The roller coaster ride of rampant toxicity.
Those who have been reading this journal for any length of time have often heard me lament the cyclical nature of trying to recover your kid from the autism spectrum. You might feel at the top of your top of your game one day, and everything seems to fall into place with a soft but firm click, when only days before you felt as if you couldn’t go any lower. And then a regression blindsides you with the force of a Mack truck, and you’re miserable again. But never fear, something’ll amble along to give your spirits a boost the following week. Or the following day. Hell, sometimes even the same day.
Here’s a Reader’s Digest condensed version of the past week:
We were seeing all kinds of yuck resulting from our beginning transdermal DMPS, as documented in my last post. It got so bad, even after dropping back down to three drops, that we made the decision to throw in the towel. We didn’t do so lightly. I went to a lecture by Dr. Buttar in May, where he talked about his pilot study with the stuff he invented. He mentioned that most of the kids who didn’t recover were a direct result of parents getting skittish about negative reactions and/or the cost of testing and thereby stopping the treatment. That’s crazy, I thought. Don’t these people know that you have a break a few eggs if you want an omelette? No pain, no gain. Insert your favorite pluck-beats-adversity cliché here. What a bunch of pussies.
Um, yeah. We lasted five doses. That must be some kind of quitter’s record.
Then we started researching more natural chelating solutions like NDF Plus. We ordered some and had planned to give it a shot.
Then a funny thing happened. After his chelator-induced regression subsided, the kid bounced back better than ever. He started demonstrating all kinds of appropriate play. He was more affectionate, and started to add new utterances to his repetoire. We’re torn. It’s clear that the DMPS had some benefits (which have since subsided). Now we’re at a loss of what to do. My guess is to give the NDF a go to see if we see similar gains, but without all the stimmy, disconnected behaviors.
We had a bad day today. But not to worry. We’ll catch another break in short order.
January 31st, 2005 at 11:33 am
Hi,
I no it’s hard making changes and choices. Been there many times. Dr. Buttar is very harsh, Kind of like if you use it you DO and if you DONT you DONT, no hard feeling. I was supprised too by his attitude, but that’s what I gathered, I think he’s doing this because of the promise he made with God, that if his son got better, He would use what he learned to help others. I’m glad Dr. Buttar was not selfish and Im glad he beleives in HIM. I think he is getting attact’s from all over. Have Faith. Many prayers. MJ