To Allison (Ad Ccl)

[brett]

Hi, I just read another post you wrote to momonamission, I could not believe how your son's story is so similar to my son's, it is truly scary. My son also has been talking about how horrible he is at everything, so down on himself, so hard on himself, crying and beating himself up over stinking at all sports and stupid in school. While he has always been perfectionistic, it is as though he has gone off the deep end. He also had tons of ear infections/viruses/colds as a child, at one point was placed on augmenten for 3 months to keep the infections away, all under the age of 2, including pneumonia at 4 months old. Reading your posts made me remember that my son was allergic to his formulas as a baby, we took him off milk based formula, put him on soy, he was allergic to that too, we then gave him nutramagen (sp?) which was that special expensive formula. The coughing/throat clearing as a young child that would come and go. Then hand movements this time around that started it all, the waking up at night, restless, no good at things, etc. Should I put my son back on the antibiotics? He had only taken one week worth of amoxicillin and then the dr. said take him off since his strep titers were normal. I still have 2 weeks worth left that I could use. I just don't know. Also the ADHD behavior, lack of focus, deterioration of handwriting, emotional lability, you just described exactly my son when all of this exploded 2 and a half weeks ago. It is unreal to me that these are almost identical. Brett

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Hi Brett,

 

Wow our stories are so similar. Only have a second to write - my gut reaction is yes he should be on antibiotics to get to any possible infection. I do wonder if amoxycillin is not the right one for him though - as was Ronna's experience. I think that if the antibiotic is working then by the 72 hour mark you should see marked improvement as we saw with our son. Is your doctor open to humouring you and trying another antibiotic? Perhaps if you go to him with the new info you have from my experience and Ronna's experience he might be more willing. That is what I did with my doctor, as he no longer wanted to give the antibiotics as there were no signs of active strep - but I convinced him with the info I had.

 

Good Luck.