kristen -
I tried to write earlier today but it did not post so I will write again. My son has been on the gf/cf diet since he was 19 months. Everyone including the doctor insisted that he was fine but I am a special education teacher and worked with autism for quite a while. I knew what I was seeing. We started to loose him completely in January - In April we started the diet. In May I took away EVERYTHING that was suspect (corn, soy, eggs, apples, oranges etc. etc.) By mothers day of that same month my son started coming back. By the end of the summer he started speaking. Over the year he grew to have quite the extensive vocabulary but his speech patterns concerned me a great deal. Mostly he used one word and two word sentences. His pronounciation was difficult to understand. With in two rounds of chelation we were able to understand everything he said. He is starting to use 3,4 & 5 word sentences (yesterday he said uh oh! - the car is in trouble!) when his car fell off the table. He is constantly hugging his sister now and starts games with her too! (Come on Samantha - lets go!) BUT......
his emotions are all over the place and he is stimming once in a while. (HE NEVER REALLY DID THESE THINGS BEFORE CHELATION!)This scares me and I was wondering how long it takes for things to calm down. Any ideas?