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All 3 Doing Well

Ewen: 500mg Zithromax 3x a week, less than 1/4 Clonodine, 1.5mg melatonin, Vitamin D3, probiotics, magnesium, fish oil, 16mg Prozac

8-year-old sister: 3mg Zithromax daily, magnesium, half an Oncolplex (broccoli sprouts supplement), 1mg melatonin, magnesium, iron, D3, probiotics

14-year-old sister - 250 mg Zithromax daily, magnesium, Oncolplex, 1.5 mg melatonin, magnesium,  probiotics, D3, fish oil, 20mg Prozac

Ewen and his 8 -year-old sister are both doing really well now. My youngest has her energy back, no longer says "I fee bad!" all day long...in fact she never says it at all. She sleeps through the night more often and is much happier. She is still a grump, but in normal portions with lots of happiness and giggles in between the grumps. She is back to some kind of normal.

The story here though is my 14-year-daughter with autism. We started out giving her pretty massive doses of Zithromax and it was just too much for her. She got very emotional and exhausted too. So we cut it down to 250 and that seemed to help her not be so tired. She has been doing really well these past 3 days and I hope this sticks. She has Girls Rock Band camp in a couple of weeks and I really want her to be able to go all day long and not have to come home after just a couple of hours like she did last year.

She went back to school today. I picked her up after lunch but I am hoping that soon she will be able to go back to a full day for the last two weeks of school.

It is so odd that Zithromax is helping all 3 of them. It is really strange and worrisome that they need to be on strong long term antibiotics. But I have so much gratitude that there is help.

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