I'm at my wits end! A long vent with lots of mispellings...sorry.

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Short question:

Anyone have any advise on tough love and how to get your kids to eat the food

that will

help him heal? I think I baby my son too much and it's not helping either of us.

Long vent:

My 2 1/2 year old is driving me nuts! This journey of healing his autism seems

impossible- it's like trying to help someone who constantly sabotages your

efforts.

I just want to quit but there is no quitting because living without intervention

is far worse.

It's like a ride we can't get off of. I feel really depressed today. Right now I

just want to sell

the house, find the best DAN! doc and say heal him or better yet say " take this

kid and call

me when he's better "

Our issue is food and yeast. He is GFCF. soy, corn, nut egg, blah blah blah

free. So we are

left with rice milk, rice bread, potatoes, meat, broccollli, carrots, pear. In

the last few

months he has started craving carbs and is now starting to refuse meat. He has

become

very yeasty, so that means he is spacy, weak, skinny, hyper , unfocused and has

major

brain fog.

The last month was actually scary as I watched him starting to lose language. He

would

want to ask for something and not be able to come up with the words he

previously had

no problem with. He would just start to cry in frustration and then have a

temper tantrum.

He never really tantrumed before yeast set in. So I put him on a round of

diflucan, it

worked right away and we suddenly had eye contact back and sleeping through the

night

again and less tantrums. But all this is useless until I can get him to eat the

right foods

that don't cause yeast in the first place. Plus, the darn diflucan seems to

decrease his

appetite.Here is our morning so far:Wakes up happy and pretty refreshed. He is

hungry

and has a cup of rice milk with enzymes and I offer delicous

apple sausage ( He does great on protein). He won't eat it, turkey bacon-won't

eat it. I try

and trick him: let him watch and try to sneak tiny bites in his mouth,

won't eat.

Ends up nibbling on rice cereal, raisons and is now laying in front of the t.v.

without any

energy. It's a beautiful spring day, I would love to go out and have family time

doing

something fun-instead I'm left with a crabby, hypoglycemic, weak, spacy kid, who

doesn't

feel right and can't do much of anything. It becomes a prison for me too, there

goes the

morning. I usually don't have such a bad attitude but I " m tired and want a

normal life

back.

AARRGH!

The only option I think will help is maybe ALA to help clear food sensitivites.

Hoping to try

it in June, when I'm on maternity leave but I am also due with a new baby then.

We'll see if

I can pull it all off.

Dani