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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I second this reccomendation.  It may be costly but is worth the shot, at least the process of elimination of what works and does not... [/quote]

How costly exactly?  I'm not sure shelling out the money on unproven therapy is the best choice when there are proven therapies we can spend that money on.   For my family, anyway, it's different I suppose for those who are wealthy.[/quote]

This post seems a bit judgemental to those that are willing to unturn any stone (with or without a double blind study to back it up) to help their child achieve results, we do not have money either but the several hundred dollars a month in proven therapies (speech, and less so OT), as well as a few hundred  dollars in supplements/Drs appts/tests  are worth the comfort of knowing that we are diong everything in our power to help our child.  Mind you we drive old cars, eat in, and do not take big vacations... spending more on where we place our priorites and less on the other things.  We are certainly not wealthy!

That said, we have given the supplements 12 months of experimentation, have seen limited results and probably will stop soon only maintaining the fish oil, epsom salt baths, VSL #3, and dmae as that is the most affordable long term.[/quote]

I don't think the poster was trying to be judgmental.  Every family has to try to find the right balance.  For some families, that means leaving no stone unturned.  For others (including us), we resort to conventional medicine/therapies (DS has ADHD, anxiety, and probable learning disabilites - has an IEP but hasn't been labeled as having any particular LD).  For us, while we think about some of those unturned stones, we also try to keep in mind that DS is a child entitled to a normal childhood and that we can't live our life (and his) treating him as a patient or only as the sum total of his challenges to be sent constantly from one appointment/therapy to the next.

I myself take some supplements and DS occasionally takes a children's vitamin.  While I don't see any results personally (in me) from taking supplements, they're inexpensive (especially if purchased at Costco) and it's fine.  But I wouldn't expect DS's ADHD to disappear because he's taking supplements and, having (in retrospect) seen why preschool and early grades were so difficult, we wanted to try to help DS as effectively as possible. Medication, which has been the subject of countless studies, helps in most cases (we did have to experiment to see which medication produced the best results, but even the ones that weren't so good definitely improved things for him in school).

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