Olive leaf extract - can that increase tics?

[TessaKrista]

A few days ago, I started ds9 on some olive leaf extract, along with BioK probiotics, one tsp of oregano honey, and raw garlic...plus...matcha green tea smoothy that had frozen bananas and rice milk plus almond milk...and right after giving him the olive leaf extract, his tics increase like crazy, with a new thing... a head bob back and forth. The whole thing lasts an hour, and then throughout the day, the head thing continues, but not every 2 seconds, like when he initially got the OLE, but every 20 seconds.

 

Is it yeast in the gut leaving, or is it that the OLE is not a good thing? Could it be that the OLE and the Oregano honey together bring out more tics?

 

I didn't give him any today, and his tics had decreased to one mouth stretch every hour, which is really phenomenal considering what we have been seeing lately.

 

Made homemade lemonade later on in the day today, and used the oregano honey to sweeten, and he started having little tics again, but not the big head bobbing that happened with the OLE. Looks like the honey, or the oregano part of it, increased the tics...or it could just be the lemon.

 

The olive leaf extract is pretty shocking though. Wondering if anyone else has had this reaction.

 

Is this also considered herxing, or something else?

 

Looked at the rice milk and almond milk ingredients and they have carageenan (sp?) which is in the MSG family. Could be a combination of things. Wondering...

Edited July 6, 2012 by Sweet Cheeks Mom