g. LDN Update

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Hello Dr. JM and Listmates,

forgive me for taking so long between updates. (age 5 years asd) has been

on LDN since August of this year using Coastal Compounding's RX. We started him

at one line saw great things, gradually moved to two lines, saw bad behaviors,

backed it back down to one line for a long time, continued to see good things

all of which I logged in the files.

Over the last month we had worked back up to two lines on the syringe and

was doing well but had up and down little viral sniffles, coughs etc. but no bad

behaviors like we'd seen when I'd tried to increase before, but, also no more

real improvements either.

I took to heart what Anagram wrote about maybe we were stirring things up and

should go for the full dose and then Dr. JM also mentioned this in an email

response too.

So a week ago we jumped from two lines to the full dose and it has been

remarkable here. No bad behaviors, increase in beautiful sustained eye

contact, more abstract speech interactions. Increase in intonations and volume,

i.e.: when asked to go get his brother for lunch raised his voice and

yelled his brother's name and said " time for lunch " instead of meandering along

to the next room to find him. Seems to be more " intune " with his siblings as

far as joking around and giggling at things he over hears them talking about

instead of not participating unless directly prompted for engagement. Only

other thing I saw that should be noted is the re-appearance of some spots that

looked like chicken pox on 's torso. We saw this when we first started LDN

then they went away. These did not bother at all, he had about 10 of them

they had raised heads and scabbed over. Very interesting.

His social skills class teacher told me on Wednesday last week that my son's

improvement since starting the class 16 weeks ago, was nothing short of

remarkable! She said he went from a being a squirmy unfocused child to

attentive, interactive and usually the first one to raise his hand to answer

questions in group time. On the last day of the session for the 16 weeks they

set up stations of games and activities for the kids and watched their

interactions. She said went from activity to activity waited his turn and

played well and with other children, she said though he did not ask to

participate he would go up to the child or children at the station and would

wait until there was a toy available or a place in the game then reach in to

take a turn or get a toy then played with the group. Something he would not

have done previously. He would have just gone over and taken whatever he wanted

without regard as to what another child was doing.

So good things are happening and I'm thrilled.

Gouker

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