The meeting with the DAN doctor, a new direction?

It has been nearly 6 months since I first called to schedule an apointment with the doctor we saw today. She is a highly reputable DAN dr, who specializes in pediatrics and was reccomended by my SIL due to her involvement with my newphew. My nephew, who was once Dx as being PDD NOS is now recovered thanks to some of the bio medical treatments Dr Young's prescribes.

I had mega high hopes for this appointment. I caught myself nearly bursting into tears several times today not knowing if she would have some answers to finally help us or not.

Let me just stand back for a moment and stress as well that while I say that, it is also incredibloy important to state that Dylan is actually doing quite well right now. He is excelling in school, getting *drum rool please* STRAIGHT A's, and his behavior while isn't perfect, it has improved tremendously. I credit his psycologist Dr Drewyor's behavioral management skills he has taught me, the meds Dyl is on and Dylan's unwaivering attempts to try and work hard. Dylan is an incredible kid, I couldn't ask for more...and while sometimes I def need a break, I still am overwhelmed at what an amazing kid he is turning out to be.

Today's appt was about the meds. The truth be told, both him and I would love to find a way for him to function without them. Is this possible??? Well after today appt I still don't know that answer, but i am encouraged to say that once again I am in awe of God's timing (you would think by now that I would just learn to always trust,...I'm getting there but not 100% YET ;) )

What I found out was this....after the history was taken, Dr Y came in to talk to us and covered a lot of what the intake nurse did as well as a lot of what I recall her covering when we took Nate (Dylan's next sibling down who has severe ADHD) in to see her.

Basically after all that it came down to this....she cannot help us. The thing that I want, while she knows there are studies and reasearch being done on that specific area (that would be weaning autistic kids off anti psychotics) it just isn't her speciality, but she is looking into going down that road as well. So in that case it just so happens (enter God's timing here) that not 3 days ago she met with another local DAN doctor who specilizes in such things, AND he is currently looking into more of the autism side of this. What I mean by that is that it turns out that this doctor actuallyo started doing his reserch and treatment on adults, specifically adults who suffered from neurological components that require ...you guessed it , anti psychotics, or even in general things such as chronic fatigue, depression and even fibromyalgia (did I spell that right mom? :) )

This is highly intriguing, because just in the last several weeks my Mom who has been Dx at one point in time or another with all of the above, said that there had been evidence discovered recently that autism could be somewhat linked to what she has (again all of the above).

The long story short is, this doctor is using nutritiaonl supplements of some kind to find answers, and Dr Y said from what he said he is seeing great results.

So, with that said, I guess it goes without saying, we are going to see him. She also reccomended a book called

"The Mood Cure"


So far I haven't read it, only because I don't have my greedy little hands on a copy (yet!!) but I will very, very soon.

The Irony of ALLLL of this too is something that I have yet to discuss or mention here, possibly because of time and because i am quite new to this company myself. But I have been thinking for quite some time that some of what I see in myself, my son....and many others I know that suffer *ailments* of various sorts if you will are all technically related to one thing. In a word....diet.

I would lvoe to devulge more on this topic, especially since as I mentioned Dean (Sr.!) and I recently started selling products via a nutritional company that I believe could possibly help Dylan because they carry high B vit's, as well as ammino acids. If you look on the link above for the book you'll see that sort of thing mentioned so I am even more curious to read that now.

In a sense...looking back I can totally see how this could easily be a nutrional issue. While I still think that immunizations play a part as well, I have not for a long time thought it was the sole factor, as it seems others have not either.

But that will have to wait for another day as I am exhausted after today and I have a 4:45am wake up call to goo run with my friends!! :)

I have pictures of Dyl running cross country to share soon, hopefully next week, the last few weeks have been crazy getting ready for my husband to work 2 straight months, and after this weekend (my cousins getting married) things should slow down some...well as much as they can for a family of 10 :)