It appears that we are back to square one......sort of. For several days after the ND dosed our daughter at the office, she was doing extremely well. Seriously, I mean to the point that she actually said, "I dunno how to describe it, dad, but I just feel better about smells. I just don't feel as anxious about them anymore." We never thought we'd hear those words out of her. To prove it, she carried the pizzas from Little Ceasars, started back to doing the dishes after each meal, and with a little coaching had started making positive comments about the smell of food (I told her to overcome these anxieties, she had to turn these negative thoughts into positive ones) and that the food smelled good, I'm starving, and so on.
Yesterday while I was out of the house, my wife called me and said, "Do you hear that in the background? Yeah, that's your daughter in her room with the door closed screaming at the top of her lungs!"
My wife had baked cinammon rolls in the oven for breakfast, so when Julie awoke and opened her room door she smelled the rolls and fell apart. Apparently while I was out of the house Saturday, my daughter had requested that my wife not make them for breakfast Saturday morning, which she didn't. I think my daughter just didn't want mom to make the rolls at all right now becuase she couldn't handle it.
It was awful to hear her screaming and stomping over the phone, but clearly she's made a significant step backward since she saw the ND.
We have an appointment with the doctor next Monday, so I thought I'd share this update with you. I have a feeling my daughter will stay on the current remedy, but move to a more potent daily dosage. We'll see.
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