Bad day always follows a ood one?

[5inthebed]

DS2 had a really lovely day yesterday, really calm, he even tried to dress himself, no major melt downs, hardly any flapping or stimming, played lovely with his two brothers.

Today, he is a mirror image of that . He has been up and down for the past couple of hours, locked DS3 (16 months) in a cupboard a few times, keeps squeezing DS1/3's heads, sniffing them, loads of hand flapping, making stimming noises, can't sit still for a minute. He has drank loads of milk and ate loads of cheese as well, which he usually does do when he is having a hard day.

Does anyone elses DC with ASD/autism do this? Do they have a really bad day after a good one?

I'm thinking of going to Paed to ask if there is any medication he can take for days like thi, as it is too much for everyone. I've packed DS1 off to my sisters so he can have a break from the constant sniffing.

The title should say good day, my G key is a bit broken.

not sure 5inthebed but could he be eating something that would affect his behaviour?

I don't think he has had anything he usually wouldn't. He has been like this since he woke up though. He's like this a lot, I don;t know why I'm so surprised, it just gets me down so much as I hate days like this, and always seem to yell and tell him off.

He kept calling me grumpy mammy

He only even wants loads of calcium when he is having a bad day. I know there is some sort of link, can't remember what though.

I did get the forms for th Sunderland test thing, but dfound them very daunting to fill out, almost as bad as the DLA ones. Maybe it would be worth me doing it though, as I can't o on like this. He is now in bed after having double dose of Circadin.

Have you looked at the treating autism website - lots of stuff about casein - protein in dairy - and gluten -protein in wheat - causing many problems for people with ASD and how cutting htem out, possibly adding in with various nutritional supplements can help...

treatingautism.co.uk

Thanks for the link, will look at it when I am feeling less stress headed

DS1 often has a bad day after a good one, I think of it like a hangover. So this weekend he did two days of playing really nicely with his cousin and no violence, screaming etc etc (leading BIL/SIL to make 'there's nothing wrong with him really' comments which left me speechless); but it's as if having pushed the boat out, tried really hard to function in an NT-kinda way, the full force of the autism comes back the next day, and he has a massive hangover -- full on violence, screaming, lah de dah, you name it.

Niminy, that makes perfect sense!

Trouble wt - so pleased treating autimsm website was helpful for your friend.

My son does that sometimes - it's as if being 'good' costs him extra energy, and then the day after he's tired. At which point I usually let him have his drug of choice (Pingu or Shaun the Sheep)

We seemed to follow a pattern of 1 step forward and 2 steps back for a bit but ds seems to have evened out a hell of a lot since he's got older.