I think I’ve figured it out… finally…..
I’ve been driving myself nuts trying to figure out what caused his continued regression even after we got his supplements back on track. Then, I had a moment of clarity the other day and it hit me. Dec 11th, we went from MB-12 every 3rd day to every 2nd day. It has been mentioned that the TMG (betaine) in the Brainchild Vitamins will compete with the MB-12. At a lower dose of MB-12, we did not have this issue - and I remember putting back the Brainchild (after I read that you can try adding back the brainchild after you have a baseline on the mb-12 to make sure there was no conflict) - so, at the lower mb-12 dose, there was no problem with the TMG interfering. But, at the higher Mb-12 dose - what we saw was not pretty. I just ordered the Sensitive Brainchild formula (does not contain TMG), so I am hoping that this gives me the results the other formula did. Oh how I wish Brainchild would remove the TMG from the Spectrum II w/ Pak - we had such tremendous success with this supplement. (Trying DRN didn’t work. Nicholas absolutely refused to drink anything with that mixed in no matter how many times I tried.)
This is day 4 of not giving him the brainchild spectrum II w/ pak, while I am waiting for the sensitive formula to arrive tomorrow - and we can already see the differences - and believe me they’re not suttle differences. The MB-12/TMG reaction was not a pretty one, nor one I would like to repeat. At times, he seemed worse than he was when we started down this biomedical path — except now he talks!
Here’s what happened when MB-12 conflicted with the TMG:
- Nicholas couldn’t even play by himself, which for him - was truly unbelievable. He has always been able to play by himself - and all of a sudden he couldn’t - it was like he didn’t know what to do. We actually had to sit with him and guide him through play.
- Don’t get me started on the screaming. All he did was yell, scream - and it was constant - our house became that loud chaos house. He NEVER acted like this before - and to watch this unfold has been frightening. At times, I found myself yelling at him to shut up, which I’m not happy about - but the screaming plays on your nerves something fierce. Several times, I just had to close myself in my office or bathroom to get away from the noise.
- If you looked at him the wrong way or said the wrong thing, temper tantrums followed. Geez, talk about walking on eggshells.
- It was taking us hours to get him to bed at night - hours. (thank goodness we’re back to 10 minutes!)
- Obsessive compulsive behaviors were starting to come out - and we had never really seen this before
- I’ll add more as I think of them….
Keeping my fingers crossed that he gets back to where he was - fast!
