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Originally posted by lindsay1984
reply to post by Rubinstein
Well from what I've researched this disease isn't caused by vaccines. This is a genetic disease that is either passed down from mother to child or its a random mutation in the child affected. Once we get the genetic testing back we will be able to see where the actual mutation is and we can then test me to see if I'm the carrier or not. Hopefully I am not because then my daughter could be a carrier as well and if she ever wants to have children her son would have a 50% chance of having DMD. But that's reaching far out into the future and hopefully that won't be the case.
Originally posted by lindsay1984
It's interesting to read what you just wrote. When my son received the MMR shot at 1 year he regressed in a lot of areas. Before he got the shot he was pulling up on things, trying to walk, saying about 10 words and just a bright happy little boy. The day that we got the shot though things changed. He ran 104 fever that night and the next day after we got back from the ER (where we were told the fever was in no relation the MMR shot and they didn't know why his fever was so high...) my son started acting very different. He no longer bothered to speak. He didn't even try to pull up on anything or try to walk. He wouldn't even crawl. He was zombie like at times where he would just sit there and drool. This went on until he was over two years old. I took him to the doctor numerous times only to be told he was fine, just slow at doing things. It was never mentioned to me that he might have DMD. I literally had to carry my two year old son around because he wouldn't even bother to try and walk. He wouldn't react to our smiles and clapping. He didn't walk until he was over 2 years old. He didn't potty train until 5. (My daughter walked at 7months, and was potty trained at 1 year.) His pediatrician diagnosed him with Asperger's at 4 and we thought that is what he had until March of this year when we found out he has DMD. It has been nagging at me to see what caused this since we have absolutely no family history of DMD. But like I said I don't have the genetic testing back to show if I'm a carrier or not. IF these tests come back and he didn't get this disease from me being a carrier, I will definitely dive more into what could have caused this and see if I can find any correlation to the MMR shot.
originally posted by: Rubinstein
Amish people don't become Autistic, they don't receive vaccines either.