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Autism and medicines/treatments

DaisyGirl

Hi,

I am posting this in the hope that someone can point me in the right direction. I am an adult female with Asperger's, I have no learning disability, but my Aspie traits are very pronounced.

I have been ill recently and have again had a real problem with being prescribed medicines which I then have side effects to. These side effects are known problems asociated with the drugs, but are classed as rare, so the Docs don't think I will get them. However, I ALWAYS have bad side effects to medicines. I once ended up in hospital because of side effects.

My first question is this, I know that many autistic people have this problem, but does anyone know of any studies, or articles by respected autism professionals where this is discussed?

Secondly, on a related theme, does anyone else have a problem in recovering from illnesses and medical treatments (like operations)? I had an operation which the recovery time until being back to normal is 2 weeks, it took me over 6 months. I also heal VERY slowly, and have repeated illnesses that are associated with childhood, like tonsilitis and ear infections (which take weeks to clear), and I have always been like this, so it is not a new things associated with stress or anxiety in adulthood.

Any information at all would be appreciated. Thanks.

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  • I too have reactions to medications, my current medication I can only take the lowest dose of, even though they said I needed a higher dose because when they put it higher I had terrible side-effects and had to reduce the dosage again.

    If you don't look after yourself by eating a healthy diet with enough vitamins etc. and get a little bit of exercise then this will impact your recovery time and healing.

    Autism seems linked with the immune system as many of us suffer immune reactions and have things like eczema so it's possible this is why you suffer that way.

    It looks like it might be quite a challenging search for specific research, having had a quick look, this might be useful:

    http://www.autism.com/index.php/pro_adversereactions

    Personally, my skin healing is good but I have a history of tonsillitis and unusual throat infections and I always seem to catch every bug going.

    I can recommend Vitabiotics Immunace Extra Protection, since taking them my colds are less severe and I don't get blocked up with them barely at all.  The reviews on them say the same by a lot of people, that either you don't get so many illnesses or they are less severe when they get ill.

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  • I too have reactions to medications, my current medication I can only take the lowest dose of, even though they said I needed a higher dose because when they put it higher I had terrible side-effects and had to reduce the dosage again.

    If you don't look after yourself by eating a healthy diet with enough vitamins etc. and get a little bit of exercise then this will impact your recovery time and healing.

    Autism seems linked with the immune system as many of us suffer immune reactions and have things like eczema so it's possible this is why you suffer that way.

    It looks like it might be quite a challenging search for specific research, having had a quick look, this might be useful:

    http://www.autism.com/index.php/pro_adversereactions

    Personally, my skin healing is good but I have a history of tonsillitis and unusual throat infections and I always seem to catch every bug going.

    I can recommend Vitabiotics Immunace Extra Protection, since taking them my colds are less severe and I don't get blocked up with them barely at all.  The reviews on them say the same by a lot of people, that either you don't get so many illnesses or they are less severe when they get ill.

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