Miralax and other reports

So I recently learned that many, many kids have horrible reactions to Miralax. They even have a yahoo group dedicated to "Horrible reactions from Miralax" The drug that the ped’s have been telling me, “Oh just give him more and more till he goes poop”, and when I express concern that he won’t be able to go without it, they just say, “Well, he might just have to be on it for the rest of his life”. Okay, that’s bad enough. It’s a drug, and for kids like Ben, it’s most likely being absorbed into the blood stream via what’s referred to as a “leaky gut”. But they were having me give him twice the adult dose, and what was is prescribed for? A bowel obstruction, and severe constipation. If you google miralx, you will see that ever website says that it’s NOT, and DO NOT GIVE, in the case of either of those. Also, that it should not be given for more then two weeks, and that it should not be given to children. Anyway, I had a bad feeling about it from the get go. So, were trying other things, magnesium, prune juice, and so far were doing okay. There was about a week where he didn’t go hardly at all, just little bits of hard poop here and there. But yesterday he went a lot. He seems to have gotten the impacted stuff out, and is moving it through better. We’ll see how today goes.
I still really want to do homeopathy, and found a place that is going to be much less expensive, but even that, we can’t afford right now. Were desperately trying to catch up in some way with our finances, it seems really far away. Were probably going to go down to one car soon, to make it work better. Anyway, on a positive note, Benjamin said, “I love you Mommy” all on his own last night. He has said that before, but more like he was copying me saying it. Last night, he was definitely not copying me. Why would I say, “I love you Momma” to him. :-) Anyway, it was wonderful. He’s had a cold, and he’s been constipated all week, so although he seemed to have a really good breakthrough week last week in school and speech, this week has just been okay. Hopefully today is better. He slept well and emptied his Bowell’s, but he’s still boogery. Oh well, it’s Friday, another week is apon us. That’s all for now.