Guest guest Posted February 25, 2007 Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 Hello all - This post made me finally brave enough to ask - Has anyone here actually had a child cured - really cured - by removing metals and accompanying treatments? My 10 year old was normal until just past 5. I am convinced it was mostly caused by mercury. We started chelating around 5 1/2 months ago and had nice progress, but I am afraid to hope for her to return to her former self. Does that actually happen ever, really, or just improvements? Patty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 25, 2007 Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 Well, for us it's hard to say " return to normal " because my son is four and we are not sure what his " normal " would have been without metal poisoning. But what I can say..is that he has done 18 rounds and with each round we have seen improvements. Some huge, and some tiny. Before I began biomed and chelation...we thought and the doc thought he had PPD-NOS. He definitely didn't act like a normal kid. Now he is normal. Far better than anything we hoped for. We are planning to do his follow up hair test this spring..but I am pleased with how he is now. We actually for the first time ever were able to go to a movie. And we can now go to stores and restaurants without fear of how he will act up, or flip out, etc. In my book..I would say he is cured. No signs of PDD now says the doc. > > Hello all - > > This post made me finally brave enough to ask - Has anyone here > actually had a child cured - really cured - by removing metals and > accompanying treatments? > > My 10 year old was normal until just past 5. I am convinced it was > mostly caused by mercury. We started chelating around 5 1/2 months > ago and had nice progress, but I am afraid to hope for her to return > to her former self. Does that actually happen ever, really, or just > improvements? > > Patty > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 25, 2007 Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 > > Hello all - > > This post made me finally brave enough to ask - Has anyone here > actually had a child cured - really cured - by removing metals and > accompanying treatments? > > My 10 year old was normal until just past 5. I am convinced it was > mostly caused by mercury. We started chelating around 5 1/2 months > ago and had nice progress, but I am afraid to hope for her to return > to her former self. Does that actually happen ever, really, or just > improvements? > > Patty > http://www.latitudes.org/articles/lenny_story.pdf Charlie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 25, 2007 Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 > This post made me finally brave enough to ask - Has anyone here > actually had a child cured - really cured - by removing metals and > accompanying treatments? I feel like I should do some kind of superstitious hex-dance before saying this, but I think my son is just about there. I wish I had a clearer sense of what normal looks like, because at this point I'll be wondering whether something is a biomed issue and it keeps turning out to be a regular 8 yo boy issue. Nell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 25, 2007 Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 Patty, You may already be familiar with this site, but I thought I'd share it anyway. http://www.autism-recoveredchildren.org/ In my opinion, even if a child makes a full recovery, I'm not sure they'll ever return to their former self. The path to recovery is often long, often difficult. Parents change. Other siblings change. I'm sure that the path to recovery changes the child too. I don't believe this to be a bad thing--in fact, if a child does make a full recovery it may be a very good thing--but I don't think any of us will ever go back to exactly what we were before. I'm happy to hear that your seeing improvements in your daughter :-) Anita > > Hello all - > > This post made me finally brave enough to ask - Has anyone here > actually had a child cured - really cured - by removing metals and > accompanying treatments? > > My 10 year old was normal until just past 5. I am convinced it was > mostly caused by mercury. We started chelating around 5 1/2 months > ago and had nice progress, but I am afraid to hope for her to return > to her former self. Does that actually happen ever, really, or just > improvements? > > Patty > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 25, 2007 Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 I feel I should do the superstition dance as well. My son is not seen as cured by the school (he just turned 6 and in kindergarten) but we really think of him as almost there. He shares a para with another child, but is learning all of the material presented and can read and write and understands what he reads. Recently, we had this conversation - wait, I would like to preface it by saying he never called me mom until he was almost 4, was essentially nonverbal until 4, a headbanger, perseverated, self stimulatory, but he could have relationships(which are his hardest thing now, with other kids, they scare him) and decent attention span - if interested. Anyway, in school that very day they learned about fractions (kindergarten!) and we had this exchange: Him: Can I have another peice of pizza? Me: Your brother wants one too and there is one left..what should we do? Him: Split it! Me: And then... Him: He would have on and I would have one. Me: And it would be called.... Him: A HALF! He has had biomed for 2 years, GFCF for close to two years, 20 rounds of ALA chelation and NCD. We still have issues, stimmy (yeast) but they are truly minor at this point. I credit mostly biomedical intervention and chelation and I completely expect full recovery. Liz > > Hello all - > > This post made me finally brave enough to ask - Has anyone here > actually had a child cured - really cured - by removing metals and > accompanying treatments? > > My 10 year old was normal until just past 5. I am convinced it was > mostly caused by mercury. We started chelating around 5 1/2 months > ago and had nice progress, but I am afraid to hope for her to return > to her former self. Does that actually happen ever, really, or just > improvements? > > Patty > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 26, 2007 Report Share Posted February 26, 2007 > > How long did you do biomed before your child progressed so much? I started biomed (Feingold diet and Houston enzymes) when he was 4.5. Chelation when he was 5. I saw terrific improvements with both of those, but it was kind of like glimpses of what could be. The improvements didn't stick at all and it was a dramatic roller coaster of days of nearly being OK to regression all the way back. > And how affected was he before you started. He was dx'd with Asperger's and PDD. He was very verbal so that was a big hurdle we didn't have to get over. His main behavioral issues were rage, social impairment (not much eye contact, generally hated people and refused to talk to anyone outside the family, no friends), fine motor delay, couldn't play with toys, no pretend play, pretty dramatic clumsiness and balance problems, suicidal ideation, violence and aggression, sometims hyper and sometimes lethargic. At least that's off the top of my head. > A lot of people have children that are only mildly affected to begin with and improvements show up so much more easily. Generally speaking, but not always, a less-affected kid improves more quickly. Generally speaking, but not always, a younger kid improves more quickly. There are plenty of exceptions, and a lot depends on how the particular kid is affected biochemically, and some depends on what the parents are willing/able to do (i.e. nighttime doses, diets, school options). > I am just curious how much a moderately affected child somewhat verbal child could make from age 7 for one year if we did the chelation with the DMSA. In n's case, it took longterm diet (Feingold, plus some other more temporary exclusions) and enzymes, plus Andy's chelation, plus many different antiviral treatments, plus a fair mount of supplement tinkering. Three years plus and still doing them, but hope to be done this summer. There are some kids who need more interventions, and some who've recovered with much less. The trial-and-error aspect of treating your kid can't be overemphasized -- you have to watch for other kids who have issues similar to yours, and try what works for them. At least that was my m.o. Nell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 26, 2007 Report Share Posted February 26, 2007 > This post made me finally brave enough to ask - Has anyone here > actually had a child cured - really cured - by removing metals and > accompanying treatments? My son is almost finished with biomedical. He is still not age-appropriate tho, because he was severe, low functioning when I started. He has a lot of ground to catch up. > My 10 year old was normal until just past 5. I am convinced it was > mostly caused by mercury. We started chelating around 5 1/2 months > ago and had nice progress, but I am afraid to hope for her to return > to her former self. Does that actually happen ever, really, or just > improvements? I don't want my son to " return to his former self " , because he is not a regressive child. He was autistic from birth. He is no longer autistic, just not yet age appropriate. For my son, chelation was one of the first steps. After chelation was finished, he needed a lot of other biomedical interventions to correct the problems that were caused by the mercury. Dana Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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