Healing Regression Question

[Guest guest]

We are on day 12 of Valtrex. I really haven't seen much of anything,

no rash, nothing. A few days ago, he had a really good couple of

days. Yesterday and today he is starting to go downhill.

Question: Is there some improvement sometimes right before the

healing regression? And what day does the healing regression

typically start? I am just trying to figure out if there is something

else going on, or if it is the Valtrex kicking in.

Thanks for your input.

--Kristal in Iowa

[Guest guest]

Hi Kristal,

You'll know what's really going on in time. It differs from child to child.

Typically the

regressive-healing stage comes first and in the middle of the negative looking

symptoms,

you see some gains like improved eye contact or something that the child wasn't

doing

before.

That said, we've seen some kids improve without a healing-regression and in

other cases

we've seen waves of gains mixed in with regressions. Typically, it stabilizes

in the first

two months and you just see gains from there, but again each child is uniquely

effected by

their condition and will uniquely be effected by treatment. Either way, it

sounds like

changes are happening and that seems posative from here. Now you just have do

the

hard part which is wait it out and see what happens.

- Stan

>

> We are on day 12 of Valtrex. I really haven't seen much of anything,

> no rash, nothing. A few days ago, he had a really good couple of

> days. Yesterday and today he is starting to go downhill.

>

> Question: Is there some improvement sometimes right before the

> healing regression? And what day does the healing regression

> typically start? I am just trying to figure out if there is something

> else going on, or if it is the Valtrex kicking in.

>

> Thanks for your input.

>

> --Kristal in Iowa

>