I am posting again with some updates. My 17-month year old boy was diagnosed clinically for Lyme and had six markers on his WB test. He has been taking antibiotics for about 2.5 months. About two weeks ago his symptoms of stimming, which had mostly subsided for teh past 1.5 months, reappeared in a strong way. Our LLMD took him off the medicine for about 5 days, and now has recommended to put him back on, but he is still stimming - walking back and forth, hitting objects back and forth, etc.
Our fear is that he may have autism, although his eye contact and socialness is pretty good. We have had him evaluated many times for autism and the doctors alway give him a mixed diagnosis. Could be autism, but might not be.
Anyway, does anyone have any thoughts to keep us from dispair? Could it be the Lyme rearing its head, or are we just fooling oursleves and it really is autism? I know no one can say for sure, but I'm open to people's thoughts based on their expereicnecs...
Posted by Razzle (Member # 30398) on :
Suggest you look up Dr. Amy Yasko and read some of her materials on Autism. Lyme can disable the methylation cycle and lead to all sorts of problems that may mimic autistic behaviors. Dr. Yasko's protocol can help with compensating for this before it gets out of control.
Posted by lpkayak (Member # 5230) on :