Back in December, I wrote that we had discovered a lot of E.’s tic triggers. By triggers, I mean that, first of all, having upwards of fifteen tics at a time for most of the day did not last forever. The severity waned over the course of about a month, and we were left with many tics, but a little boy that was still able to function.
I now, due to research I have done, have three or four theories concerning exactly what happened to our little boy. One would be PANDAS, which, unlike other tic disorders, is the result of an autoimmune reaction to a strep infection, and is also characterized by a burst of tics at the onset rather than a gradual increase of tics over time.
However, I am not sure it matters what it is called as long as I can find the root issues and treat them. And once the doctor told me that preschool was the best solution for the problem, I knew that it was up to me to get this solved.
We did see a second doctor, and she told me to relax, that, had she been there on our initial visit, she would have run a full toxicity scan since sometimes such a dramatic onset can also be a sign of poisoning.
This doctor also informed me that he was probably a candidate for Tourette’s, but that a diagnosis for the syndrome requires the child to have symptoms for a year.
I mentally gave myself until August 2007 to solve the problem. This is when we would hit the one-year mark, and E. would be a candidate for a Tourette’s diagnosis.
Within five or six months, I had discovered major triggers for the worsening of his tics. However, I hadn’t solved the underlying problems. He still had a few little shoulder-shrugs each day, among other things. I felt that triggers were nice to avoid, but we needed to solve the problem.
Early on in this journey, a friend of mine mentioned Asperger’s. This particular friend didn’t know a lot about it, but she was a former teacher who once had a student with Asperger’s. She said that all she remembered about this student was that he had tics coupled with an amazingly high reading level. She knew that our son was an avid reader already at the age of four, and thought there might be some connection.
This is how I ended up in the world of researching vaccines and their side-effects, because many parents of children with autism spectrum disorders like Asperger’s believe that there is a connection between the excessive toxic exposure from vaccinations and the rising rates of autism, ADD, ADHD, Asperger’s, and Tourette’s.
While researching the vaccines, I did find that some of the preservatives in them were the same ones that I avoided in food for E. because they were specific triggers. Why would I allow a doctor to inject him with a trigger chemical {which, by the way, is the least natural way for the body to receive a chemical because it bypasses the entire lymph system, the skin barrier, and the protective acids in the saliva and stomach and heads straight for the blood} when I didn’t even allow the poor boy to eat it? Needless to say, we discontinued vaccinations. We had already had our consciences pricked over other issues with vaccines, anyhow.
By the way, don’t let anyone ever tell you that vaccines are harmless. If that were true, the U.S. government would not have set up a fund for the purposes of paying off the victims.
Moving ever onward…
It was research done by parent of children with these syndromes, not medical doctors, that would eventually lead me to the solution I was looking for.
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