Tantrums

[Guest guest]

I've been reading all these posts on tantrums and not thinking too much on

them, but my husband and I took Wiley out to dinner with us tonight and it

was pretty bad. He was screaming and throwing things far enough to hit

other diners and trying to rip the tablecloth off the table and so on. I

finally got him interested in dipping a lollipop in a glass of water. After

crayons and playdough and so on went flying into people's meals. Laughable

after a certain point and I live in Massachusetts and people are just NOT

friendly here to begin with. Just wanted to say I understand and I have the

bruises and teeth marks to prove it. Not angry but feel for the little guy.

It must be so hard to have all of these thoughts and feelings and not have

any way of expressing them except to act out and be further ostracized.

Betsy

[Guest guest]

These could be complex partial seizures, especially if they are unprovoked.

A 24 hr EEG would confirm this. The head banging is probably a symptom of

the chaos going on in her head. My son was put on depakote (pre-Dr. G)

which was a God-send at the time. As you go through the protocol and quiet

the immune system and get viral titers down, this will resolve. Dr.

Goldberg doesn't like using " band-aids " like depakote and we have been able

to wean our son almost completely off depakote.

I could be completely wrong. Just my experience.

Hang in there,

Ellen

tantrums

> Do any of your children ever wake up angry? My daughter, who will be

> starting protocol in January (sorry to be redundant with that but in

> case anyone is unfamiliar with my other posts, I add it in) often

> wakes up and has a tantrum immediately (she also has them during the

> day). While her candida came back negative (it shouldn't have since

> she had thrush as an infant) and many of you have told me your

> children were neg. too, but still had significant fungal problems,

> someone also posted to me that Candida caused irritability and on a

> candida site I also read that symptoms get worse while asleep. Did

> antifungals have an effect on your children's tantruming? Also,

> when my daughter was just beginning to show signs (@18 months) of a

> problem she occasionally would bang her head. She hasn't done this

> in a very long time (she be 4 next month). But since I removed

> gluten approximately a month and a half ago, whenever she gets

> angry, she bangs her head. Have any of you experienced this?? Please

> let me know about your children's tantrums and if they have gotten

> better. This may be the hardest part for me, dealing with the moods.

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> Thanks,

> Jess

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