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Dear

My daughter is five years old, med free, and started the diet in May of this

year. We have had some ups and downs with the diet, all of which could have

been avoided, I

am sure. However, we are still doing it and it is working, AND I AM LEARNING.

This group is a wonderful resource for parents. Especially those who do not

have a keto team that is really teaching them the " hows " and " whys " of the diet.

is delayed, and basically had not moved much forward for almost three

years, since the seizuring began. She is moving ahead slowly now that she is

not seizuring. This is a wonderful " side effect " of the diet - restoration of

alertness, and often cognitive skills return or move ahead.

She often would only seizure once a week or less, but would have a bad week of

seizures each month. It was like clockwork. One week was a mess, the rest were

okay. She no longer has those nasty weeks, though she does have a seizure here

and there.

I am hoping for complete seizure control with keto. Meds only escalated her

seizures.

You must be getting anxious. The flip side is that JHopkins KNOWS the diet and

will teach you what you need to know. It will be great. I was taught nothing,

really. All " keto centers " are not created equally! , mum to

Stettz catatao@...> wrote:

Hi ,

Thanks for the Atkins group info. I will definitely subscribe and look into the

specifics further. The folks at Hopkins offered me both the Atkins study and

the ketogenic diet, but I opted for the ketogenic route after reading Dr.

Freeman's book. My reasoning was that the ketogenic diet has a proven track

record, Atkins does not. However, I realize that may be a good option at some

point.

Do you have any direct experience with Atkins your daughter? Has the keto diet

worked well for her?

Thanks,

Re: Heavy cream

Bill,

Lately, the only thing we could think of was that about the same time we

saw

an increase in seizures was the time we changed creams. We have used

thesame brand for years and have been fine. All of the sudden, these

seizures

started happening daily and we thought it might be the probiotics or the

cream.

We stopped the probiotics and the seizures have slowed down but not

completely. Now, I'm going back to the old cream. All of this has

happened since the

constipation issues in July. We just can't get him back on track. Its

sooooooooo frustrating. You would think after 3 years on this diet, the

fine

tuning would be over. Not so.

Thanks for your help