bought some creaming soda as a treat & Evan poured all the kids a cup. But gave himself a adult size glass & filled it to the brim. So I took it from him & drank half & gave it back. He flipped out & tipped the rest down the sink & spent the next 40 min throwing things around because I drank ALL of his drink & he didn't get any. When I tried to tell DH (who was in teh bath) what happened Evan changed his story to I drank half & then I tipped the rest out.
He eventually settled down though.

I don't know what to do or who to ask for help from. The school is slow, the pead's office stuffed up & was waiting to hear from the school before sending anything BUT the school has been waiting on stuff from the pead. I feel like we are somewhat prisoners, locked in by his constant threat of a meltdown. We use to see a counsellor in NSW through the community health services. But I can't find any information on anything like that available here.

To top it off Iain is copying Evans behaviour now too Isla is being a handful, demanding (attention, who can blame here really) & just being a brat. Poor Glenn is just sinking into the background & Rohan is becoming a colicy, needs to be held constantly baby.

[Yeddi]

Rohan was put on antibiotics wasn't he? Have you been taking a probiotic to counterbalance that? It should help.

[*Efjay*]

Rohan was put on antibiotics wasn't he? Have you been taking a probiotic to counterbalance that? It should help.

They were IV antibiotics not oral. Would that make any difference? I didn't even think that it may be that...

[*Efjay*]

Thats odd, before I didn't see any replies to post a few days ago & now they are there.

I don't feel amazing thats for sure. I feel stretched beyond limits & at a loss as to how to make things better.

[christy]

It does make a difference, the IV ab's still affect gut flora. I can't remember why.... but I know they can. Just like if we have ab's iv and still get the stomach side effects. I would try the probiotics, they worked wonders for me when JJ had heaps of refluxy type issues when I had massive amounts of ab's due to an infection when she was 5 weeks...

[*Efjay*]

THANKS FOR THAT, I WILL PICK SOME up this afternoon