MOMandDAD

Chemar, thanks for the reply. Can you tell me where the needles are placed for acupuncture? I just want to know if it's all over or just in a certain area, thanks so much!

Thanks Jeff, have you done any allergy treatments as well? NAET sounds very promising I think I'm gonna look into that a little bit more.

Thanks Janey, did you buy the Taurine already? The only ones I saw out there were capsules, I guess we would have to open it up and put half of it in something because each capsule is 500mg.

Hi Patty, thank you so much for the advice. I will definitely try the acupressure first, I wanted to ask you if your son is now tic free since you've started all his treatments with Acupuncture, NAET and Chiro. Also when you started with acupuncture where did they place the needles? I'm really hoping and praying that I can find something that will work for my son. I'm so thankful for this forum and all the information. It's hard to believe that we are in the year 2007 and still have no cure for this type of illness. Anyway I'm glad you have found some relief for your son, and thanks again for the advice...

Hi Chemar, I've been reading your posts and I am so happy for your son....I would like to ask you if acupuncture helped stop the tics? And also if you've tried Cranial Sacral Therapy? I take my son to a chiro but all he does is crack his neck and back bones, he doesn't do anything else! Can I ask what kind of adjustments your chiro does for your son? I'm thinking of taking him to acupuncture but wanted to ask if that helps at all with the tics, thanks so much!

Carolyn N. Hi thanks so much for the advice, I wanted to ask you about the NAET treatments, is that an alternative to allergy shots? meaning if you treat with NAET for allergies does that mean there's no need to do any allergy shots? I was looking at the NAET website and found a few around my area, I will definitely look into this and hope that they can help. Thanks so much for your help, and have a great vacation, I hope your son does great there. Oh just one tip, my enviro doctor advised me to stay away form any kind of hotdogs as it is full of really bad preservatives such as nitrate. Since you're going camping thought I would let u know, thanks again! MomandDad (Catherine)

Hi Caryn, Thanks for the advice, we also stopped giving him anything that had any artificial color or preservatives, but so far no improvement. It gets a little frustrating because I want so bad to find the cause of it but it's like nothing seems to work right now. But hopefully I'll be able to figure it out, with a little more investigating. Thanks again...

Hi Janey, Thanks for the reply, I was also thinking of starting my son on Taurine, I think I read somewhere not sure if it was this forum or another that they were giving their son 500mg of Taurine, I was going to go out today and pick some up at GNC I will ask how much to give a child who's 8 and 10, will let you know as soon as i can. I'm so glad your son is doing well, I will try to eliminate electronics as well. He also seems to do it alot while he's eating, so I'm not sure what that's all about.....but thanks again for the reply, hopefully we can all fight through this....

Hello, I've been reading through the forum to get some advice for my 9 year old son. First I would like to point out that he's always had a stuttering issue since he was little, he would get so excited about what he wants to say that his words doesn't all come out clearly. He's had the heavy blinking on and off now for years, but last nov. at a birthday party i noticed he started shaking his head! I had no idea what tics were at the time so I took him in to our pediatrician who told me that it was a tic. She said it would go away and not to pay any attention to it. So that's what we did, a week later the head shaking was gone. But then just 5 weeks ago we went to another birthday party, and sure enough the head shaking came back again! This time it seems a lot stronger than last time. It's really strange because there wasn't anything at the party that he doesn't usually eat, I'm thinking it could be the excitement of it. Anyway here I am, it's really hard for me to look at him without tearing, I keep hoping I'll wake up one morning and this was all just a bad dream! I've read through this forum and followed some advice, I started him on Calm Mag, fish oil and epsom baths...(tried b-complex but had a bad reaction) but nothing seems to help so far. I've taken him to get an allergy test and showed sensitivity to wheat, milk, oats, nuts, grass, dust mites and dog dander. I started eliminating all the food sensitivities he has, it's been 3 weeks and still no change. We started seeing an enviromental doctor who will start his allergy drops next week, and has also recommended doing an alternative diet. I also started taking him to the chiropractor, he's had 3 sessions so far but I haven't seen any improvement in him at all. I would like to know if there's anything I missed? Is there anything else I can try? He starts school in the middle of August and I'm so desperate to help him as I know how mean kids and sometimes adults can be! None of us wants our kids to get teased in school. If anyone has any advice please let me know, thanks so much in advance...