We have had a major awesome turn around with our 14 yo son and want to share
our miracle. We have a sweet loving son back. I posted here in March when
I learned of his allergies and learned much. Thank you all for that. I got
desperate when he stopped cooperating and stumbled into acupuncture and
wanted to share with all of you.



We are foster parents and have had him in our care for 6 years, adopted him
2 years ago, and have seen behaviors slowly improve. Six months ago things
turned UGLY. His entire attitude could be summed up in whatever he wanted,
whenever, and however he should get it! He didn't care who he hurt, etc. We
have had police, run away, suicide notes, shoplifting, and two attempts to
light a fire in our home over the last few months.



He had a delayed reaction, off scale high intolerance to wheat, gluten,
eggs, dairy, peanuts, almonds, and garlic. I have no idea how long he has
been reactive. Because of the delayed reactions it took a long time to
identify the cause and effect. He said he wanted to participate in trying
the diet but continued to sneak things at school etc. We were slowly
finding where he was still getting foods and started closing down paths. We
began to see clear patterns develop. If he got into something at school the
next morning he woke up obnoxious and escalated from there. Since I can't
be with him every second or control his choices and knew it would only get
worse I was desperately looking for other options.



Several people suggested acupuncture. I discussed this with Andy as an
immediate cure that might enable him to return to all foods and got his buy
in. So we went and learned I was only partly right. The rest of this
sounds really hokey if you're not into natural care. She did muscle testing
to see which food group needed help first and cured it without needles. For
the next 24 hours he basically can't even touch what he was treated for but
after that can eat it. He has been treated for eggs and wheat so far.
Only one type of foods may be treated at a time and because he wouldn't help
all appointments had to be after school on Friday so I could monitor
everything.



I finally closed the loopholes he was getting through, not to say he won't
find new ones before we finish the treatments. What I know is he has been
clean for 2 weeks and he is being a total sweetheart. He gives me hugs,
talks nice, his sense of humor is back, and he is fun to be around again. I
freely admit it has only been two weeks but this is a MAJOR celebration.



The bad news is most insurance will not pay for naturopathic care. If your
allopathic doctor will cooperate they can run many of the tests and results
shared. His would not. He claimed no way blood tests and allergies could
help his behavior. Naturally, this is no longer his doctor. In the
interest of time and desperation I paid and let the naturopathic doctor run
the tests to get on with it.



Because of the way each doctor operates I had the best understanding based
on going in the order I did. However, if I was to do it again I would
probably go to the acupuncturist first and have saved hundreds of dollars on
tests and special foods not to mention the hours reading cookbooks and
newsgroups learning how to manage allergies and making everything from
scratch because of the hidden ingredients in so many things. The
acupuncturist is $75 per visit and we will probably need 6 total.