February GI Visit - All is good

We went to visit the GI again today.... just the usual "I feel fine, why do I have to always come see you?" kind of visit! Jason did just come down with his first ear infection at age 5 and is on antibiotics for that, but otherwise, he's doing fine.

We talked to his GI about the newly introduced digestive enzymes, and she was supportive of that. She said they certainly wouldn't hurt anything, especially if they're just your regular non-prescription enzymes. She also supports the probiotics we introduced last summer. As well, she's good with us trying to find better vitamin and mineral supplements that are hypoallergenic.

Iron is still borderline almost normal, but not quite. That seems to be the case. So I asked her, being a Mom who reads up on things and has questions of my own, if we could take out the Cimetidine since it can cause absorption issues, especially with iron. She was all for that, so we'll take it out of his diet and see how he does. We're totally expecting him to be fine since they never made an improvement when they were first introduced 2.5 years ago! Perhaps that will help with his iron absorption. The other thing we were told to do to help with the iron is to give it with about 60 mg of Vitamin C per 0.6 ml of the ferrous sulfate. Crossing our fingers that this all works and then we can at least eliminate an unnecessary drug and the iron supplements. That would mean we'd be down to the Zyrtec and the Flovent along with regular enzymes, probiotics and vitamins/minerals. Oh yeah, and that peky restricted diet.

No scope until the summer if all goes well with the removal of the Cimetidine. And I doubt we'll revisit with the allergist until after the next scope, so that means we wouldn't be re-introducing foods into his diet any time soon.

That's the hardest part for us (me), is wondering how he's doing on the inside. He looks and feels great on the outside! I guess I should not get ahead of myself. But instead be super grateful (and I am SUPER grateful) that he feels great every day and is growing and thriving just perfectly. And when the time is right, we'll add some foods back into his diet. He's managing pretty darned good considering what he's not currently eating!

We are also continuing EFT treatment to help improve health, remove allergies, and let go of any underlying issues that might be contributing to this condition. For example, the other day I said that we want to get rid of some of his medicines... he said "I don't want to get rid of my Flovent spray!!!" Why??? Only he can really know. Perhaps it makes him feel important, special, or something. Yet, he's been asking a lot to eat chicken and other things. So hopefully he'll realize that eating chicken, etc. is more fun than having an inhaler!

And onward we continue!