Vaccines Were Beginning of Autism - Natural Health Was Beginning of Recovery

When it comes to pinpointing the source of Hannah's autism, the first thing that came to mind were the vaccines.  I have questioned (in retrospect), the fact that 3 weeks after both her first and second Hepatitis B vaccination, she developed wheezing episodes.  She had to use a nebulizer to help her breath.  She didn’t have any breathing problems before that were not related to her prematurity.   

After her third Hepatitis B vaccination on July 20, 2001, (no other vaccine was given) she became real lethargic, slept for an extra 3 to 4 hours a day for several weeks, and became extremely pale and just very sickly looking.  This lasted for months.  In addition, this is the period that the motion sickness started.  We could not travel in the car for more than 15 or 20 minutes without her vomiting.  She had to be medicated with benadryl (Do not know why this works but it does) just to travel to friends and family vomit free.

By the time of her well check appointment on October 31, 2001 she was diagnosed with anemia and was placed on additional iron, even though she was on poly-vi-sol with iron or other supplement with iron from about 1 week old and fortified formula and cereal.  There was no real reason for her anemia.  I know now she was allergic to vitamin C which affected her iron absorption ability.

Other than that she was a very happy and well-adjusted child.  As far as her development, most things she was about in the middle age range (or about average), a few things she was more toward the beginning age range and a few things she was toward the maximum age range.  All in all, her Doctor and I were very pleased with her age appropriateness especially considering her extreme prematurity.  Her milestones were:  turned over at 6.5 months, crawled at 9 months, stood up at 9 months, first step with help 11 months, first step alone 14.5 months, completely walking at 15 months, said first word “cat” 14 months, could count to “10” by 15 months, said first sentence (Echo?) “Oh no – What did you do?” by 18 months.  Could say alphabet by 18 months (probably Echo).

Her next vaccination, I will regret for the rest of my life.  I have many times wished I could have somehow put some of these symptoms together or at least questioned the safety and efficacy or risk factors of some of the vaccinations given before not after.  On Monday, January 21, 2002, Hannah received her MMR vaccination.  By late Wednesday she was screaming and inconsolable.  I kept her on Tylenol for the “fussiness” every 4 hours.  Thursday she had a slight fever which I passed off as “normal slight vaccine reaction”.  Friday she screamed all day.  Hannah NEVER cries. 

She hadn’t eaten much of anything for days maybe 200 calories in cereal.  She was barely drinking anything.  I was really starting to get concerned and even cried in frustration for trying every trick to get her to eat or drink.  It felt like her fever was getting higher in spite of having her on Tylenol non-stop for 4 days. 

I decided to take her temperature.  When I went to remove her clothing, I spotted the rash covering her entire torso which was not present even at her last diapering.  I knew immediately she was having a significant and dangerous vaccine reaction.  As best as I can remember, and am almost 100% certain it was 103.6 or 103.8.  She has never, nor since ever had a fever that high.   

She was acutely ill for almost a week with fever, rash, constant screaming, and insomnia.  But the days of acute illness were much easier to deal with than the ominous days that followed and ended up forever altering our lives. 

Once she started to regain a little more of an appetite, she was now refusing most of the foods she loved.  For a period of several months she literally lived on yogurt, applesauce, bananas, and occasionally she would have some cheerios but would suck on them until they were mush.  She did start to drink a little milk again but probably not more than 6-8 oz a day.  She was day by day literally wasting away.  The anorexia got so bad that I actually put her back on stage 2 baby food.  At least I was able to get into her the calories,  protein and  variety of nutrients that she needed.  Her weight began to stabilize – She really wasn’t gaining but she had stopped losing so much so fast. 

Meanwhile she still was not sleeping well.  This was when the rocking started.  She would spend hours in her crib rocking so hard she would move her crib across the room.  She would do it so hard that she had bruises all down her spine.  She would wake several times a night screaming as if in pain.  She would go days or even weeks with only 6 to 8 hours sleep a night.  Then she would have several days that she would sleep maybe 14 hours a night and take 1 or 2 several hour naps.  This was very unusual since she had been sleeping through the night at about 4-5 months old and would sleep a minimum of 12 hours a night with a 1-2 hour nap.

 She was still talking at the time but she was just parroting what we were saying or imitating things she was hearing on TV but no spontaneous speech what so ever.

Her stools were loose as ever.  She had always had bouts of loose stools and were always on the soft side but she began to have actual cases of diarrhea.  I mainly contributed  it to what became her bizarre diet.  This even began to put a strain on the family because it required her to eat differently from her twin.  My husband disagreed with feeding her baby food.  He said “all the kids of the guys I work with were all eating regular table food at their age.”  Pizza, hotdogs, sandwiches, chicken nuggets, fries etc.  I told him unless they were premature twins, I didn’t want to hear about it.  I was doing all I knew to do to keep her from wasting away. 

I knew in my heart none of this was normal but I didn’t know what to do.  Every time I would bring my concerns to her Doctor I would usually get something like “That isn’t uncommon” or “A lot of toddlers don’t eat well” or “A lot of kids refused to drink their milk – Just find another source of calcium”.  "She's probably not chewing her food properly".  "Many children rock as a way to comfort themselves" etc.

Finally beginning in late February and March 2002 she began to again eat a little more age appropriate.  She was back to eating toddler type foods not what we were eating.  Now we had a new problem.  It was obvious she was not digesting her food.  She began eating everything in sight.  Clearing her plate, her sisters and needing more. 

When I undressed her at her “Well Check” appointment on April 22, 2002 (this was an oxymoron because she hadn’t been well in months!), I noticed she was very yellow looking.  I pointed it out to the Doctor and she agreed.  She ran some liver profile blood work on Hannah and it came back Hepatitis.  I asked her if it were possible that she got it from taking all the Tylenol and Motrin from her vaccination reactions.  It really didn’t occur to me at the time that it was from the vaccinations directly.  I had no idea that vaccines contained mercury.  Nor, would I accept that it was possible she got the hepatitis from hepatitis vaccine.  It really pains me to say this now, but I was still clueless that all of these things could be related to the vaccinations and her reactions to them.  I had always considered myself an educated person and had read the materials supplied by the CDC. 

I brought up all the concerns to her Doctor.  Things like the rocking, not sleeping, mal-digestion and loose stools.  She seemed to have a kind of canned response to all of it.  I even suspected she might have thyroid disease since I have one and it would explain some of her unusual sleeping, eating and bowel problems and some of the other bizarre things.  Even though she didn’t seem concerned with it I pushed to have some thyroid panels run just to make sure that wasn’t responsible with her drastic decline.  Her weight percentile rankings started to decline rapidly.

When it came time to talk about the vaccinations needed DtaP and IPV, I asked her if we should reschedule because of the apparent jaundice or liver dysfunction.  She stated that "according to the CDC it is safe to give kids with illness vaccinations".  Again, under NO circumstances should you give someone with liver dysfunction something containing mercury!  That would be absolutely asinine! 

However, I went with it thinking the CDC should know. This will be the decision that I will spend the rest of my life trying to forgive myself for.  Somewhere in my gut I knew it was not a good idea but as usual I abandoned my belief in natural health when an allopathic doctor says its ok.  This series of vaccines later became known as the straw that broke the camels back.

Immediately following the vaccinations she had her “usual” or maybe common crankiness and sleep inconsistencies that have always plagued her before.  She also had a slight fever.  But again, most of the bizarre symptoms that kept her spiraling into the depths of nothingness, made the symptoms of illness pale in comparison.

She began eating non-food items so not only were we finding undigested food we were also finding strange items in her diaper.  Things like small screws (probably from her glasses), hair, cat fuzz, strings and elastic from socks and towels etc.  Her stools were so undigested that you could write up a menu of everything she’d eaten over the last 2 days.  Her stools took on a very strange color and odor that wasn’t present before.

At this time it was like she almost entirely lost her sense of feel.  Her mouth became her third hand.  She no longer had any sense of pain.  One day in May of 2002 I saw her rock so hard on the couch and since she was half standing when she did it she hit the wall with full force.  She only got a look of confusion but nothing else.  It was almost as if she heard the thud but had no pain and wondered if she hit it at all.  The next day she had a huge welt so I knew it wasn’t just a situation of “sounded worse than it was”.

For about 6 months after her last vaccinations on 4/22/02, she didn’t speak any words at all.  No mimicking, no echoing, no spontaneous communication what-so-ever.  As a matter of fact, there was no communication, even nonverbal.  No pointing, waving, or playing so big etc.  -  NOTHING.  At the time, I didn’t find that as shocking as I do now only because Hannah’s twin was a very late talker but pretty much started speaking perfectly in full sentences when she finally did.  Also, my rationalization was that she was starting to do puzzles for the first time so maybe “she’s developing a different part of her brain”.

As engrossed, obsessed even, as she would become with spinning items or involved with a repetitive swinging, rolling, covering or uncovering an item etc., any music would trump everything.  She would drop anything she was doing if something had a song, tune, or jingle.  It was almost as if music was all she was able to hear (or listen to).  She would stand there and sway to the music in a total trance. 

She became hyper and uncooperative if we were in a public place that was too loud and at times would scream as if in pain.  She would scream in pain in the bright sunshine.  It became impossible to take her places.  Because of the putting things in her mouth and not listening or cooperating, we couldn’t leave her alone for a second.

As horrible and as challenging as these things were it wasn’t even the worst.  The worst was that our once vibrant, very smart, and extremely happy little girl was totally lost.  She was no longer able to follow a simple command.  Give Mommy your cup.  Eat your toast. Etc.   Things she once understood made no sense to her.  There was no longer any recognition of us or of what we were saying.  Hannah now had her own little world that did not involve us, including her twin sister.  The thing that to this day that breaks my heart the most, of those darkest days, was she wouldn’t look me in the eye, accept a hug from me, or the worst scream as if being tortured when I tried to hold her.

After about 10 or 11 months of excuses, denial and rationalizations for what was going on it was becoming obvious that she wasn’t going to grow out of or recover from whatever these afflictions were.  I, very reluctantly at first, finally went in search of answers.  We were referred to the Babies Can’t Wait program in Georgia.  On May 27, 2003 they evaluated and “approved Hannah for services” and found significant speech, development and behavioral delays.  On June 2, 2003 she was formally diagnosed with Infantile Autism. 

Most of my daughter’s “specialists” didn’t know (or believe) treatment options are available for autism (or other psychological disorders for that matter).  The ones who did pooh-poohed them.  They “weren’t advocates because some are difficult or time consuming”.  As parents, you know how “difficult and time consuming” it is to live with an autistic infant, toddler, or teenager! 

I knew some days Hannah was totally different from other days.  This was true even before she was diagnosed.  At the time my mother, my husband, and myself couldn’t put our fingers on what was causing these changes in her behavior.

Immediately following a necessary but reluctant course of antibiotics for a case of strep throat, Hannah developed a case of severe explosive diarrhea that would last non-stop more than 6 weeks.  It was only after we started at our alternative health NAET practitioner that I was able to discover what she was reacting to through muscle testing.  She developed an allergy to the orange juice I was using to get her supplements in her.  The practitioner we were going to wasn't the one who discovered the disruption.  I had narrowed what she was reacting to down to soy milk or orange juice.  I did this clinically through trail and error and avoidances.  Then I brought in samples for them to muscle test.  At that point they confirmed her severe weakness to the O.J.  I immediately stopped giving her O.J. and the diarrhea stopped within about 18 hours.

I learned a valuable lesson in that...  Never discount your mommy instinct.  This is why I am convinced that mothers make the best healers for their children.  Plus there is a huge advantage for mothers learning muscle testing.  Especially systematic muscle testing, since you can get to the root or source of symptoms very quickly and find out the best ways to handle them, immediately.  You won't have to schedule an appointment, go for a blood draw or some other test, then wait days, weeks or months to get results and then keep your fingers crossed with the doctors assessment of the situation.

The clinic we were spending thousands of dollars going to for NAET treatments constantly prescribed supplements that contained foods the girls were allergic too.  This was very upsetting and confusing since I couldn't tell if they were having reactions to the treatments or the supplements.  I couldn't even tell if they were getting worse or better because of the severe ups and downs.  I was constantly asking myself and the doctors "Are the reactions related to NAET corrections or the supplements"? 

I spoke to a friend about it and told him I was interested in studying NAET and or Kinesiology for myself.  Maybe then I could understand how and why the body was testing stronger indicating (the body asking for) a supplement they were allergic too.  At that point, I was trusting my alternative practitioners about as much as the traditional doctors.  My friend, after telling me of his having to have NAET clearings for 2 or 3 (rounds NOT combination corrections) for many  substances, he told me of something I could learn for myself.  He sent me the link to Health Kinesiology.  I knew right away the impact that  verbal muscle testing could have on finding appropriate treatments, so I went and studied it. 

I have learned so much about the nature of Hannah's symptoms through verbal testing.  One of the most profound discoveries I made on Hannah was learned from an experience I had chelating cadmium.  Through systematic verbal muscle testing, I learned the reason her body didn't get rid of any of her heavy metals was it thought they were essential minerals.  For example her body thought mercury was magnesium.  Magnesium it was dumping because it thought it was arsenic.  Many of her heavy metals and essential minerals were all mixed up like that.  This may be and probably is very common in autism.  It would explain why the majority of autistics have high levels of heavy metals and low levels of essential minerals.  This may also be why she did so well with epsom salt baths.  Her cells were able to soak up and use the magnesium (where it is most needed) before her body could get rid of it.

I know hearing our stories it might seem that our road to recovery has been smooth sailing.  However, there were many times of regression.  Although, it was nice to finally have the tool (systematic verbal muscle testing) to find out exactly what was causing certain symptoms.  As I told one of my best friends "I have developed this kind of strange appreciation for the regressions - I have enough experience with energy healing to know once we get past the regression, Hannah is at a whole other level of functioning." 

Since BIRT works so fast it really minimizes the regressions and usually other things are improving during the regressions.  The healing and resulting detoxing might take a few days or a few weeks but it is fairly constant.  Unlike other methods where you might have a bad day or two following a correction.  Then a good day or two in between corrections.  Then repeating the cycle over and over.  This tends to leave you with the feeling over time am I getting better or worse I can't really tell.  

Almost always if not always, regressions where caused from several things all of which came down to toxicity of some kind.  These could be from detoxing heavy metals, the toxins produced from pathogenic die-off, organic acids and other body biochemicals, industrial and environmental chemicals.  For example, after doing corrections for elements in the universal vial, she'd have symptoms like she just had an exposure to metals.  This was because essentially she had.  Once the body has been retrained to recognize metals, it will start to release them from tissues.  Therefore they will end up in the blood, liver, kidneys, lymph, brain etc.  This is also why regressions happen when doing chelation whether using natural plant chelators (which are the only oral ones I ever recommend) or drugs.  I NEVER recommend IV drug chelation treatments unless it is a matter of life and death as with a fatal dose of iron or lead poisoning.  The two healing and detoxing aids that her body would ask for time and time again to deal with these regressions was activated charcoal and magnetized clay packs or baths.  These tools helped immensely to minimize the detox and die-off symptoms that look like autistic regressions.

I can NOT even express the difference in Hannah.  Not only would you not recognize her as formerly autistic, she is one of the most inventive, imaginative, resourceful, brilliant, giving, empathetic, social and sweetest little girls you could meet.  Every time I ask myself how much better could she possibly get she reaches a whole other level.  Real soon (once I figure out how)...  I'll be putting up some video and letting you see for your self.  I'll also put up some of her diagnostic and evaluation reports to prove her diagnosis.  Yes... She was in fact autistic once.  I think you'll have a very hard time believing she was when you see the video.

I have recorded and added to the universal vials so many individual things that were disruptors for Hannah.  (BIRT training will teach you how to do this too)!  For example I recorded the energy of a fan blowing.  She used to not allow us to run the A/C in the back of our car.  She'd scream "No wind blowing, stop that wind etc."  Also, we have a window A/C in our office that she would complain was "too loud...  that scary dragon is too loud".  I recorded that as well.  The vacuum she of course had a disruption to.  Drains would cause her to get hysterical. 

One of the biggest was the sound of the piano.  This was the reason she would become obsessed with tinkling on the piano at friends and family's.  Again, either having an addiction or severe repulsion to whatever they are disrupted to.  I have since determined that auditory disruptions can produce some of the most extreme symptoms and behaviors popular ones are agitation, frustration, irritability and even aggression. 

It finally dawned on me that maybe why she becomes entranced, sways, rocks and hummed during some music and then not others was due to a disruption.  I hadn't seen Hannah have a physical stim in several weeks and then one day, when the intro to the backyardagains came on she stimmed the entire theme song.  Then as soon as it was over she stopped.  Using systematic verbal muscle testing, I discovered her disruption to piano, clarinet, and other percussion instruments in that song.  After adding those energies (along with other instruments) to the universal vial and doing a BioEnergetic Identification Reset Technique^TM (BIRT) correction, I have not seen her do a physical stim since. 

Before BIRT Hannah used to have melt downs every morning after I had to wake her up for school.  She would scream that she was cold and she would be very uncooperative.  I recorded and corrected her energy of being woken.  Now she never complains about being cold unless it really is.  Also the screaming and being uncooperative and combative in the morning have stopped.  I can't tell you what a blessing that has been!

Now after all these corrections, Hannah will ask for me to turn on the A/C in the car.  She'll sit closest to the drain in the tub and even put her head underwater.  She doesn't scream and get hysterical when we run the vacuum or garbage disposal.  The first time I turned on the A/C in our office she began to cover her ears.  Then she got a perplexed look on her face and turned around to look at it.  I asked her if it was somehow different now and this is what she said with so much sincerity and enthusiasm I could barely stand it..."Yeah, That dragon isn't scary anymore.  It's nice now."  I will never forget this event and the absolute look of amazement on her face!  I can actually take her to the grocery store now.  Before the fluorescent lights and reverberation of the tile floors would make her almost impossible to handle. 

These improvement aren't even the food allergies.  Now I can feed her anything I want without reaction.  However, she still eats very healthy and doesn't eat a lot of sugar.  Her gut is completely healed and we don't have any bouts of diarrhea or constipation or flip-flopping back and forth.  She sleeps perfectly and has had absolutely no nights waking up screaming as if in pain.  The pica (eating non food items) is gone.  She communicates just as much nonverbally as verbally which is she never quits talking.  Her understanding of things could only be described as profound.  Her imaginative play is quite remarkable. 

Only a few months ago, I would have said that Hannah might still classify as ADHD.  Now I'm not even sure she would fit in that category.  There has not been a single person who knew Hannah before and after that hasn't been completely astounded by her complete recovery.  Even people who claimed not to see something was "wrong with her" (probably because they saw a little too much of their own kids in Hannah) comment on the difference.

I can only hope if you have a loved one who has been given a sentence of Autism, you seriously consider natural health alternatives.  Especially systematic verbal kinesiology and my BioEnergetic Identification Reset Technique^TM (BIRT) protocol.

I know it is hard to get past the bizarre nature of it but some of these techniques have been used successfully for thousands of years.  Unlike those used in allopathic westernized medicine, these techniques are natural, not harmful and noninvasive.  It is just in our technological arrogance we refuse to believe that our bodies and nature provides it what it needs to heal ourselves - I was one of those people.  Fortunately I had so many mothers of fully recovered autistic children say about energy healing "IT WORKS!!!"  Ultimately, I decided that all I had to lose was a little money and time.  Money can be replaced and time will pass whether I accept my daughter's "fate" or not.  My lovely daughter's mind CAN'T be replaced!

I thank God every day for making me just open enough to go in search of the truth.  I found it and practice it every day.  I sincerely hope you will learn to as well!