Re: OT: Hypersensitivity to Pain

[Guest guest]

We have this. A tad of sunburn means he can't go out because he

can't put a shirt on (I say, as we sit at the beach now). On the

other hand, he's very INsensitive to some things, like when he

complained slightly of his ears to find out from the doctor that he

had VERY inflamed ears and the doc was surprised he wasn't in more

pain. (He was never an ear infection guy).

Deb

[Guest guest]

Deb,

This sounds exactly like my son, who is eight. He only had two,

maybe three ear infections that I can recall, and he hardly made any

mention of them to us. The teacher said at school, he was pain

intolerant, but at home, we almost always saw an extreme over-

reaction to pain (except for the ears). I could never figure this

out. Since he has done so well with the enzymes, I have seen more of

a leveling out of this behavior. I wish I had some advice, but it

was always a mystery to me on how to handle the issue.

> We have this. A tad of sunburn means he can't go out because he

> can't put a shirt on (I say, as we sit at the beach now). On the

> other hand, he's very INsensitive to some things, like when he

> complained slightly of his ears to find out from the doctor that he

> had VERY inflamed ears and the doc was surprised he wasn't in more

> pain. (He was never an ear infection guy).

>

> Deb

[Guest guest]

I need to clarify, at school was pain insensitive. I wonder if all

the overstimulation of school somehow overshadows the pain. You

would think it would be the opposite.

> > We have this. A tad of sunburn means he can't go out because he

> > can't put a shirt on (I say, as we sit at the beach now). On the

> > other hand, he's very INsensitive to some things, like when he

> > complained slightly of his ears to find out from the doctor that

he

> > had VERY inflamed ears and the doc was surprised he wasn't in

more

> > pain. (He was never an ear infection guy).

> >

> > Deb

[Guest guest]

Yes, definitely. Older son and I had such miserable headaches that we

were already in so much pain that a little bit more really caused a

reaction. It was like I was already maxed out in pain control and

tolerance and didn't have much energy left for new stuff.

However, younger son could probably loose an arm and not notice it.

LOL. He seemed to take a beating and keep on ticking quite regularly,

so I really had to keep an eye on him. Both extremes, as well as

tottering between the two, fall into sensory integration dysfunction

(termed SID or DSI). There is a really good (and busy) board

for this. There are therapies that you can do to help this. Most ASD

kids have some sensory problems, but you can have SID without have

further ASD issues.

sid

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> We have this. A tad of sunburn means he can't go out because he

> can't put a shirt on (I say, as we sit at the beach now). On the

> other hand, he's very INsensitive to some things, like when he

> complained slightly of his ears to find out from the doctor that he

> had VERY inflamed ears and the doc was surprised he wasn't in more

> pain. (He was never an ear infection guy).

>

> Deb

[Guest guest]

My son and I are both very INsensitive to pain. But when my son was

just a baby, he would cry for hours. Now he rarely cries. But when I

removed all the bad foods, after about a year his normal pain

threshold re-developed. But at first it was overreactive, he would

cry at every little thing, probably because it felt so new and

different for him to feel pain again. But now he feels pain like a

typical kid, at least so far as I can observe. This is nice, because

he would fall and hurt himself badly, but not seem to notice, and I

would be giving him his bath at night and find some nasty injuries

that I never knew happened. But now if he gets hurt, he cries, so

that is good from my perspective.

Also, I have heard that some kids are tactile defensive and pain

sensitive because of heavy metals issues. This can also be sid, which

can also be a metals issue. Have you ever had your child's metals

tested? You might want to consider that. I have never done it for my

son, but maybe someone else here can give you information on that.

But here is my chelation section, you can read more info here.

http://home.pacbell.net/cscomp/parentin.htm#chelation

[PS to , thanks for that group, I will add it to my site.]

> For as long as I can remember, my son has been hypersensitive to

pain.

> He always seems to have an over-the-top reaction to the least little

> thing. Does anyone else have this problem? Have you found anything

that

> seems to ameliorate the symptoms?

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

My son (age 10) is also hypersensitive to pain. It has diminished a lot as

he got older but when he was young it was nearly impossible. The slightest

bump or tap would send him screaming in agony. This was a huge problem for

us since living in NYC it was hard to avoid crowds and the occasional

unintentional bump. I believe the hypersensitivity was/is connected to

mercury toxicity (we are chelating now). The GF/CF diet helped (now on

enzymes and haven't seen any increase in sensitivity) also my son takes

many supplements (24!!). I don't know exactly which ones are responsible

for the pain reduction but I think there is a connection. Pat

>OT: Hypersensitivity to Pain

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>For as long as I can remember, my son has been hypersensitive to pain.

>He always seems to have an over-the-top reaction to the least little

>thing. Does anyone else have this problem? Have you found anything that

>seems to ameliorate the symptoms?

[Guest guest]

I think and Dana hit it right on the head. This sounds like a

SID (sensory integration dysfunction) to me too. Logan was VERY VERY

sensitive, but we did brushing and deep pressure techniques and it

went away the day we started them.

> > For as long as I can remember, my son has been hypersensitive to

> pain.

> > He always seems to have an over-the-top reaction to the least

little

> > thing. Does anyone else have this problem? Have you found

anything

> that

> > seems to ameliorate the symptoms?

[Guest guest]

>>also my son takes many supplements (24!!).

Wow, Pat, that is great your child is doing so well. 24 supplement?!

I know, I was getting up to that number too. We give 5 now and it's

great. Maybe afterwhile all that won't be necessary either. It was

interesting what Lynn said about how after awhile of getting

nurishment from the food, the supplements were causing reactions

whereas in the beginning the seemed to help. I have heard a few other

people say that as well. Maybe it takes a little for the gut to heal

and then the system is working better without all the extra stuff. My

boys still take low doses of 2 meds and maybe they can stop that as

well.

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