motrin junkies

[smartyjones]

in the beginning of the month, doc thought EBV was back to bother ds. he is now on a homeopathic treatment for it - also just began another one for another virus. this doc has not led us astray before - so I'm stickin' with him. homeopathics can sometimes cause herx-like reactions.

 

since nothing exists in a vacuum to make things easy for me to know what is what -- ds has also been having many complaints this semester about school being boring and not challenging. he does have 2E issues so this is valid concern, not just normal 9 yo boy.

 

last week, he ripped up easy math work. also, got in trouble with sub for fidgeting -- 2 other teachers said was unfair for him, they know him and said was sub's fault. he worked through frustration with that well.

 

today, he was engrossed in his own book and wouldn't do work, resulted in him throwing a chair - have not seen that in a long time. I think it's likely he was so engrossed in book(lord of the rings -- I think his brain was off with the hobbits) that he missed the first couple of redirects and probably 'came to' when she was already frustrated and speaking sharply.

 

symptoms for him can be over-involvement in books and quick reaction to panic/violence.

 

I am not really seeing troublesome symptoms at home. I want to give him a dose of motrin in am for school- just as a cover if it is that a bit in a herx and showing up as having trouble dealing in a stressful environment.

if that is the only dose, how long do you think I can give it? how about 2/day?

 

thanks!

Edited February 27, 2014 by smartyjones

[pr40]

one of Pandas drs suggested we give our dd9 (55 pounds at the time) 100 mg twice a day. we thought that to be too much and give only 100 mg and not every day either. I heard that if you go more than that you got to monitor liver. then there is that more recent warning about heart. i don't know if these warnings are across the board or not.

we give 100mg often to both kids, sometimes everyday. when they are better, we stop. so far we did not see any bad effects. we give it after breakfast.

[rowingmom]

If you are going natural why don't you try Japanese knotweed or kudzu as an antiinflammatory. DD does really well with 1/4 - 1/2 tsp Japanese knotweed 3x daily. You can use tincture or organic dried herb. WoodLandEssence carries the tinctures, 1stChineseHerbs the powdered herb.

 

DD has been on this dose for 1.5 years now and has had no liver enzyme problems.

Edited February 28, 2014 by rowingmom

[qannie47]

My doc told me that I could safely use suggested dose, 2x a day for my ds, age 8 for up to 2 weeks without worrying about the liver. But what about curcumin? I myself keep meaning to buy it. Has anybody found it to be a good substitute for motrin? There has been lots of reference to it on this board.

Edited February 28, 2014 by qannie47

[rowingmom]

Curcumin is not absorbed very well, so a liposomal brand would be good. Longvida ($$$) or meriva (Source Naturals, Thorne). This worked well to get DD out of the ticcing mess caused by GSE. I think the autism boards suggest liposomal forms as well (Enhansa).

Edited February 28, 2014 by rowingmom

[3bmom]

Rowingmom, Did you use both the knotweed and Longvida together?

I thought we were close to baseline with personality, we do need focus med Intuniv which wasn't a problem till flare at age 11.

 

In November we took prescription 600mg for impacted wisdom teeth and saw the laughing easy going child from 9 years ago. Besides tugging at my heart it made me realize we are not there yet.

[rowingmom]

We are using knotweed 3x daily and meriva 2x daily (morning and evening).