Guest guest Posted January 12, 2009 Report Share Posted January 12, 2009 Hi, we have a 5 yr old girl who is intelligent, inventive, and has a huge sense of humor....but can be challenging, headstrong, and a handful to put it mildly. She has been placed on the autism spectrum... " PDD-NOS " with " Anxiety disorder " and " Mood Disorder " (the anxiety is definitely in my family for generations, but the mood disorder is new to us as is the ASD) She is at a good spot though and her asd is really not noticed much anymore. She seems pretty " typical " now luckily. So, since she was 2 she has been in EI. We have done it all...tons of OT, social therapies, probiotics - high dose, high b6, magnesium, and more. She " woke up " after the probiotics. It was amazing actually. She was on miralax (I know, I am on the mirlax forum too and we regret giving it to her) for a while because of consistent constipation but we figured out that the best probiotics took care of the problem until recently. We went to the doc and he gave us " Sorbitol. " We decided to take a break from the pro-B's cause she has been on them a while, they were not helping the constipation anymore, and they are expensive. (Kirkman's) Well, we cannot figure out what is going on now... because a few different things have changed. She is on Celexa and the doc increased that slowly too recently. She has never really had the " hand flaps " like ASD kids usually have. However, in the past few days she has started hand flapping! What we have gathered from what she has told us is that she flaps when something is too much for her sensory-wise. For instance, if she is eating yogurt and it is cold in her mouth, she flaps because it is cold and flapping her arms makes it better somehow. Very strange. But, since we have never really seen her to the typical autism spectrum arm flaps, we thought we should mention it. (she has also been a bit hyper and irritable at times) There are 4 possibilities that we can think that might be causing this: 1. Increasing the Celexa 2. We stopped her high dose probiotics about 5-6 days ago. 3. She started Sorbitol about 5 days ago for constipation. 4. This is just another stage and her sensory issues are flaring in a new way. THANK YOU! Angi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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