Frequency of BMs

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This is as brief of a history as I can give you to help you answer my question

about my son's ability to have BMs.

The birth of my son was difficult. He was huge. I also had a RhoGam shot while

he was in utero and then another immediately thereafter. As you all know RhoGam

is high in mercury content. I did breast feed him. He had a lot of spit up as a

baby (more than I would expect) and he was colicky.

My son was diagnosed with sensory integration disorder in preschool, borderline

Aspergers in Elementary School, and OCD around age 7 (now dormant). He has a

high IQ.

He had a major 6-week mono-like episode (but it wasn't mono) around age 4.5. The

blood work (weekly) only showed a virus that the ped said he should have been

able to fight, but he never got a fever. After six weeks of 18 hours (on

average) of sleep per day, and behavior getting weird (that last week it was

more manic-depressive than just sleeping), I decided to try Essiac (FlorEssence

version) on him based on mom gut intuition.

I gave it to him one night and each morning and night thereafter for a bit of

time. After the first evening dose, he woke up the next morning with a nice

fever! Hurray! He slept only an extra hour that day and acted normal instead of

funked out. Ditto the next day with fever still. The 3rd day, no fever and

totally normal and happy except the extra hour of sleep still. But, way better

than an extra 6 hours of sleep.

The ped was amazed and asked me what I did. Etc. I got permission and a

recommendation from the ped to take him to a holistic M.D. to try and shave off

that remaining hour of sleep.

Holistic M.D. said it was the milk and he was constipated. Toxic. So, that's why

all of the sleep. Somehow the Essiac (FlorEssence) got him jump-started,

probably by stimulating the liver (I think that's what he said).

Herbals were given and we followed the protocol of no dairy and other things.

Three months later, he was doing better so we stopped seeing the holistic M.D.

and stopped talking all of the herbals. We were tired of it and the holistic doc

was kind of not wanting us to stop seeing him, though.

We moved to another state and lots happened. But, fast forward to this year.

We noticed accidentally around age 8 or 9 (I can't remember which) that he

seemed ok with milk (didn't have the major gasiness from it or bloated stomach

anymore whereas he did have it earlier). This coincidentally was around the time

that he had completed about 2 years of using a product for his OCD (that

eventually went " dormant " ) called NerveTonic. NerveTonic has 3 biochemic mineral

salts and was excellent at stopping him from " counting " things. It has these

three ingredients: Ferrum Phosphoricum, Kalium Phosphate, and Magnesium

Phospate. He also was taking Digestive Tonic about the same time, but that was

gradually tapered off. Those ingredients were: Kalium Phosphate, Natrium

Phosphate, and Calcium Phosphate.

He stayed pretty stable from about age 9-11 without any sort of food

modifications or limitations. No vitamins and no supplements. No OCD counting,

although I did have a hypnotist work on his habit of tapping (not counting)

every syllable you would say (at least he wasn't counting every syllable you

said like he did when he was 7). The hypnotist undid the tapping stuff and it's

never come back.

My son is 12 now. At the beginning of 2009 when he was still 11, he had another

one of those " sleep funks " that felt AWFULLY familiar to me .... like the

" mono-like " illness one that went on for 6 weeks when he was age 4. He was out

of school for a week. After about 3 days of him sleeping and no other symptoms

except extreme fatigue, I found FlorEssence at our local Whole Foods store and

got him out of his sleep funk within 2-3 days. I continued him on it for about 2

weeks.

We went back to our normal lives eating anything and drinking anything, no

limitations. By late April of this year, it happened again. Sleep funk. Dang it!

So, I brought him into the ped. The ped said to get him off of all dairy and

ordered an xray of his gut. Son was totally " FOC " (full of cr & p) (this is the

ped's acronym, not mine!). My son was backed up as far as you could go. He said

worst case he'd seen.

I did the FlorEssence (doc was fine with that), but he also wanted Miralax. We

did that for some time, but I didn't like that he seemed to need Miralax and for

the rest of his life?

Coincidentally, I found out that I could take Calcium/Magnesium at night to calm

me and help me feel sleepy earlier. I decided to give him some of it because he

was taking 2 mg. of melatonin each night and I thought it would be healthier to

reduce him to 1 mg. of melatonin and use Calcium (w/Mag.) instead. It really

made him go poop, so I decided we'd go off of the Miralax and just use this

serendipitous finding of the Calcium/Magnesium. He also was taking the digestive

tonic again and I started him on Vitamin D (5K iu's a day as a way to improve

immune system and also as a natural chelator) and added in Coromega (Omega3) and

Pearl Acidophilus.

He was doing great for about a month or so. Formed BMs and they were coming out

EVERYDAY. Now, with Miralax he was going everyday, too, which is what the ped

wanted. But, this was healthier and he was having formed stools.

Well, then he degraded to not formed, very goopy stools. Still going everyday

though. We backed off of the digestive tonic thinking that maybe that was making

things goopy. Not sure if that did anything except stop him from going everyday.

So, now he's back to his old habit of going every other day or maybe every 3rd

day, but it's goopy every time.

I also have him on Biotin and Oregano Oil. He is still not eating dairy except I

think his dad sneaks it in occasionally (as a cheese) when he's visiting him.

Anyone have any ideas on what I should do? I really want him going everyday and

want those BM's to be formed again.

Also, his sensory stuff is in regression. He screams in pain when he bumps

himself and he's more clutzy ... like when he was younger. He screams if I

barely, barely brush his hair (he's not brushing it well). Also, he's having

anger issues, probably pre-puberty related, but sometimes they turn into

Asperger-style meltdowns that are quite scary. Over the past 5 years, he would

have 1 a year, but this year I've lost count. Probably one a month on average.

And, that's going back to the beginning of the year when he had his first sleep

funk in a very long time.

I have to think all of this is related somehow. I am wondering if I should just

put him on some sort of digestive Enzyme instead, but I have no idea what and I

find it all VERY confusing when I read about it.

Thanks for reading this rather long post!

Mira

Single/divorced Mom of 2

Younger one has congenital Chiari Malformation Type I

Got my hands full!

p.s. I think his father is also some version of Aspergers, but he's never been

diagnosed. He just fits the profile now that I know what Aspergers is.