Hi all,
Just found this board...looks like a good one! I have an 8 y/o daughter dx'd with pdd nos 2 years ago. She has recently been seeing a chiropractor and starting to make some really good improvements. I had never seen a D.C. and it was really just out of curiosity that I took her but I'm really glad that I did. On the xrays he took it showed that her very top cervical vertabrae are very crooked. I had always thought it was odd that she was extremely pain sensitive to her scalp but hardly at all from the neck down.
Anyway, I'm still trying to resolve if it's this c-spine issue that has led to her symptoms or if she was further damaged by vaccines. I say "further damaged" because she was always irritable from the moment we brought her home. OUt of my 4 kids she was the most difficult to soothe and calm down but she wasn't colicy. She could actually flip over at 2 days of age. She was also born "face-up"
I remember my surprise when I took her for her first vaccine. She never cried a bit, had maybe a tiny start of surprise and she was that way with every subsequent vaccine.
I'm wondering, did anyone here know at a very, very young age that something was "not quite right" and also have a similar experience with pain tolerance?
She was not premature, was an induced labor, was my healthiest pregnancy!
thanks,
Cara
cara,
we knew at birth some thing was wrong/different. mason was very colicky he cried for hours at a time and when we finally got him to sleep he would only sleep on his stomach and for about 45 min. when he laid on his back he flailed his arms and legs like he was lost and scared. he just now at 3.5 will sleep on his back.
mason was the opposite with shots and pain. he will cry for an hour. when he was teething he would just sit in hte floor and cry and i could not figure out why i gave him tylenol and put stuff on his gum. nothing worked till his doc gave me tylenol w/codine made him a happy baby.
iv been told children on the spectrum have different levels of pain. some have not pain and some have over sensitivity to pain. mason got stung by a bee and cried for an hour 1/2 nothing would make him happy.
my son doesn't react to pain, only surprise... so when he tumbled off things, he wouldn't cry, except when he was caught off guard. Never cried at needles.
Doesn't appear to feel hunger the same way we do.... he can't tell when he is getting hungry, only when he has pains does he know and even then, they disappear if you don't get food into him within 5 min!!! Very frustrating.
My son doesn't feel a bee sting (which is difficult since he is allergic to them!)
He tries to hurt me to see my reaction and will take risks to see if he can hurt himself. Pretends to be hurt at daycare because he will get a freezie... he is learning the right responses (like to be scared needles will hurt) but doesn't actually feel it by his reaction.
My son is extremely sensitive on his head and neck... Freaks out when he has to have hair washed, will not wash his neck, ect. OT feels it is a sensory thing since he doesn't appear to react with any other part of body.
When Luke was an infant, he was extremely difficult to soothe and he seemed to tolerate pain very well. We didn't know anything was too 'off' be/c he's our first. I'll never forget, though, when he first started to walk and he fell into a metal heat radiator, had a HUGE swelling on his forehead, and didn't shed a tear.Cara,
Welcome to the board. I have a 3 year old son with PDD-Nos. I suspected something from the time he was newborn that something wasn't quite right but couldn't put my finger on it. Adam has some decreased sensitivity but he also has increased sensitivity also. For instance...he can walk into the wall and smash his face really hard and just keep going. But if you try and brush his teeth...cut his hair or nails he will go nuts. With my son i think it depends on the type of hurt. ANyway....again...WELCOME!!
Karrie
God Bless you & your Family & keep you all safe!
Linda...aka Tony'sMom...aka MWN64
We didn't realize/accept that there was something really wrong with Andy until he was three years old. He never cried when he fell unless he saw blood. I remember one incident at daycare where he fell and hit the back of his head. He immediately got up, brushed himself off, and resumed playing. The daycare workers didn't realize he had hurt himself until they saw the blood on the back of his shirt. It took a few stitches to close the wound so it definitely wasn't a minor injury.
He got more frightened, annoyed with shots the older he got. To this day, he doesn't like them and will do just about anything to get out of getting one! He's 14.
Kim