Re: EFA's & trouble sleeping

[Guest guest]

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my 4 1/2 yr old son has been on proefa since nov 29th. His only problem is

verbal apraxia. The first day on them I noticed that he was extremely hyper.

He continues to be hyper so much that my daughter who is 16 is begging me to

take him off of the efa's. So far we have not noticed any positive results.

I'm going to talk to his speech teacher this week (she does not know he is on

efa's) and ask her if she has seen any improvement in his speech. I have

been trying to keep him on them to see if anything happens, but since i have

no doubt that they are causing him to be hyper i will probably take him off

of them soon.

[Guest guest]

I know that it has probably been said 1000 times where to purchase efalex,

but would someone please tell me again. Im willing to try something else on

my son. Is there any side effects from the efalex that some have experienced

that I should be aware of.

thanks

[Guest guest]

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I have a son who gets the same on ProEFA but does great on Efalex. Have you

tried that or thought about it?

>From: jal6262@...

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>Subject: Re: [ ] EFA's & trouble sleeping

>Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 02:08:06 EST

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>my 4 1/2 yr old son has been on proefa since nov 29th. His only problem is

>verbal apraxia. The first day on them I noticed that he was extremely

>hyper.

>He continues to be hyper so much that my daughter who is 16 is begging me

>to

>take him off of the efa's. So far we have not noticed any positive

>results.

>I'm going to talk to his speech teacher this week (she does not know he is

>on

>efa's) and ask her if she has seen any improvement in his speech. I have

>been trying to keep him on them to see if anything happens, but since i

>have

>no doubt that they are causing him to be hyper i will probably take him off

>of them soon.

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[Guest guest]

My son has been on Pro-EFA since October. I have noticed great

improvements with speech and ccordination.

Over the holiday break he was off it for 2 weeks due to a stomach

virus. I did not notice any regression. Interestingly he did take

long naps in the afternoons. Now this could have been because of the

holiday excitement and he wasn't feeling 100%.

I'll tell you this since he is back on this past week I haven't seen

any major improvements in his speech (although when I sneezed today

he said Ga bless Mommy which was a first)!

Back to my point, he has been napping very little all week. Maybe a

45 minute catnap in the car at most. And going strong at 9:00PM,

which before the holidays this was unheard of. No nap meant bedtime

at 7:00PM! Happy days are gone for Mom if this keeps up!

So in his case, he is not more hyper if anything more alert and more

aware of what is going on around him which is making him more active.

For us that is a good thing. The more stimulated he is the more

language we get from him.

You could certainly try another EFA like Efalax or maybe go every

other day with Pro-EFA and see if that helps.

Good luck and let us know how you make out as this is always an

interesting topic.

Mom to 3.6 and 23 months

[Guest guest]

I just wanted to say that I have adjusted the time that I was giving the

EFA's ( we are doing Omega 3's only right now) and since 3 days ago- Chris

is back to a normal sleep schedule. I can't help but think the EFA's had

something to do with the night waking because at that time I was giving it

to him around 6:30pm

Stacey