Message from soaphieschoice

[Chemar]

I received this via a PM and I am assuming from the first line that sophieschoice would like me to post it openly....

 

WELCOME SOPHIESCHOICE.

I am so glad you have found solutions here

 

it is with great emotion that i send this message ,i hope it goes somewere that people will read it. i am a great internet surfer but when it comes to typing and emailing i am hopeless.anyway here goes- i live in sydney australia and two months ago or maybe more ,everything has been such a blur,i self diagnosed my eight year old son with tourettes with one dr google search.all my friends and family thought i was insane.'dont be ridiculous, get off the computer!!!,he is divine, georgeous ,clever ,funny ,sensitive; mildly eccentric perhaps

but he doesnt walk around swearing etc.' they all thought i was losing it.im his mum, i know him ,he is part of me, i see more than even his dad. all his adorable little quirks ,things that we loved about him and infuriated us about him started to make sense .the more closely i now looked with my new knowledge , the more tics i saw. finger clicking , pulling of clothes smoothing the homework page, knuckle cracking .i saw a child psychatrist ,an exceptionally highly regarded one ,first, who was marvellous with him and decided that he was reluctant to diagnose him with tourettes as he was successfully flying under the radar as his vocal and motor tics at this stage were not socially 'strange',well for a little boy , even his teacher had not noticed.i knew . he was clever , he was trying to protect us from too much knowledge ,to protect our son , in a way from me . it was too late, i knew too much.it was around now that i had read vague references to food intolerances and heavy metal problems.my son had been a severe asthmatic which he had since grown out of but i knew there were unaddressed intolerances and i organised blood tests and hair analysis; which for my family is seen as quite alternative as i come from a very conventional medical background,mother nurse, father dentist ,brother psychiatrist, one of five children ,nothing ever wrong with any of us.etc.before i got results i discovered these forumsand started printing off information and hilighting things with my little yellow highlighter.back came the blood test results , intolerant to ; wheat ,gluten,corn,msg,aspartamine ,cane sugar yeast oysters tuna,sunset yellow 110 ,;;; then back came the hair sample ,copper through the roof!!!!!!!!!!!every thing i had highlighted except cassein he seemed to register for.

if i had not found you guys here at latitude forums, in particular chemar and claire ,you are so kind and generous in sharing your knowledge, you have saved a small boy whose tics did get worse and he ceased to fly under the radar ,you have saved a family , and a classroom, a football team and a school band. i immediatly introduced a sue dengate style diet and eliminated screens for two weeks; any thing to keep off medication. the effects were virtually immediate.all my children have responded positively,you have changed the course of my life and my sons and i thank you,and i speak for all the other people around the world who have benefited from your generousity and don't email-that is usually me-xxxxx

[sis]

Wow. That made me cry. I hope you all are proud of the change you are making in the world. I also told my sitter who's ten year old was resently diagnosed with ts. I hope she checks out the great knowledge you guys so graciously share.

(hugs) -Sarah